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    CF-72X a couple questions

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by scajjr2, Jan 23, 2012.

  1. scajjr2

    scajjr2 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My son-in-law was given a CF-72X by his boss. It works OK with one issue I don't know if it's normal or not. Seems to take a very long time to enter the BIOS if F2 is pressed( easily a minute or 2) or just to boot into Windows XP (The panasonic logo stays on the screen for a good 2 minutes before XP loads, XP loads fine).

    Also will this unit handle a Gig of memory? One spec sheet I found online says 768Mb max, but I came across some postings in my search saying it will handle a Gb.

    TIA for any help.

    Sam
     
    scajjr2, Jan 23, 2012
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    db04p71 Notebook Deity

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    If it has one, remove the optical drive and see what happens. The optical drive may have been replaced with a drive that is not set to master. This will cause a delay in booting, as the bios figures out what to do.
     
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    Yeah that explains that one, removed DVD drive, boots up rather quickly now.

    Any thoughts on the max memory it can handle?

    Sam
     
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    Oh the eNtire model number is CF-72XCJWZKM.

    sAM
     
    scajjr2, Jan 23, 2012
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    ADOR Evil Mad Scientist

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    There is a mod where you can tie internally two pins and it will set your non master dvd drive to master.

    On the ram if that CF-72 is anything like the CF-72's I just got rid of it has 128 to 256mb of ram on the mother board. The mother board it's self can handle 1gb of ram, BUT they don't make 768 mb ram chips. So it's kind of hard to max it out. If they started offering 512mb on the motherboard of ram then you could just get a 512 stick and max it out. I don't know how much ram that model has on the motherboard.
     
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    Strangely when I put the DVD drive back in and rebooted there was no delay anymore. A check of the BIOS shows the DVD as Master.

    Motherboard has 256mb.

    Sam
     
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    Maybe the drive just wasn't seated properly. Yep, for your model it looks like you are going to be stuck with 768 max.
     
    ADOR, Jan 24, 2012
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    Mark F Notebook Enthusiast

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    For whatever it is worth, I have a CF-72X3JWZDM and I up graded the CPU to 2.50GHz and added 1GB of ram, the BIOS shows 1280 MB of ram.

    Vista Biz shows 2.5 GB ram. It works ok with vista but barely, those new Microsoft OS's are so bulky, memory hogs! I have XP and Ubuntu on it as well and they run good, that PC just don't have what it takes to keep up. Had lots of fun with them, have 2 and they have both been scattered on the bench a few times!!

    Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there.
     
    Mark F, May 3, 2012
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