Can't Calibrate CF-18 screen!

Ok, so I run the calwin.exe and whenever I press the pen to the red marks, it does NOTHING.

If I hit enter, I get an error: Error Dtm
Parameter error. Please input again.

Any ideas?

 

There's a number of things that could be wrong. Have you know your touchscreen to ever work? Did you recently reinstall your operating system and drivers? Does your touchscreen not react at all or does the cursor fly to one of the corners?

We also need to know full model number and OS you use


Dan
Welcome to the machine!!!

 

The OS that it shipped to me was XP Pro, and in my idiotic moment, I didn't image it. So I Installed XP Tablet 2005, I have been using these threads for reference when it came to installing the drivers:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=364032
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=357711&page=2

Whenever I touch the screen with finger or pen, the cursor goes over to the middle-left-hand side of the screen.

Model:
CF-18DHB22KA (I think, It's hard to read.)

 

trying getting something rigid, like thin cardboard, to drag between the bezel and the touchscreen, I don't see that being the problem with what you're describing but it's worth a shot. Let us know if that works out for ya.

Dan

 

It looks like you are supposed to have XP Pro installed. According to the configurator anyway... If your model number is correct.

This looks to be one of those notoriously funky Australian CF-18 models that have flooded the market.

 

Must be one of those $10,000 toughbooks Craig was talking about... lol

 

It's Australian alright.
Had an Aussie Telcom sticker underneath and had some outback dirt in some of the crevices until I gave it a good scrubbing in the sink.

A little dinged up, but for my use, I like it that way.
Reminds me of a beat up old ammo can from the military, now if I could just get all the $&C#!ng drivers to work...

 

damn, it's a MK2.... not happy....

 

Have you already reloaded the driver for the touchscreen?

 

One of the threads around here has the EXACT order of the way the drivers should be installed. If you get the correct drivers and install them in that order... It will work flawlessly.

 

I linked the two threads I was using, but that was when I was loading XP Tablet. I am trying with XP Pro right now..

 

It must be xp pro coz your unit is a touchscreen model not a digit..r. I assumed you know the drill how to calibrate the screen if not, ask the crowd.


ohlip

 

Yeah, I ran the utility but it wasn't registering the pen, so it wasn't working.

I made a backup image before I blew it all away, but it appears that my backup is corrupt, just typical.....

Anyone here have a barebones working image for these Aussie Machines??

 

Pls read the thread again, then u will know what to do The crowd gave u the reason some hours ago. ;-)

 

Ahhhh.... IC.... TOuchscreen....
Okie then, I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO CALIBRATE THE TOUCHSCREEN!!! PLEASE HELP!!!!

 

No problem. First and foremost, start over! I know you don't want to hear this, but it is a must. You need to reformat the drive and re-install the OS from scratch. THEN, per the aforementioned instructions, you must install the drivers IN THE EXACT ORDER AS LISTED. If you try to follow XP's order of things, or try to guess at it, you WILL be spending hours/days pulling your hair out. Our illustrious leader himself spent over 18 hours figuring out the right way to fix these Aussie machines, and HE was there when Australia was discovered.. He's that OLD you see. In other words, the great minds of this forum also had TREMENDOUS trouble with these machines. They took the time and effort to figure out the correct procedure to fix them, we should all trust their work and follow their instructions. I can tell you that EVERYONE that has anally followed their order of driver installations has yet to report back ANY issues. Start over my friend, and you will thank us for it... I promise.

 

OMG that is so true it hurts!