CF27 with win XP

I installed Windows XP on one of my old CF27's-it works pretty well, but the battery refresh utility doesn't work (I downloaded it from Panasonic Canada)-is there a battery refresh utility that will work on a CF27 running Windows XP? or not, one of my batteries in need of a refresh!
Thanks a bunch
-DDaymen

upgraded to a CF29 I got from Gork! a few months ago, 1.5 gb of ram, internal wi-fi, just love it. You would wonder why I still use a CF 27 sometimes....can't bring myself to get rid of or retire it.

 

toughbook fans and true believers in the toughbook hate to retire any of these laptops. got a couple cf-29 mk 4's with over 24Khours and they still work great...............Driller

 

I'm using a CF-27 as my main computer right now. Everything else has died on me over the last year, but this thing couldn't be killed with a bazooka. It's like one of those psychos in the horror movies. I love it.

As for the refresh utility, the one I have has to run from DOS. It didn't do me any good, as my battery is dead.

If you have a floppy or CD, just download an image and make a DOS boot disk. Boot into DOS, and run the app.

Love my 27.

Wes

 

I have 438290.63 hours on me.

 

Are those highway hours or city hours? Makes a big difference you know.

 

It's a mixture of both, but a bunch of off road hours. Way too many going the wrong way hours.

 

Did you try brecal.exe from your c:\Util folder?

 

What is this brecal.exe? Any chance there's a spot to download it online? I've changed the OS on my system so many times, I honestly don't even remember what it came with. The original software is long since gone.

 

brecal.exe is the battery refresh/recalibrate utility. You down load it from one of the Panasonic sources listed in the stickies.
EDIT: Just looked in the 27 archives, I don't have it but it occurs to me (it's been a while since I sold my last 27s to Dwight) that the battery refresh may be in the bios similar to the CF-28.
CAP

 

Here maybe?

cf-27/

Battery recal util for CF 29 mk2. Use unrar to extract.

bat recal

 

I was wondering since Dwight has XP loaded whether he didn't have the file already. He could do a search for brecal. Whether or not it works on a CF-27 is the question. One way to find out right Dwight?
Cap, I think on the CF-28 the calibration utility in bios is on the first bios page near or at the bottom. Just looked...it's on the "main" page at the bottom on the 28 I have.
Wes, You might try the search too. It's a small utility tucked away in the Util directory along with drivers and other components.
UAYOR I have not tested this so use at your own risk.

 

Just now got back to replies (did I start something??) downloaded the brecal utility, will try it tomorrow night after work. Oh yeah, I had downloaded the battery utility on the panasonic web site, the one for a cf27E, but when trying to use it, a little screen with a command prompt comes up but dissapears after a split second. Not compatible with XP I suppose as this unit originally had Win. 98 or maybe 200 on it.
Will post results, and this unit is one of the ones I got from Capt. Dogfish!

 

Thanks for the links, guys. I'll give it another shot over the weekend.

 

Tried to use brecal.exe on the cf 27, it gave me a message "not for this computer" ran the bat.ref utility on the cf27 with Win. 2000, and I got a command prompt screen for a split second, the I brought up the command prompt, typed in c:\util\battref \g and nothing happened.
If this utility is in dos, is using the command prompt the proper way to get into dos?

Clueless.

-DDaymen

 

You need to make an MSDOS boot disk using a floppy disk. Here's a link about it: How to create a boot disk. It's a lot easier to do this from Windows 95 or 98 than with Windows 2000 though.