Asus EEEPC 1008HA cannot display issue after cold boot (upgraded to Windows 7)

This issue is caused by BIOS.

If your BIOS is 0402 or before, you will hit this issue after you upgrade your Windows XP to Windows 7.

The solution is upgrade the BIOS to 1103.

http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=20&s=1&m=Eee%20PC%201008HA&os=29&ft=3&f_name=1008HA-ASUS-1103.zip#1008HA-ASUS-1103.zip

Since the BIOS 0402 is very old (There are at least BIOS release 0801 and 1001 which is newer than this BIOS) (The latest one is 1103 which is we are going to upgrade)

You will not able to use the ASUS LiveUpdate and EZ Flash.

If you use the ASUS LiveUpdate, you will just reboot the machine without update the BIOS.

If you use EZ-Flash, you will hang up at “Reading file “1008HA.ROM” ”

So, you will need to use the use a USB thumb drive to boot to the DOS and run the BIOS update at Pure DOS environment.

For the Bootable DOS USB thumb drive create and BIOS method, please check the following website for more information:

How to create a bootable DOS USB thumb drive:

http://www.technetsavvy.com/2011/08/how-to-format-and-create-ms-dos-98.html

BIOS Update:

http://www.technetsavvy.com/2011/08/how-to-revert-to-older-version-of-bios.html

After the BIOS update to 1103, the problem will be solved.

Reference:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20091209230843390&board_id=20&model=Eee+PC+1008HA&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

Asus EEEPC 1008HA cannot display issue after cold boot (upgraded to Windows 7)