Drivers for CF-18

I picked up a CF-18 with a backlit keyboard for under $100. It was missing the hard disk and caddy. I really bought it just to scrap the keyboard out of it and put it in my CF-19... for the price, it was worthwhile.

However, after looking at it, the 18 is really in good shape. Battery holds a 4 hour charge, 1.2ghz processor, 1GB Ram....

So I grabbed a spare caddy I had and put a 60GB IDE drive I had laying around in it. Picked it right up and installed Win XP with no problems...


Now I'm trying to get regular XP drivers to get all the panasonic functions working. Most of the links in teh stickies appear to be outdated and dead.

Everytime I hit the Panasonic site, I can load a few pages, but most are not loading giving me "Backend Server" errors.

Anybody have a link I can follow to find the basic WinXP drivers for this thing?

I haven't tried yet, I do have the drivers for my CF-19, but I'm bettign the hardware is different and they won't work. It's obviously a later model CF18 and my CF19 is a MK1, so maybe... I haven't compared them yet. Not a lot of faith there, though.

FYI, this is a CF-18NJHGXBM

 

Actually, they are almost all working, I just checked. The Panasonic USA site is having issues this morning. Either the Panasonic.ca or the main Japanese sites are your best bet. The CF-18 is a real bear to load, very picky about the order in which you load your drivers. There have been extensive discussions on the subject, try the search string: "TEST site:forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic", replacing "TEST" with your desired search. Your machine came with Win Tablet, an OS which was never officially available from M$ as a retail package.
CAP
EDIT: Actually, only the digitizer versions came with Tablet PC, the touch screen models had XP.

 

Hopefully the below info is right for your CF-18...took forever to get it . Panny's been having problems for the last couple of days

Below is the search that capt. is talking about
Let me google that for you

 

Here is a good back up site for your driver needs.

Toughbook Drivers

 

Hmmm, good link to bookmark for future needs! Thanks.

 

Thanks for all the replies.

I apologize if those links appear to be good still. Most weren't working for me this morning. Maybe it was my browser and not the sites.

I do appreciate the replies regardless.

The specs posted look correct for this unit. It is a touch screen and not a digitizer, so the XP Prop I installed should be correct. (Though I do have a copy of Tablet... but I don't need it for this.)


I'll pay attention to how the drivers load. I assume it's going to be similar to my CF19. I put Win 7 on it last year and had to update teh BIOS and be pretty particular about the order I loaded everything to get all the features working.

This just really seems like a nice unit. Considering the little bit of money I've got in it so far, It's not worth scrapping just for the keyboard. I'm thinking now I may set this up for my son. He's away at Marine Boot Camp but he loves my CF19. I may just get this one setup and give it to him when he Graduates Boot Camp.

 

Have you seen this link yet http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/364633-cf-18-f-q-read-me-before-posting.html

 

Yes! Thank you. That link is very helpful and has a lot of good info. I actually found it using capt's search suggestion above.

 

Oh. and I just noticed in your signature that your name is Blair. (At least thats my assumption!) I only mention it because my name is also Blair. I don't come acrossed that too often. Thanks again.

 

That's my name...they threw away the mold after they made us two...did not want to ruin a good thing...

 

And done... Thanks to all of your help and the outstanding information from this forum, I now have all of the drivers/software installed and absolutely everything is working as it's supposed to on this little unit. I believe the only thing left is an unknown device showing up as MC75 which I believe I saw on another link here as the WWAN driver. No real need for that at the moment, but I'll likely install the driver anyway just to get rid of the unknown device.

And here I bought this thing to scrap out for it's keyboard... now I'm "stuck" with another perfectly functioning Toughbook Tablet. Oh the dilemma!