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    CF-R3 drivers?

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by johnblank, Apr 15, 2006.

  1. johnblank

    johnblank Newbie

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    hi all i'm new here. i recently picked up a second hand Panasonic R3 which the previous owner had converted from Japanese to English but i don't think it was done completely right. the screen is very dim, i saw someone with a R3 at a coffee shop one time and the screen was much brighter. the sd card reader doesn't work and it's not listed under device manger. also when ever i plug in a pc card dvd drive which works fine on my brothers dell i get a BSOD. any help is greatly apreciated. thanks.
     
    johnblank, Apr 15, 2006
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    https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pc/cgi-bin/itn/toughbook/dl01.cgi
    Try this website for drivers. Most of the utils are pretty useless as win XP. Give it a try. Just confirm whether all the devices are installed correctly within Win Device manager.

    If you want to increase screen brightness, fn-f1/f2 should work. If that doesn't work, try Ctrl F1/F2.
    As you can swap the Ctrl / FN within bioss (I've done that myself)

    Not sure what you mean by 'converted from Jap to Eng'. As my keyboard's japanese. So I've got a few keys that can't be used due to the jap characters.

    Cheers,
     
    TravelBlue, Apr 22, 2006
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