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    Help with a CF19 please.

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by keffa12, Jul 30, 2012.

  1. keffa12

    keffa12 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey everyone.

    I have just got myself a new, to me, cf19 Khragam. It came with vista on it :( and i would very much lie to downgrade it to xp. I came accross the panasonic patch download to use a floppy to recogise the raid/scsi driver but it keeps getting the blue screen. (7g code i think.) Could someone give me some pointers please and could someone also tell me what generation this is? someone told me 3 and it was advertised as mk4??? Im confused.

    Thankyou for any responses.
     
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    orange_george Notebook Evangelist

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    keffa12:

    Cf-19KHRAGAM will be a MK3...have you taken the model number from the Bios?

    As far as downgrading to Win XP you will need a Panasonic downgrade Bios from the Panasonic driver site. :)....I've not got a CF-19, so I'm not too sure if/which driver site you will find it on.

    Edit: I've come back from the driver site empty handed....someone may have one in their personal stash, but I think most of the guy's here went upto Win7 instead of down to XP. :rolleyes:
     
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    I don't think you need to update the BIOS to down grade to XP...I think that was only for the MK1 . My MK2 will run XP or Vista without touching the BIOS...the only updated BIOS I could find was 2 of them for the MK1....BUT I COULD BE WRONG... :rolleyes:
     
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    Yes TaN....I stand corrected. :eek:

    In addition to the OP's problem, I've got a registry problem....what's the Panasonic patch for if the drivers are slipstreamed into XP. :confused:
     
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    db04p71 Notebook Deity

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    You probably have the driver for the wrong Mk.

    Try this one:
    Mk3 SATA Driver
     
    db04p71, Jul 31, 2012
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    pcs9518 Newbie

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    Hi if you are downgrading to XP from Vista you will not need to update the BIOS. You will need the Windows XP Install CD preferably one with service pack 2 or higher.

    XP SP2 and SP3 Install CD's will not need the SATA/RAID driver from Panasonic but should you need it you will need to put the driver on a 1.44 floppy and hit F6 on the Windows install when prompted to do so.

    If you are getting blue screens during install or missing/can not copy file check to see if the install disk is dirty or scratched if it is not then you have a hardware issue like bad RAM bad HDD or something else.
     
    pcs9518, Jul 31, 2012
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