CF-29ETKCWKM - Mouse crazy

I got a trade in in my shop for a local private investegator that traded in a CF-29ETKCWKM for a minty, shiny CF-30.

Anyways: Quick back story: The CF-29 has always worked just perfect (Mark over at Renew PC sold it to him years back). Touchscreen worked and everything. Anyways, I went to reload the damn thing and the mouse is jumping around like it's on crack! So I thought to simply clone it from the image I have (instead of manually reloading it), and that doesn't work either.

I've removed all RAM and am running on the on-board 256MB. I also tried disabling the touchscreen AND the touchpad and it still jumps around all over the place. It is simply un-usable in it's current state.

Before I go ripping the damn thing apart to re-seat ribbon cables and yada yada, is there anything else I can try?!?!?

Why would it just start doing this now after that it's been freshly loaded and worked fine before it was reloaded!?!?!?

 

Have you looked into disabling the GPS?
CAP

 

RoB.. I thought you know already the coz/reason of a jumping mouse! The dog is trying to catch him, Lol


ohlip

 

I agree GPS driver. Gotta reboot until it comes off the crack and then find the updated driver. Do a search on here I figured it out a couple years back. There should be a link.

Brian

 

Oh yeah, there are lots of links. Having a Proton Christmas Party Rob?
Start here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/207908-jumping-mouse.html
CAP

 

GPS registry patch <<<<<key words.

 

It could be one of two reasons

Sudden violent movements ?
Sounds like it's on it's last legs
Sort of like something about to die,the last death throes
I have seen a few Toughbooks for sale on ebay over the years where the seller states the mouse curser jumps all over the screen

I'm slightly interested at this point in buying this problematic model from you
I can salvage the hard drive and caddy ,and ac adapter ,optical ,and maybe the ram
Might buy the whole thing for parts...thinking $200 or so
Let me know right away though as you are softened up a bit now ,most likely wanting to throw it in the trash bin


















The other thing is what we call the crazy mouse problem where the device manager finds a serial ballpoint mouse and excepts input from the gps and it takes over your curser( 100% sure thats it) and Cap pointed you in the right direction

 

I'd buy that for a dollar.

mnem
Agitating-ily.

 

My random issue was putting the touchscreen driver on the wrong mouse in device manager. Touchscreen worked mouse was erratic.

 

Tail caught in trap!

 

Crazy mouse? Maybe it had a little mousey fight with its little mousey girlfriend and decided to drown its sorrows in a bottle of Mezcal. Give it through the weekend to finish the bottle and clear its head; by Monday it should be right as rain. Or it might show up at work and barf all over your shoes...

mnem
That worm ALWAYS kicks my @ss!

 

HOW THE HECK did you know that we were having a party?!?! Yeah, this morning was a bit rough...

Anyways, I disabled the GPS and it's good now! THANKS GUYS! I didn't even realize that this thing had GPS in it... I didn't see any antenna (like on the 30) and no nub (like the 19's).

Thanks again!

 

Rob..Maybe its the one with the antena on the palmrest area with CT.com

picture please!

ohlip

 

W=Wireless ready GPS
It has bluetooth too.
Have you heard of the configurator or is it to early in the morning yet?

December 22....Pick on Rob day.

Happy Holidays

Jeff

 

Maybe mouse is fine. Rob is the jumpy one.

 

Pics attached. It looks like GPS for sure... and from what I can tell the antenna is on the left side of the card its self.

 

YEAH YEAH YEAH! I just stopped using it because I have all the model numbers memorized lol (or at least I thought I did ).

LMAO!

 

I'll give you $210 and throw in the rubber keyboard.


















Works great with USAPhotomaps my topo program of choice.

 

That rubber keyboard is worth $1 sir, stop trying to screw me over! . NAW, it's up for sale now because I just disabled the GPS module.

I'll sell the GPS module for $100 if someone can please send me the cover in return so I don't have big gaping hole in the thing lol

 

Your sense of humor survived the party anyhoo.

 

Rob,
You have PM.
Jeff

 

PM'ed back

 

Yes! thats the culprit! Anyway, I just bought CF-30 3 weeks ago and I received it today. I was shocked coz the seller didn't even wrap it. He just put on a priority mail box together with the AC adapter without nothing. I'm a bit nervous when the delivery guy gave it to me coz there are something like it just turn into pcs. when I shake the box, I open it carefully as like a christmas gift, lol and into my amazement Its all intact with no problem at all and booted up right away, shess..h. Also it was listed as CF-29 not cf-30 but the price gone up at the end of the auction maybe some bidder also smell it. Here it is. It cf-30 MK2 touch. complete with cd rom drive. Not a bad deal.

Panasonic Toughbook 29 - eBay (item 300497894879 end time Nov-27-10 10:19:31 PST)

Now! starting the modding process then to Ebay.

ohlip

 

Gork! It's your's!

Please send payment when you can.

Thanks!

 

Rob,
Thank you.
Merry Christmas
Jeff

 

LOL Wish I had a better GPS. USB external for the time being I guess.

 

You do have the best (if its a BU353), just not the most convenient
CAP

 

Very good deal and bonus battery.... Teo , Merry Christmas

 

many thanks ,,, turning off gps in bios sorted the same problem on my cf30 ,,, now all i want is the touchscreen to work on my cf19 and ill be at one with the world.

 

Whilst shopping for the fix for the 29E I came across the same fix "GPS Registry Patch" for the CF-30 in different models. Panasonic .ja site. Load it ,run it, re-enable GPS=no jumpy.
FWIW

 

Maybe he "scrolled down" in the description:

"The Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 is quite simply the top-of-the-line in rugged performance for full sized notebooks. The Toughbook 30 comes standard with a 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo processor and Bluetooth® v2.0 + EDR technology. The touchscreen version of the Toughbook 30 boasts an astonishing daylight readable 1,000 NIT display."