EEE PC 900 Update Bios. 900.ROM not found on USB device!

Updating the EEEPC 900 bios Rom.

Note1. This has only been tested on the EEEPC 900. Not any other variations.
Note2. The Partdisk solution didn't work and resulted in the bios updateing reading the 900.ROM then printing "not found on usb device!".



With:
1. Check the current BIOS version, press F2 on start up to enter bios. Then exit.
2. Connect a usb device (USB Stick or hdd)
3. Device formatted to fat16 & primary size less than 2gb.

• WARNING: BE CAREFUL TO NOT FORMAT THE WRONG DRIVE.
• Download and use RMPrepUSB with the following settings.
• 1. Partition size 128.
• 3. Bootable Options: FreeDOS
• 4. Filesystem: FAT16 Boot as HDD
• 5. ensure Copy OS is ticked. (may not be needed)

4. Get the latest Rom, correct for your 900 device, from Asus' website.

5. Open the rom zip, renamed to 900.ROM, copy to the usb device root.

6. Press the eeepc's power button, and hold ALT + F2 to enter the bios update screen.

7. The bios update screen will see the 900.ROM and automatically update. Once done press power button.

UK Alternate Numbers

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Using Remote Desktop

1. Start -> Run, type Remote Desktop Connection, press enter.

Note: if you get a popup "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer."
 
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2. Enter the URL or IP of the computer host to connect to.

Note: if you cant connect and get this popup




On the host computer you wish to remote desktop in to
Right mouse click "My computer".
Select properties in the popup menu.
Select the Remote tab.
Click "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer"


3. Enter the user name  & password of an account on the host computer.

Note if the account does not have a password then you will get:
"Unable to log you on due to restrictions"



start the Group Policy Editor: Click Start, select Run, type gpedit.msc, then return. 
Open Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options\Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only.
Double-click Limit local account use of blank passwords to consol logon only 
Click Disabled, then OK. 

4. If you can't copy/paste a file to the remote desktop and see the c: drive in explorer.

1. Close your session. 
2. In the Remote Desktop Connection window, click Options. 
3. Click Local Resources tab, 
4. Under Local devices and resources click More
5. Enable Smart card.
6. In the windows list enable Drives

5.To shut down a remote computer. 

1. start -> run, type shutdown /i, press enter.
2. click Add, type computer name.
3. put anything in the comment box so the OK button becomes enabled. 
4. Take the timer off. Hit OK.

Windows PopUp message: This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer.

Symptom:
Running an app and getting a popup box titled "Restrictions"stating:
"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please Contact yout system administrator"

Cause:
There is a restriction in the Group Policy.

Check:
Go to start -> run.
Type Edit Group Policy. Press enter.
In the Local Group Policy Editor, go to User Configuration-> Administrator Templates -> All Settings
Sort by State column by clicking on the heading.
Look at the enabled items, is "Don't run specified Windows Application" there? if not end here.
If it does exist then right mouse button click for the popup menu.
Select edit.
Find the options area, press the show button.
Investigate what each application does here and consider if it affects what you're trying to run.
I.e If mstsc.exe is there then Remote desktop wont run.

Resolution:
After determining the program to remove from the list:
If its the only one then select Not Configured. Thats it.
If theres several and you want to remove one application, then open regedit.exe.
Goto: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explore\DisallowRun
Remove the application entry from there.
 
 

Pull installed apk from device to PC

1. connect device
2. open command prompt (start -> run -> type: cmd)
3. find the package name by typing: adb shell pm list packages
4. find the package path by typing: adb shell pm path com.example.someapp
5. adb pull /data/app/com.example.someapp-2.apk

OpenSSL VisualStudio 2010 x86

1. Install Perl
2. Make folder C:\opensslbin 
3. Download https://www.openssl.org/source/
4. Extract to C:\openssl
5. Open prompt cd to c:\openssl
6. Run:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
perl Configure VC-WIN32 no-asm --prefix=C:\opensslbin
ms\do_ms
nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak
nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak install   

The built libs will be in C:\opensslbin



http://developer.covenanteyes.com/building-openssl-for-visual-studio/