Comments on: Installing Windows 7 on Fujitsu U810, U1010, U2010, U2020

By: DH

DH — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:11:08 +0000

I have been using Vista (tweaked) since I bought my U810, christmas 2 years ago.
This week I decided to try Win7 (Pro, OEM, SP1) after reading everything I could find about how to do it.
I’d like to thank the folks who have taken the time to figure this out – it went smoother than I feared.

However, I have not been able to get Auto-rotate to work. It rotates fine by the button, but does not AUTO-rotate when you swivel the lid like it used to in Vista. I tried the video drivers mentioned, but it didn’t seem to do anything. Not a huge deal as I rarely swivel the screen, but would be nice to work it out.

I also have an odd issue with Bluetooth, which I will try to explain.

At first I was just using the Microsoft bluetooth drivers that auto-installed with the OS and they seemed to work just fine. That is until I hibernated my system after using the bluetooth (headphones). I’d listen to music or whatever (VLC or WMP) and then stop listening, turn off the headphones and when I was done with the PC, I would hibernate it. Come back and want to listen to music and whilst the system thinks it is sending a signal to the headphones, it never arrives at the headphone, yet I can go into properties and “test” the sound and get the test signal to tinkle in my ear.
I tried it with “Sleep” instead of hibernate and same deal. Yet if I restart the system, all is well until I hibernate. But I am not going to restart my system every-time I want to use my headphones. I’ve tried both the U810/1010 Vista drivers and the 1010 Win7 drivers with no better results.
One thing I noticed is that the Win7 bluetooth, even with the real drivers (as opposed to Microsoft drivers), is missing the “Quick Connect” option and there seems to be no way for the user to “Connect” though there is a “Disconnect” in the fly-out. But even when I hit disconnect, and tun off the headphones, if I go into properties, it says the headphones are connected, which I’m thinking might be the issue – the system is not recognizing that the headphones have been powered off and are NOT connected…

So would anyone have any ideas or solutions? Has anyone noticed this issue themselves?

By: bobg

bobg — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:26:59 +0000

Speaking of SSD’s, my 60 Gb Renice K3VLAR PATA finally arrived and a U820 and an Asus R2h with a 2GB upgrade are one their way.

Thanks Andre for allaying my fears over the limitations on the typical older technology drives. The K3VLAR may not be a speed demon, but it’ll live nicely in one of my UMPC’s.

Hmmm, which one deserves the K3VLAR I wonder? :O)

By: Andre Beckedorf

Andre Beckedorf — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:56:32 +0000

1.8″ PATA HDDs are slow. These drives are all 512 bytes per sector, same goes for most other HDDs sold today. You only need to take care of the partition alignment with (MLC) solid state drives or the newer 2+ TB drives that are explicitly 4KB per sector. So, no need to worry.
However, I would recommend getting one of the PATA SSDs as these are way faster and more durable than those slow 1.8″ HDDs. Check here: http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2011/04/25/upgrading-the-fujitsu-u2010-with-a-new-120gb-ssd/

By: bobg

bobg — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:08:30 +0000

Well the ATA controller shows up as UDMA 5 capable with a HD throughput disk test averaging 15 MB/sec — seems about right.

Still, I’m unsure given what the System Information reports as to whether the previous owner of my u810 actually formatted the Partition Starting Offset on a misaligned sector boundary.

I know the info is there. I just don’t know to what extent of a performance hit there might be on a Win7/XP Pro tablet dual boot system I’m trying to set up on the U810.

I’m still fuzzy on what it all means and I’ll eventually chase down the answers, but can someone please clue me in on what I might be overlooking here given what the System Information report states?

By: bobg

bobg — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:48:28 +0000

Well I finally got all the drivers installed but opted out of installing the fingerprint scanner — disabled it. So all is well with Win7 and my u810.

There’s one thing tho that’s been troubling me. When I checked System Information the Toshiba- MK4009GAL ATA Device (standard fixed disk drive) reports 512 Bytes/Sector. I did a fresh install of Win7 over a previous OS. I’m not sure, but shouldn’t Win7 optimize drives at 4kB/sector by default?

Also, the Partition Starting Offset value is 32,256 bytes. Is there an block alignment issue with that value that might slow down disk access?

I’ve got other questions but I’ll need to do more research on the possible DMA and PIO issues.

I’m pretty much a noob on these matters, so any wisdom would be much appreciated.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:25:26 +0000

I installed win 7 works fine but wish I had just kept XP which also was great and I was a more familiar with, less tweaking for this set up! If you do install Win 7 follow instructions above EXACTLY and will work.

By: bobg

bobg — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:57:30 +0000

Sorry, I meant that last paragraph to be a question that I would like some feedback on. Thanks.

By: bobg

bobg — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:45:58 +0000

Maybe I’m expecting an answer for too broad a question that I’ll have to find out myself. Fair enough. Having installed OEM XP’s in the past, Vista and Win7 are not hobbyiest friendly these days I’m told. So I’m reluctant to buy the Retail Full install for Win7 (about $200) and realize it’s too bloated for the u810′s 1gig of ram and CPU speed. But people here seem to be running Win7.

Are the gain’s worth it over the previous two OS’s.

By: bobg

bobg — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:15:37 +0000

I’m getting a u810 very soon in the mail. I have questions on best OS.

Which is appropriate for the fastest in memory program (no file writing to disk):

XP Tablet, Vista, or 7?
32 bit or 64 bit?

Primary software I’ll be using: Delorme Topo.

By: ash jones

ash jones — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:24:03 +0000

opps i forgot to mention. it does do something i.e. the busy icon but the screen just does not rotate!

Wonder if its becuase i got the win 7 button driver & utils for the u2020 on my u810/u1010