CF-51 MK1 Windows 7 drivers... help!

I have a MK2LL Pm 740. I installed a 320gb hard drive and 2gb DDR2-800 RAM. Loaded Windows 7 and it works nice and fast but I'm missing a bunch of drivers. Swapping a Pm 780 soon as it comes in the mail.

Firstly, Windows update found the driver for the video (Intel 915GM/GMS) but I'm stuck at 1024x768... EDIT: I guess this thing just has a low res screen!

Secondly, installed the Vista sound driver for this model (found on the Panasonic Japan site). No conflicts or errors but the sound doesn't work...?

Lastly, I have an unknown device listed with hardware ID matching the hotkey driver. EDIT: Found the Vista version that seems to work fine.

Any ideas? Please don't say put XP back on as it runs nice and fast!

 

I am running a MK3 with W7 and used all the XP drivers for this.

 

Do you have a link to the one you used? I'm surprised the XP drivers worked!

 

Try uninstalling, rebooting and reinstalling the sound driver. I've seen that procedure somewhere, for some Toughbook model, don't remember which one.

I've got Win7 Pro on a Mk3LL. Everything is perfect. I used the Vista update drivers, except for the video. I ran all the setup files in Compatibility Mode for Vista. I don 't know if that made any difference.

Glen

 

I went to the panasonic USA site and downloaded the one's I need, used 7zip to open them and install.
Toughbook Computer Support - Search Downloads

 

Toughnut just posted this on toughbooktalk http://www.toughbooktalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&p=5983&sid=617b3f4b05e34363d472280977a2427d#p5983

I never use the volume F5/F6 keys so I never noticed them not working. Any one else have this problem ?

 

There are a total of three files to download from Panasonic. Two unpack to installable drivers. The third you need to go to the device manager and manually update the hotkey drivers. Double check for any devices with question marks in the manager, that may be your hotkeys. Mine were shown as a 'Software Modem'. After installing in that way, mine works like a champ. Some of the Toughbook drivers have to be installed in a particular order, the keyboard hotkeys is one that needs to be followed to make operational.

 

John, everything in the device manager appears as it should, nothing highlighted, and all the hotkeys; brightness F1 & 2, display out F3, battery F9 and mute F4 works. When hitting the volume adjust keys F5 & F6, the volume scale appears on screen and DOES move accordingly... only annoyance is that volume remains unchanged I ruled out dysfunctional hardware since all was good under XP Pro SP3.

Screen grabs are linked in this TBT post. Gimme your thoughts.

I'm beginning to like W7 on the 51 and to be honest, the F5~6 hotkeys is a trade-off I can accept.

TIA!
Ron in SG

 

Thats the way I feel on my Mk3. I have a Mk1 I can try installing W7 and check the audio... I'll get back to you...

 

I never use the F5/F6 but it's very funny that it shows it work but don't . I have 2 CF-51 MK3LL, one with XP and one with W7 and the W7 runs so much better and seams faster too. I too can handle losng a few F keys

 

What I want to say is the drivers are for the wrong Mk version. I had to go back and look when I had problems back when I first got the Mk3. It was the driver version I had installed.
I tried setting up my Mk1LL, and the listed drivers work up to a point. I have sound, and the hot keys are displayed on the screen when used, and show the volume going up and down, but the volume does not change. Now, the mute works but that's the only hot key. So I'm going to go put on a limb and say I have the wrong sound driver installed. I got sidetracked so haven't been able to follow up....

 

Hi Folks - newbie here. Sorry for the minor thread jack but If someone could help to get the function keys working I'd be very greatful. control of sound is nice but control of brightness is a must. This is a MKIIIL.

I shut off modem, parallel port and SD reader in the bios until I get everythign else working. Still shows two things as unknown in device manager. Not sure what else to do next. I tried the two vista Hkey apps and they go in but still no FN keys. uninstalled them for now and was thinking of trying the XP ones instead but it seems a few of you have it working so I'll hold off in the hopes of more detailed info instead of just hacking at it.

Thanks in advance

I got sound working pretty easily. The driver that loaded with W7 had somewhat buried setting where you actually had to associate the laptop speakers with the output. Once I checked that the sound worked. Then I installed the Vista sound driver just for the hel of it and things still worked and I have one or two more setting options.

 

On toughbooktalk.com I also have a thread on this too with pictures of my "device manager". Maybe it will help you track down your "two things as unknown in device manager". If not we are here to help
~Toughbook Talk~ Toughbook Discussion • View topic - Windows 7 On A CF-51 MK3

 

I spoke too soon - sort of. found another thread that listed the order of things and that three pieces were needed. XP had all three but vista only has the app and the settings, not the actual driver. Went with XP and it's working. Only now I have the same issue others have reported that the sound bar shows up but is NOT pointed correctly to the sound card. all other Fkeys work so I can live with that one glitch.

Now If I can just bypass the video bios lock on widescreen modes I might actually have brought this thing current.

By the way this is a new old stock MKIII. never was out of the packing until I opened it. but it was time to move to W7 before I started loading all my software

 

My sound key works the same as yours, shows the bar going up but no worky. Mine was new too "zero hours" . I did the T7600 core 2 duo mod and this thing runs super ~Toughbook Talk~ Toughbook Discussion • View topic - CF-51 Intel CoreDuo 1.66GHz to Intel Core2Duo T7200 /400/600

 

totally hijacking this thread now. trying to install some of the vista apps and drivers and keep getting a message saying the Panasonic MISC driver is not accessible, however that driver did seem to install OK. At this point I"m just throwing stuff at it trying to get all the drivers updated so I can do an image before I load any software. Don't know if I should keep going or just stop here with the one item missing and move on to sofware

 

Have you checked this out yet ~Toughbook Talk~ Toughbook Discussion • View topic - Windows 7 On A CF-51 MK3 to see what you might not have installed ?

Don't worry about hijacking this thread, it's good to keep it all together so we can help others.

 

I did look at that a bit ago. Under system devices you have Intel945GM dram controller and PCI Express Root port. I only have the dram controller. I think you have an ATI video card though and I have just the on board intel so I don't know if that's th e difference. Wondering if maybe this has BT or something else I'm not thinking of? Everything else is there and appears to be working. Haven't tried the serial port yet, sd card reader or the other reader that I don't even know what it does.

 

Yes this has the ATI video card . What is your full model number ? I have 3 MK3's
CF-51RC4KFBM
CF-51PFVDEBM
CF-51QF4EEBM
None have BT installed and I don't think that was a option on them.

 

Mine is a CF51RC4EFBM. I know BT is listed in the drivers section and I'm pretty sure a few shipped with it but I don't think internal BT caught on the way everyone expected at the time.

Still can't turn wireless A off and still have one unknown device but at this point I think it's probably time to do an image of the install and start loading software.

Saw a couple 2.0 dual core units on ebay for 150 for the pair. stripped. I might actually do that. put the one processor in this machine and strip MK1 I'm using now of all the extra bits to put on that one. Ending up with matching dual core MIIIs for $150 seems reasonable.

I know when I did my research many months ago the 945GM chipset was listed as capable of 1920x1200. That would be my last goal is trick the bios into letting me run that resolution on external display. Right now I just do it at 1600x1200 but you are losing about 4" of width that way.

Also I have an intel Extreme Graphics 2 for mobile driver on the MKI. I think that was a generic driver that I used while trying to get WS modes to come up. Might have even been beta. Seems to have a lot more details than the one on the MKIII. I'll have to try and dig that up and see if this is just the latest driver or if it was something else.

 

Well I just checked what yours had in it when new
Description: Intel Core Duo T2300 1.66GHz (Centrino), 15" XGA, 1GB, 80GB, 56K, 1Gb Ethernet, Intel 802.11a+b+g, DVD-Multi drive, FDD, WIN XP SP2,Smartcard
Do you have the smartcard drivers installed? I have one just like yours and will take a few pics of device manager when I get out of work this morning .
If you are looking at doing the cpu upgrade read the link that I posted first before you jump into it for it could save you some money. The T7200 cost about $40-$50 on fleabay and gives you the best bang for your buck. The T7600 cost $140.00 + and I noticed no big increase for the extra $100.00 . You can only use the 667MHz FSB speed cpu in it . Intel® Core?2 Duo Processor T7200 (4M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 667 MHz FSB)with SPEC Code(s)SL9SF, SL9SL

 

I haven't had any time to work on this but I just decided to load W7 once more before I go live with the machine. I shut off a few things in the bios to give W7 less to look for. I noticed SD card and Smart card. I'm pretty sure both of those are listed as working in the device manager but I still wonder if that has anything to do with the unknown device. I remember loading drivers for the smart card but not the SD card.

 

Mine is a CF-51RC4KFBM. If you want I can post a pic of what my device manager shows. Only difference is the fingerprint reader in mine.

Well that didn't work out well, I went to my daughter's house to pick it up and she didn't like W7 so she put XP back on it

 

LOL! That

As it stands - I have W7 reloaded and only one unknown device, which we know is the hot key. So we are at a better starting point and I'm making notes as I go. I have installed the TP driver and the sound driver but that's it. Reading up on some other threads I found that I didn't see before that have more detailed info on getting the Panasonic misc driver, chip-set driver and so on loaded. I don't know if they are necessary but I did an drive image as soon as the OS was loaded so I can mess around a bit and not have to start from scratch if I burn it up.

 

If your theory works out let us know...please .

 

I did it. Sound works. I'm not 100% sure where the difference is but I believe it comes down to Intel has a large chipset update that W7 does not install. I installed the sound driver, chipset update, then hotkey drivers and it all works.

and I just found a bunch of updated info on how to hopefully get 1920x1200 external resolution to display. Any software engineers on here though? It's a bit beyond me.

P.S. I don't drink coffee on a daily basis, but I'm going to need some in a few hours when the wife and kids get up. what the hell was I thinking?

 

Well I am on my 3rd cup tonight and its 5:35 AM and its getting light out now so its time to hit the sack. Glad its working out, keep us posted

 

not much success today. My buddy was helping me remotely to see if we could hack the registry to output the native res of my monitor but no go. We got close but then could not repeat it. oddly enough at some point the wlan switch started working perfectly for band A but went cold again when I did a restore to bring as back to a starting point. I may just give up on that dream. I don't know. I still have all my notes from my work last night that I will upload soon. The sound does work and I do think it was the intel chipset drivers. Don't have the version handy but I just went to intel and installed their utility that checks for updates. Bummer about the widescreen modes but at least W7 is running pretty much flawless.

 

WOW HE DID IT. Had to image back and take a different approach to the registry hack. Got it right off. dual display with the laptop and a 24" monitor running 1912x1200! A few hundred thousand hours later but dang, this is sweet! wlan switch is working too. About to do a final image and then go to town on apps

 

There you go, knew you would get it sooner or later

 

having some issues with usb failing after docking. just have to disable and re-enable it. A bit of a pain but manageable.

Anyone know the difference between the VEB511 that I have and the VEB512 that seemed to replace it?

 

I noticed that too. I just restart the 51 and it's ok.

There was a CF-VEB512 on fleabay that showed the back side but I could not see any difference but the price was a lot more.

 

I wondered if it was USB 1.0 vs. 2.0? Mine is tired and if you look at the laptop wrong it pops out of socket, making the USB failure issue even more annoying. but haven't had to reboot - just fixed in device manager. Need to get a script to fix it for me!

 

In the Panasonic Operating Instructionsmanual it says " USB port (4-pin, USB 2.0) x 4 " so the CF- VEB511 should be the same