alphanumeric, I agree with you, but I have already installed the asus drivers and nothing changed the situation. Because that I am trying to fix the (maybe) last error visible in my netbook. I will try again installing the drivers, anyway.
goto ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download Eee PC 1215B
and select the ATK driver. unzip to empty folder. rightclick install.cmd and run as administrator? any failures?
maybe better to start an "elevated command prompt" and go to that folder and do:
install.cmd
there's not much in that file it only does:
PNPINST64.EXE 2KSETUP.INI
Does it install succesfully? Post error messages
PNPINST64.EXE 2KSETUP.INI
What's the error message when you type that command in elevated command prompt? First "CD" to the folder where those files are.
One way around this may be to use the anytime upgrade option instead of actually installing Ultimate. It would have been easy to do originally but could be problematic now depending on whether you can restore to Starter again or not. Going back to Starter using the recovery utility should install all the original drivers and restore functionality to the buttons. It should be just the way it was the first time you turned it on. Then just use the anytime upgrade option to unlock the Ultimate features. All you should have to do is enter your Ultimate product code. The glitch in this is that installing Ultimate may have broken the link to the recovery utility when the boot record was overwritten.
from elevated command prompt:
diskpart
lis disk
list part (which one is recovery partition?)
sel part 1 (if partition 1 is recovery partition)
detail part
post output please
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