ASUS VivoBook X202E / S200E / Q200E Owners' Lounge

I think he made a mistake; from what I am seeing they all are 5136mAH. And I would guess that the '4 cell' thing for that particular ad was a typo or mistake again. I hope I am wrong though.

 

While installing an SSD, I misplaced (lost) my screws for the back cover and hard drive. Anyone know the correct sizes for these screws?

 

Missing 20GB Restore partition after issue with trying Ubuntu installation. While trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along side windows 8 from bootable USB tonight I ran into an issue. I trusted Ubuntu (which was stupid) to Install along windows 8 because it looked like it would work fine since it discovered windows during the install. It had that as the first option and it clearly said use this to boot Windows8 or Ubuntu. I've always did my own partitioning but got lazy which was stupid.

After it installed GRUB didn't come up with boot options. It was saying their is a problem with your Windows install and wouldn't go anywhere. I then proceeded to boot from the Flash drive with ubuntu to start gparted and delete the volumes linux created for ubuntu. I accidentally deleted a 20GB recovery partition while being a little haphazard. I'm assuming I couldn't recover my system now if I needed to use that option. Not sure how the recovery works? I think you hit F9 on bootup or something?

Anyway, here's a screen shot of my diskmgmt in Windows before this happened. Keep in mind I've actually migrated to SSD recently. I had 80GB of space unallocated that I was letting Ubuntu install on.

I used to have 3 recovery partitions. One 900MB , 350MB and 20 GB that I deleted on accident. DOH!

I managed to get back into windows using a special USB flash disk with UEFI and boot corrector options. That fixed my boot.ini,etc.

Thanks for any info on these partitions!

Here's how it was on my mechanical HDD that was installed>


And here's how it looks now.



And when I open the create recovery option in windows 8 it says it's missing files. I might have to clone over again!

Sucks if so but hopefully I can clone over by hooking my HDD to an external enclosure and cloning it over to the SSD that's already installed. Thanks for any tips or suggestions! I'm going to get an external enclosure tomorrow.

 

I have an S200e and just replaced the wireless card with an Intel 6235an WiFi/Bluetooth card. Since there was only one antenna, I attached it to the main plug and the wireless is great, but the Bluetooth won't hold a connection. I tested moving the wire to the other connection and lost wireless but no improvement on the Bluetooth. I followed the directions on the Intel site about installing the Bluetooth drivers before the wireless, too.
Also, I replaced the hard drive and installed Windows 7 with no issues and installed the Win 7 Intel Bluetooth drivers.
I was going to order an antenna, but now I'm not sure if it will make a difference.
Any ideas on what will fix the Bluetooth??

Thanks!

 

You may need both to get propper functionality.

 

Hi Guys, have recently purchased one of these and am finding it pretty good so far, have put a Samsung 830 256gb ssd in which is running nicely, have also updated the bios to latest 210 which went ok but now am getting the green charge light come on at 95% charge so it does not charge anymore unless you have it on when charging, when it will go to 100% but if you then restart it will be back to 95%? am not sure if it was doing this before the update, i see on the support site that 205 should have fixed this but surely the fix should be in 210 also?

am unsure now whether to try and put 205 on to see if this solves it but then would not have potential other fixes.

any ideas much appreciated

Chris

 

Going back in firmware versions could cause issues. Did you double check the bios took properly?

 

Hi, bios install seemed to go ok, no errors and is showing correct when going into bios screen, all settings were the same as before, was on 204.

maybe i should redo the install of 210?

It does charge to 100% but light goes to green at 95% and goes from 100% down to 95% very quickly.

Cheers

Chris

 

The computer does not charge when the battery is 95% or above.

 

I got this puppy last Spring in a sweet deal at Staples with a few coupons. I figure if you got Win 8 you better have a touch screen so this filled the bill nicely. I just put in a Kingston V300 240GB SSD.(another Staples deal) Took a little doing with ASUS bios and the fact that Kingston shipped the old Acronus software. Kingston Help suggested Macrium Reflect (although they won't support using it!?) Gave it a try as you can download it free,don't need to use a cd or dvd, or swapout the HD. I used windows Device Manager to partition the SSD and cloned just the OS and Data drives. Well that would only boot to the bios. I switched out drives and could see the C and D on the SSD thru the usb connector. Figured I needed to include the 1, 2 and 3 partitions and just made one large partition for the OS and data, cause i was having trouble getting Acronus to configure them to a good ratio. Left out the recovery as I have it on the HD. Re-cloned and it seems to have worked. Now have a blazing fast machine. Whew!

 

I just picked up a S200E cheap due to a cracked digitizer, you cant really see the crack but the touchscreen is disabled.
I have seen the digitizers for sale on ebay (from china) has anybody bought one and fitted it? if so how do you find its quality / function.
Can anybody point me to a guide on opening the screen? there are plenty of guides to opening the base but i cant find one for the screen side.
If anybody has done the swap is there anything i need to be wary about.
Thanks

 

Hope someone can help us. My daughter received a new ASUS Q200e for Christmas. It's been working beautifully until today. When she tries to change between apps by swiping from the left edge of the touch pad, nothing happens. Also it won't let her use the two-fingers for scrolling or right-click. We've checked under the PC and devices. Under "App Switching" and "Corner Navigation" all the buttons are in the on position.

I know we've just hit something but we can't figure out how to undo this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

i think it does not have to do with windows itself, it is more an Asus provided program, check that the smart gesture driver is installed (or reinstall it) i it should be running in the background and should have some visible icon in the taskbar (desktop mode) (i dont have my computer on hand to validate)

 

Yes the touchpad drivers are likely the cause, enable smart gestures or download the latest version from asus or the vendor if that proves difficult (eg synaptics).

 

Hi Guys, have just had an issue pop up today, my up and down keys do not work, also the esc key, was fine yesterday, have removed the back and checked the cables and all seems ok, obviously cannot just replace the keyboard. Any one else had this issue? not sure what to try

Cheers

Chris

 

I'm having power-up problems with my Q200E.

Symptoms:
If it is in sleep mode (Memory is active, PC off), it powers up every time. Also Restart works without glitch.

If it is shutdown or hibernated (Power off to all components), it will not consistently boot; it may take dozens or more power-presses to finally boot.
* Power LED on
* HDD LED indicates initial activity then goes dark
* ASUS splash screen never appears
* Unable to access BIOS (F2) or Boot Options (Esc)
It seems the odds of getting a successful boot increase if the machine is cold. Also, the issue appears to getting progressively worse.

The notebook is all OEM running W8.1 . The problem first surfaced about the same time that I upgraded to W8.1, but I think it is only coincidence because it appears to be a hardware issue.

So, anyone have a better idea what is going wrong than I do?

 

Hey guys, just bought and received an s200e. It isnt the best of deals compared to what some of you guys have. It is an asus refurb for $299. Dont know if it is still a good deal considering it is now 2/2014. Anyways, I am still testing it out to see if I want to keep it or not. I need a new laptop and have a budget of under $500. I am coming from an old toshiba satelite that is about 5 years old. I love the size of this thing. Touch screen is fun for now. I wish it was a convertible laptop though. Oh well

Read most of this thread and wanted to confirm a couple things,
1) I am not liking the touch pad 100% yet. I have a habit of resting my index on the left button while moving the pointer with my middle finger. This sometimes causes the pointer to freeze for a second because of having two fingers. Anything I can do for this? At Least if there is a way to ignore touch inputs where the buttons are. One post said to install the samsung series 5 touch pad drivers. What difference will it make? This link https://mega.co.nz/#!KANTGYQQ!McLjLwLz0bxVQu7zY0vmS1BVNqMOH6lyaWXBijarmGs

2) My battery sometimes for some reason is not calibrated properly. It will tell me 100% is remaining then drop to 65 immediately. Then when 35% is remaining, it would shut off. Does not exhibit these symptoms all the time though. What can I do?

3) I get less bars on my wifi compared to my other laptops. When the others get full 5 bars, I get 3 or 4. If I upgrade the wifi card to a 6235 will I get better wifi reception in addition to bluetooth and WIDI?

4) Is it fine to block the bottom vents? The fan and cooling is by the hinge right? I dont feel any air coming from the bottom. I am concerned about all this heating and throttling talk on this thread. Something to be concerned about? How can I keep track of it?

5) Which power setting do I leave it on while using battery? I am confused on what the difference between power4gear battery vs battery saver vs balanced . Main thing I notice is when it is on power4gear battery, I cannot play youtube videos. It becomes very choppy and unwatchable. balanced mode fixes that


Are there any other model laptop I should consider aside from the s200e? that is under $500? I need it to be light and portable and decent battery


Thanks in advance guys!

 

Ok, had a longer reply but for some reason I had a black screen of death and crashed???

Your comment nailed the touchscreen for me, it was a novelty for the first couple of weeks and since I almost never use it, I believe the touchscreen is not needed on a laptop, on a hybrid convertible tablet/laptop ok, but not on a laptop for me. With a $500 budget you can get a convertible laptop, see comments at end...

The ASUS in many ways for the price is a good little laptop, battery life sucks, throttling will happen period it may or may not be a problem for you, trackpad is great & annoying at the same time, but overall its pretty decent.

In someways the touchpad is very good and responsive, unfortunately for me it is just a little bit too big and I accidentally touch the top edges fairly often making it go crazy and driving me nuts... I would be interested in hearing how the samsung drivers work.

Don't block the bottom vents it will make the throttling worse, your computer is probably throttling even if you don't notice it.
- For temperature monitoring I like CPUID Hardware Monitor (also have battery charge level and wear)
- For basic CPU MHz info CPUID CPU-Z is a good program

If you want small light, convertible take a look at the Lenovo Yoga 11s, you can find refurbs for ~$500 or watch Lenovo's outlet site for a good deal to pop up and you can get: i5, 4GB, 128GB SSD, bluetooth, longer battery life...
- scratch and dent listings will get you the best price
- lenovo's outlet stock and price change fairly frequently

 

Thanks for the reply!

I am going to test it out for a couple more days before i decide on keeping it or returning it. I am a bargain hunter and am not sure if a better than $299 for a refurb can be had especially since this laptop is a couple years old now. although I could not find another similarly spec-ed laptop for the same price.

one of my main concerns now is the throttling flaw of the laptop. few posters are pretty much saying this has a crippled processor that will always run slower no matter what because of the flawed heatsink and because of that, it is not even worth $300 new. I also cannot avoid blocking the bottom vent because that would require only using the laptop on a flat surface. 90% of the time I am using it on my lap, or couch etc, which ends up blocking the vent. So heat would be bigger issue for me. At the same time, I am not a heavy user though, I mainly browse, watch videos (HD) , office work, and download content. So I might not notice the throttling. but, If this i3 is crippled, i might as well went with a baytrail atom and enjoyed the extra battery savings? If I watch an HD movie and browse, my temp reaches 80* C . this is under CPUID HW THRM temp. but under CPU Z, under core speed it still says 1795mhz, sometimes toggles to 800. Does this mean I am not throttling? How can confirm throttling happens or will be an issue for me?


I checked out the lenovo outlet, they have the thinkpad twist for 479. still iffy about the price but I will check out some more. Aside from the s200e, I was set on the dell venue pro 11. I just wished it had more than 2gb ram.

 

I'm a bargain hunter as well, I got my S200E from staples for <$150 after coupons and rebates, for the price the ASUS 11.6" is hard to beat...
Lenovo Outlet just dropped their prices on a lot of models this morning and there are some good deals to be found...

Unfortunately throttling is a real problem and will affect different users at varying levels, you may or my not notice it...
For me 95%+ of what I do throttling is not a problem, I do mostly office work, browsing, mild photoshop editing and other basic stuff, I don't game on it, and not much in terms of video streaming. I do use it on my lap a lot, but when I'm in bed I just have a book about the size of the laptop I set it on and have no issues...I'm not sure how much it would actually change the temp by blocking the bottom vents fully?

To find out if your laptop is throttling, log the temp and cpu speed data, while playing an HD video or something to load the CPU and then graph it or look at the MHz in relation to the temp...

I use "Core Temp" to log CPU MHz and temp data
- note Core Temp saves the log file in its program folder:
i.e. C:\Program Files\Core Temp\CT-Log 2014-02-10 12-09-06.csv

I had looked at throttling on my computer a few months ago and posted some results of temp vs. MHz, post #187:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...-s200e-q200e-owners-lounge-4.html#post9382841

 

Thanks, I am checking out lenovo stuff now, just a bit scared, lots of people on SD talk about their quality on scratch and dent being a hit or miss and their return policy is not that great these days. No return shipping label and 15% restocking fee. I am mostly interested in the yoga 11. Not sure if I want a scratch and dent ivy bridge for 480 or haswell refurb for 595. Btw, yesterday there was a deal on the surface pro 1 for 499 + tax shipped new. regret missing out on that deal, I might have bought that to replace the s200e . Now it is 680 I think.


I have 20 days return window on the s200e and have come across this site regarding the cooling issue of the s200e x202e FIX for Asus Vivobook X202E, Q200E, or S200E laptop CPU overheating and thermal throttling | Random musings from a heavily caffeinated computer business owner

Is it something that is promising? He states his results after mod on a burn in test maxed at 85 C, and before mod 89-91 C Doesn't seem like much of an improvement but the screetshot he took shows ranges of 45-46 C, a little confused about what he means by that then. My laptop has never been below 50s I think

 

I just picked up a refurb of this machine and tonight will be attempting to upgrade it to a 240GB Crucial SSD.

The software and cable I purchased is the Apricorn.

My question is this. I have read through the posts here but when it comes to doing the clone, which partitions should I bring over and what size should I make them. The device itself has a c:\ with windows, an empty d:\ for data (planned to skip) and like 3 other recovery type partitions.

Note that when I tried to backup the recovery partition it was greyed out though.

Could use a little hand holding with this one.

Also - is there a list anywhere with all the bloat ware that's safe to remove? It's everywhere on this thing.

Thanks.

 

I think as long as you know what model you want Lenovo outlet shouldn't be an issue, if there is an actual problem with the laptop the outlet will take it back with out the restocking fee, and for the most part I have heard very good things about the scratch and dent models and the couple I have picked up have been great...

Yesterday I missed a Yoga 11s i5, 8GB 256GB SSD for $595, good deals pop up you just have to manage to grab one...

I had looked at the "throttling fix" a while back, that is ALOT of thermal pads to stick on...
It doesn't seem like that good of a fix, and you should have to fix something right out of the box...

I will say I have been watching my temps again after reading all this, I also tried some video streaming again and I think my temps are getting worse with age
- My laptop now seems to be normally running in the low 60C range almost all the time
- streaming hulu, auto settings, 78-83C, mild throttling
- youtube 1080 test videos, 88-91C, with HEAVY throttling, only reason temp doesn't go higher is it is throttling the CPU so much...

 

If you are upgrading to a SSD I would 1st try to do a clean install of windows 8 and see if the on-board WIN8 key "takes"

I installed a kingston V300 240GB and just used the regular WIN8 DVD from a retail package to do the install and it recognized my key, I don't know if I was lucky in that fact but it worked for me and then I only loaded up the drivers I needed and there was no bloatware to fight with...

 

Thanks. The problem is I don't have a windows 8 DVD - just the version installed on the machine. Is it possible to burn an ISO from a download from Microsoft. Any idea where that would be located?

 

crap, I was hoping the temps wouldn't get worse. I was trying to convince myself to stick with it, especially after reading about the thermal pad mod. I just ate into some of my laptop money with a dell venue pro 8 refurb sale today @ 140 for a 64gb.

are you well versed with the yoga series? had a few questions and didnt want to dirty this thread with off topic posts. but could not find the PM button. anyways, they still have yoga 11s i5 haswell 4gb 128 ssd 595$ refurb

 

Just as an epilogue to the above post. I installed the SSD after cloning it with the Apricorn software. Everything seemed to work just fine. I did manually resize the partitions. After installing the ssd (the case is a pain to get off), it recognized everything and the allowed me to upgrade to 8.1 without issue. The differences in performance are highly significant. The machine is much more useful, whereas before it was really struggling to do anything.

 

I've been looking at the Dell venue pro 8 as well, that's a nice deal you found on the refurb!
As for the Yoga 11s I've only played with them for a while in the stores nothing long term, the little i've seen they look nice.
I'm not in a hurry so I think I'm just going to wait for another sub $600 Yoga 11s w/8GB and a 256GB SSD to show up and hope I can manage to grab it...lol

Glad to hear you got it up and running, the SSD makes a big difference
I know you can save the Windows 8.1 ISO file with a little work...

 

If you have an upgrade key you can download it from Microsoft directly.

 

I picked up a yoga 11s from best buy just to try it out. I am liking it a lot more than the s200e so far. things seem snappier on it. temps are nice and cool in the 40s, maybe 50s if I watch an HD video with me blocking the vents in tablet mode (easy to block vents in tablet mode)

The yoga 11s you saw for under 600, was that an ivy bridge or haswell? The one I am using now is a haswell and is giving me about 6 hours of battery life doing light tasks. I am guessing the ivy will be one or more less hours. I might go for the haswell i5 4gb 128ssd in the outlet for 595, but I am waiting to see if it will go down in price. Still a little rich for me but I like the laptop a lot. you said they recently lowered the prices, how often does that happen?

 

I got an S200E for cheap to play around with. Throttling is not an issue on mine, maybe due to an weak Celeron 1007U CPU. Mine is manufactured june 2013 and came with latest bios.

Positive:
Decent keyboard and touchpad.
Good build quality and feel
Good speakers for the size.
Cheap!
Full win 8 (not win RT like on my yoga 11)

Negative:
Whenever HDD is working it lags.
Fan spins even when just surfing internet.
Screen is mediocre.
Even old games can't run properly on this slow celeron 1007U CPU.
Poor battery runtime ~3hrs of websurfing only.

Overall satisfied since the price was low (final sale I guess, no more in stock now).

 

I think most of you don't truly understand what the throttling issue is. The cooling on this laptop is inadequate. Instead of fixing the problem by using a better cooling system (like a heat-pipe and/or heat-fins), ASUS decided to try to hide the problem by having the BIOS throttle (slow-down) the CPU whenever it reached dangerous temperatures.

Yes, before the MOD and after the MOD, the full-load temperatures are almost the same. The difference is, before the MOD, full-load was at 800MHz. After the MOD, he is claiming it is 1.8GHz. If you do the math, that's more than a 100% speed increase.

I was actually thinking of a cleaner way of doing a MOD like adding heat-fins to the fan. This way you're moving heat out of the laptop case (not leaving it in there), and it looks nicer since you wouldn't be able to really see the MOD. But, I have to say his MOD is definitely simple and looks like it gets the job done. Kudos.

 

Well just a quick update after talking with ASUS technical support they wanted me to send in my laptop to "fix" the overheating issue under warranty, they wouldn't elaborate as to what they were going to do. I am just wondering how long they are going to take to complete the process...

For reference over the last several months the normal temps have been rising to the point where playing an HD video it would hit 85-90C, with massive throttling, it wouldn't go higher because at that point it was throttled to 800MHz. The laptop did have a SSD installed.

joezx14 - do you have anymore impressions on the Yoga 11s laptop?
If its going to take ASUS over a month to get me my laptop back I might pick one up, I'm borrowing a DELL i3 15.6" inspiron and it is so heavy

 

Ok, update on ASUS warranty support for overheating...

2/16-2/18 - contacted ASUS with overheating problems as my warranty was running out, they had some problems with their RMA data base, said to call back again to set up an RMA
2/19 - ASUS issued RMA #
2/21 - shipped in laptop to ASUS
3/10 - laptop was retuned (I was out and couldn't open it till the weekend)
- they replaced the CPU fan/heat sink assembly
- and scratched the bottom of the laptop up
(2nd time ASUS messed up; my <1 month old 2013 Nexus 7 came back with an old scratched back plate and other scratches)

Before the fan/heatsink was replaced I had given up trying to watch any videos because the temp would get high fast; 85-90C; and throttle the cpu badly with any video…

Temperatures are now sort of better, I can play videos on the laptop but it is still hot and throttles the cpu...

and if I plug into my TV (1080) with the HDMI it gets really HOT
- It was really cold this morning, 59F ambient temp:
~79-82C - youtube steaming test 1080 video, nothing else running
~82-87C - streaming hulu high quality video; throttling from 800-1400 MHz, nothing else running

I called ASUS support and spoke quickly with an disgruntled, angry phone rep; basically told me my warranty was running out (I know) and for the next service I would be charges for any repairs. I told him that is still was running hot; he said the laptop was not a multimedia computer and NOT meant for multitasking and heavy video playback

I'm going to try ASUS again today or tomorrow and see if I can get a nicer rep to talk too.
At this point I think I'm going to get the laptop fixed up the best I can and then sell it, maybe I can get $200-250?

 

I bought an ASUS Q200E in March 2013. 6 months later the laptop started to shutdown randomly. I'm a computer technician, so ruled out viruses and spyware. Until this day I can't find the reason of the problem. Also, I started having trouble turning on the laptop. I press the ON button but the screen remained black (ruled out graphic card problems) The only thing I can think of is a problem with the motherboard. Asus asks me to send the computer all the way to California, I have to pay $35 for the shipment, and since it 1 year has passed along, I'm not sure if the will make valid the warranty.

 

Do you have 4G RAM or did you up it to 8G, as well as swapping to a SSD? Can you give me a reference of, "what you can do now, that in setup before caused it to be bogged down?" Thanks. I am running vbox LAMP Stack in Ubuntu 14.04 on my 8.1 host. Was an 8 laptop, I just bought for good price specifically for this proj. I have already been compelled to restore and even reset 8.1 OS, installed all BIOS updates, & I removed the ASUS bloaters. Due to persistent radical reductions in capabilities and speed after the upgraded OS, I hope to learn here of the best option (s) for the price to boost my device until I get this dev project done!!!

Spent $230 & willing to spend another ~$250. (finish proj in 10 more weeks, and I need a more tempo/ "sanity"...[Asus x502c w/[email protected] Celeron 64bit/ 4G]
1) I can put 8G Ram card in (easy enough). Is adding SSD capable to improve function considerably too?
<Or should I>
2) eBay/sell this laptop, and put $400-500 on better laptop bundle??

(Just let me know if I need to put this in a new topic....)

Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk

 

Hi all.

Apologies: I'm a total newbie, and as such I just can't find how to create a new post. The FAQ presumes that people will know how to perform this operation.

I have an Asus X200 CA, which I just took out to the library for the first time. In total contrast to other laptops I've had, it died re. wifi connection -- no go! Does anyone possess the occult knowledge on how to open it up? I find the Asus site even more impenetrable than this one.

Thanks in advance!

 

my x202e idle 60 degree, is this normal?

 

Bought a S200E (X202E on the underside) with the 3rd gen i3 for £100 as it had a cracked digitizer. Its a cracking little laptop for this price! Idle was around 70c and a re-paste has brought it down to 60c with MX5 (using OpenHWmon). The stock paste job was a joke and there was enough paste in there to drown a small child. Equally, the heat sink is next to useless, I'm very tempted to pick up another one of these on the cheap and see what I can hack up as I've got some old small heatsinks lying round. The guide for adding the thermal pads will probably be my next stop though.

I'm still going to replace the digitizer but not looking forward to it as will need a heat gun to separate it from the frame, trying to do this on the cheap so buying a new frame+digitizer is out of the question as they cost nearly as much as I paid for the laptop to start with!

The laptop is for my other half who only really uses FB, online shopping and occasionally Word. Nothing strenuous so I have throttled the CPU to 80% max clocks, this keeps the thermals a lot cooler under load and she hasn't ever needed the extra grunt. Her last laptop was a Acer 5810 with an anemic 1.4 Core Solo so just having 2 cores is a massive upgrade. On basic usage gets around 3+ hours which I consider fine for the price. She has a Lumia 1520 for when the battery runs out.

All in all, I am very impressed with this little machine, last time I used something this small it was an Atom Netbook and I have been put off those for life. The touchpad, speakers, build quality and price of this machine is fantastic. The downsides as everyone else has noted are the screen, battery, HDD and heatsink.

 

i have a problem with my x202e , It work fine until one day i turn it off, next day i tried to turn it on and nothing, the screen is off, it turns on the bulb light, the hdd light and wireless light, when on the ac adapter battery light is orange, i remove hdd, wifi card an even battery and the problem remains, the warranty is not an option because im out of u.s. atm. you can see a video here: Problem asus vivobook x202E "dead" - YouTube

 

I just bought a Q200e. I recieved it in the mail and unwrapped it. I plugged it in pushed the power button and it the lights blink but no display. Just a black screen. what should i do.

 

Anybody know if this laptop is compatible with Windows 7? I installed windows 7 on the hdd and now it's not recognizing it.

 

Its probably a UEFI issue. Google "uefi windows 7" and you will see several solutions. A quick glance at this user's post seems to address the issue: http://superuser.com/questions/676249/clean-install-of-windows-7-pro-64-bit-on-a-uefi-with-gpt-laptop Best of luck to you.

 

HI,

My Q200E used over 1 year and recently the harddisk dead and cannot recovered, so I re-install another SSD, the problem is I do not have chance to make the recovery DVD, also I try to install the new win7 with USB but won't work.
Please help me on this.

Thank you so much!!

Albert

 

Hi, does anyone happen to have a copy of the recovery partition (Q200E)? I upgraded to a smaller SSD without making my own first and now need to factory reset it.

 

if any one can upload an image for the recovery usb for X202E created by "create recovery pin" option in windows will be very helpful cuz i accidentally deleted the recovery partition
thanks in advance

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Asus-VivoBo...-Paste-13NB00L1AP0502-Excellent-/301286024030

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GENUINE-ASU...atSink-13GNFQ1AT010-35EX2TMJN20-/200967726599


does anyone have this heatpipe version of a sink vs the flat plate one? curious if it is processor specific or not... I have to imagine one of these is better than the other...

http://www.asusparts.eu/Asus-13NB00L1AP0502
X201EV TH MOD ASSY
Part number
13NB00L1AP0502
Fits to:
Asus Notebook S Series S200E
Asus Notebook X Series X202E
Asus Notebook X Series X201E

http://www.asusparts.eu/Asus-13GNFQ1AT010-2
X202E FAN MOD ASSY
Part number
13GNFQ1AT010-2
Fits to:
Asus Notebook S Series S200E
Asus Notebook X Series X202E
Asus Notebook X Series X201E

 

I kept stumbling across this forum while looking for certain things about my laptop, the Q200E with the Ivy i3. I bought it from Best Buy almost a year ago to replace my old Macbook that kicked the bucket a week before finals week. I've put serveral operating systems and hard drives into this computer so I figured I would give my input on this laptop.

I had installed a 128GB Samsung 830 into my Macbook which was dual booting into OSX and Ubuntu 12.04. I decided to replace the hard drive in the Vivobook with the Samsung 830.

As I tried to copy the recovery portion of Windows 8 or mirror a flash drive "by the book," I had found out that somehow the little laptop had deleted its recovery partition. So there was no way to back up the drive to put it on the SSD.

At this point, I had had enough of Windows 8 and decided to run Ubuntu 12.04 only on the SSD with no other operating system to dual boot. I discovered that the touch screen worked pretty well with Ubuntu and was pretty happy for awhile. Ubuntu ran with no problems for the better part of this year.

Being an engineer, I needed to run some Windows applications through VMWare or install them to the computer. I had my tower computer but it was not practical to bring that to class. Therefore I needed a dual boot of a Windows distro to get VMWare to run (I didnt want to try to get it to run on Linux, too much work when I can just dual boot).

By this time Ubuntu 14.04 had come out and I happened to have a copy of Windows 8 that worked. I dual booted them together without flaw, the computer worked great. Ubuntu didnt need any special things to run and everything worked, even the wireless. Windows 8 was good as well, but again I grew tired of it.

I was then presented with a Windows 7 OEM install, and decided to perform another dual boot. By this time, the laptop had been through 4 hard drives through changing and stuff; none of the hard drives actually broke. It is still running a Samsung 128GB, but it is running the 840 instead.

I decided to install Windows 7-64 Bit with a dual boot into 14.04 (Ubuntu is stellar for multitsking in class for real). I am currently typing this review/comment on Windows 7 on the Vivobook and it works absolutely stellar. It boots into Windows faster than my tower computer does (2500K/Mushkin 240GB) and is extremely fast. Faster than my old laptop that was recently upgraded with a Samsung SSD (i5-430M). I can even get it to run Hearthstone, which actually runs with the touchscreen.

So if you have any questions about the laptop and the operating systems it might run and the upgrade to the SSD, I can answer some questions on that.

I am overall happy with the purchase of this laptop, but there are some downsides. I'm just gonna make a pros and cons list.

Pros:
-Laptop is quick with the i3-3217U
-4GB of RAM is plenty
-Natively works with quite a few operating systems
-Sturdy build quality, not like cheaper plastic laptops
-Very potable as well
-Keyboard is very nice to type on for a laptop of this size
-Hard drive is replaceable
-EDIT: Speakers are pretty good too for a little budget laptop.

Now for the cons:
-Cooling is very poor.
-Battery life isnt as great as one would expect (I get about 4hrs of classtime on a reasonably low brightness)
-Stock power cord is not very long and broke on me (have since upgraded)
-Wish mic and headphone ports were separate
-Battery charges very very slowly

Overall, the pros of this laptop have outweighed the cons, and I believe this is the best laptop I have ever had the pleasure of owning. Very reliable and works great! If you need a portable laptop that is pretty quick and is reliable and problem free, this is the laptop for you (I'm sure they have a newer model by now though).

EDIT: The descendant of this laptop looks like the D550CA, same processor with 6GB of RAM. Or the X550CA with the same processor and RAM with a smaller hard drive. The K200MA and X200MA have the Celeron but are similarly priced.

 

I recently bought a second hand X202/S200e laptop, and it is really nice for the size, I do have a couple of questions, which replacement charger did you get and does the battery charge slowly because of the replacement charger or has it always been like that even with the original charger? I ask because the charger that came with my X202 is a replacement brick charger, much less portable than the original asus one, and i find that it charges ridiculously slowly as well, which is rather annoying at times.
Thanks

 

It charged slow before as well, but it might actually charge slower with the replacement charger, I havent really done a comparison. My guess is that the replacement charger generally charges slow so it will be able to charge all laptops regardless of batteries, which makes some sense.

I am using a Targus replacement charger.