Hi i have a asus 2gb surf and it wont pick up windows i tried the f9 reboot but it doesnt work, whats the best way for me to get it back to original factory state, i do not have the recovery CD im not sure where it went.

Bill,
If you havent just replaced your hard drive or formatted it, try restoring from the restore partition. I have a newer ASUS netbook, so yours i believe should restore by rebooting the laptop and repeatedly pressing the F9 key. Do not hold down the F9 key, just keep tapping it when it starts up.

Follow prompts to restore your laptop to its original configuration when you first purchased it. Make sure to back up all your data, as it will be lost along with all programs and updates that have been installed since day 1.

If you have replaced the laptop or formatted it, then youll need to either attach a USB CD/DVD ROM drive or use a USB Flash drive. That method is much more involved, but can be done as long as you have a copy of a Windows XP CD.

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Reboot the computer and as soon as it turns on start tapping F9 repeatedly. Do this immediatly after hitting the power button. If Windows Starts to load - you will need to reboot and retry.

Hitting F9 should take you to the recovery partition option. If you select to run it - it will erase everything on your laptop and set it back to factory defaults.

If you have more questions, consult the manual that you can download here: http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=20&s=1&m=Eee%20PC%20R101&os=17&hashedid=GhBUCjHj4BRr7ndV

Hope that helps!

Hi Ali.
you could try this or go to the link at the bottom and have a read up of what else you could try.
Push the computer's F9 button until the Recovery System window appears. Choose the option for Windows Setup and select Recovery. You should see a message disclosing that you will lose all your files in the process as the Recovery puts the machine back to its original factory settings.

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you can press the switch on the system and press F8 and F10 key with a small interval.so that you can go to the safe mode.on the safe mode you will have the options to restore your system.For more details feel free to contact me

The following tip is not for the same model, but for the same kind of symptoms :
http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/motherboards-bios-cpu/183116-asus-p5p800-p4-3-0ghz-random-reboots.html

reset it back to factory. u'll lose all the info in it but u can redo the pw

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Hi there, If you want to 'reboot' or re-install windows, then you will need to locate your windows CD, insert this into your Eee PC then re-start, then follow the prompts on screen to re-install windows.
Cheers.

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