How to Load Windows 7 on a CF-30 MK1 Model

Try this driver for Win 7 32bit directly from Fujitsu:

Touch Panel Driver Software : Fujitsu United States

 

And to calibrate it?

 

Tablet Calibration in the Control Panel

 

You did install the BIOS update...right ? I never had to install any drivers for the touchscreen on my CF-30...W7 did it all.

 

Found it... But I m now having errors loading handwriting, brecal and a few others... It is saying that the misc driver is not found... But it is loaded!

It's getting late and I have to be up early.... Not sure how much longer I'll hang in there tonight.

 

It sure sounds like the BIOS did not update. This happened to me the same way too when I forgot to up date it the last time.

 

Too many hours without sleep! The BIOS wasn't updated... NUmber one on MY list!

I have the files.... Just burn them to DVD and boot? It's been two years since I did this.

 

The Mk1 bios is an executable that runs in Windows. No floppy, cd, dvd needed.

 

I had that feeling when you said...misc driver is not found. Read that on panny driver page somewhere. Once you have it updated and install the misc driver the touch should work without loading any drivers. I did a restart and all was fine.

 

I tried that... The readme file says that I need to make a bootable floppy to install it.

 

Anyone have a link to the correct BIOS update? I thought I had like 5 copies of it. It's the Vista version, yes?

 

Found it...

Misc driver still not found it says... Time for bed!

 

After I updated the Bios I unpacked the driver and went into device manager , I had one device not installed so I went to "update driver" and let it find it or you can point it to the Misc driver and install it and them restart the 30. That should do it...I hope ...if not you better break out the JD you are going to need it while you are wasting another hour loading W7 again. As you know Rick sometimes it's best to start from the begining again and again and.......I think you told me once it's called bonding

 

Yessir... I know that well and will do it later today when I get back home.

The sound wouldn't load either, though W7 puts in it's own driver... PC Info, Handwriting, Brecal, etc are all dependent on the MIsc driver.

Nothing showing wrong in Device Manager though...

Oh well... Reload!

 

Well... I had the WRONG BIOS INSTALLED! The correct one is;

BIOS v1.01L20 Embedded V1.10L11

Get it HERE!

The other places don't seem to have it.

I am now on my third loading to get this straight!

 

Okay... I have everything up and running except Bluetooth... I'll try that in a while.

My BIGGEST issue is that I spilled a little Jack on the keyboard last night and now I have some seriously sticky keys....

I'll update my first post with the additional steps and help needed to do this right!

 

This is what I used for my Mk1.

http://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/dl/dow...kDriver_ver7.00.08(p)_30K_30L_W732_ss6952.exe

For Win 7 32bit on a CF-30 Mk3.

 

It's been a while since I used these but was the BIOS update not included with this driver pk . Index of ./CF-30 Stuff/CF-30 Windows 7 Drivers - Darrin Gartrell/ .

 

I went ahead and downloaded the bluetooth software straight from Toshiba...

Anyone install their video driver? When I tried to install (one of the few things I remember from 2 years ago!) it said that I had a newer version already installed.

Also... Did you install the TPM Module?

 

I used the video drivers that W7 installed and the TPM if I remember right would not install...not compatible I think that is what it said.

 

I have installed the Panasonic Vista video driver. It is older than the Win 7 driver and you get that warning. You must install it in compatibility mode with Vista. I also run as administrator. I don't know if that is required. As the driver is installing I get a BSOD, shut down and reboot and the Vista driver is installed.

Never fooled with and no use for the TPM driver.

 

All loaded... Drivers, all my programs except a few I'll add later and all updates. After tweaks I am seeing boot times of 32 seconds! Not bad. It is in the shop doing a battery recalibration. Just before that I cleaned the Jack out of the keyboard. Tomorrow it ought to be brand new!

Thanks for everyone's help! While I was waiting for all the loading on mine I built a CF-73 for my boss's daughter. He wanted her name on it with a pink background. That is all up and going too... Battery recal going on that one as well.

 

I have a MK1 with a touchscreen, none of the Panasonic drivers for the touchscreen worked for Windows 7. I searched around this forum for a while and thought, "Hey, I wonder if I can get the correct driver from the manufacturer!?!".

So, in case anyone is looking for correct touchscreen drivers (with tons of options including multiple calibration options!)...

BOOM!!!

Touch Panel Driver Software : Fujitsu United States

 

Welcome to the Toughbook forum. This here link has all the drivers for the CF-30MK1 W7 Index of ./CF-30 Stuff/CF-30 Windows 7 Drivers - Darrin Gartrell/ ....enjoy

 

Thank you, but that was one of the places I had looked for functioning touchscreen drivers, that in turn, did not function properly. The Fujitsu drivers worked perfectly without any fuss.

 

Well after loading W7 3 times yesterday... And the day before... I'd say that you do not have the correct BIOS then.

I had the same issue for a while. No tscreen driver would work. Then db04p71 posted the link you did. It worked like a charm. But my Misc driver wouldn't load.(Then the rest of my minior driver/programs wouldn't load) I had the wrong BIOS loaded. As soon as I loaded the correct BIOS everything worked fine... But not the Fujitsu driver... Then the factory driver worked as did all the others, including the Misc driver...

 

Well that's strange, either way I have had the correct BIOS installed the entire time (I have done Windows 7 upgrades on a few other unsupported machines and knew beforehand that the BIOS would most likely need to be updated anyway). I wasn't actually looking for any support, but thank you for the responses though, it's nice to see people willing to help out others! I just wanted to pass on the link to the actual manufacturer drivers in case anyone else ran into a similar issue.

 

boy I feel better, I added Win 7 to my 30 MK1 fairly easily with the "Darrin Gartrell Total 30 to Win 7 workout program" (my name for it). Most everything else driver wise was found by Windows or ready to unpack & load. Battery Cal is not showing in Bios but I have yet to run my machine long enough to need a re-cal... I'll see if I can get that taken care of today.

 

On all the Toughbooks that I have installed Windows 7 I have used Vista drivers, unless the driver would not install such as, the Bluetooth driver. I used Vista drivers even if Windows 7 installed it's own. For drivers that would not install I would look for the next Mk that had Windows 7 drivers and try that. I have also used the Fujitsu TP drivers. I have successfully installed Windows 7 on CF-29 Mk4 and Mk5, CF-30 Mk1 and Mk2, CF-19 Mk2, CF-51 Mk3LL and CF-T5. IMHO, YMMV

 

I don't think the battery cal is in the BIOS anyways but in windows only. That's where mine is .

 

And you can recalibrate your batteries without it... Just click on Fn+F9 when booting!

I updated my original post here to help me the next time I load W7... LOL And others of course!

 

ah, Nice - Thanks again guy's

 

Could someone direct me to the zipped files on Rob's Site? Thanks!


Once you load W7 and get it to boot up you can either find the zipped files on Rob’s site or you can have them pre-downloaded. You want all the drivers for a CF-30, MK1 that runs Vista…. You want all the VISTA files NOT XP Pro. The ONLY exception is for the TouchPAD driver.... Dowload the MK3(K/L) Windows 7 driver from Panasonic's site HERE! As a matter of fact... You can get ALL drivers from here... It will just take you some time to download if you don;t get the whole thing in one zipped file from Rob's site.

 

Here you go.

http://www.toughbooktalk.com/public...ile=CF-30 Drivers Confirmed Working Win 7.zip

 

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Hello everyone,

I have a MK1, and thanks to this forum I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on is,
I must say, it was fun doing it, and fun reading the forum
Got everything working, except GPS.
I don't use GPS so that's fine for me,

About two weeks ago, my sound stop working,
My girlfriend mute the sound with the function / mute button,
and we can't get it on again.

I tried re-installing several sound drivers, found in this forum
(got more drivers, and don't know which driver I finally used)but still no sound of the speakers, or headphone,
When I play music, and I click on speaker, I see the equalizer going up and down,
my guess is the software is fine,

I open the tough book, and wired a MP3 player on the speakers,
Now they work, so hardware is also fine.
Now my knowledge stops,
and hope someone can give me a good advice, so I don't have to re-install Windows 7 completely.

Thanks
Stefan

Panasonic CF-30 MK1 4Gb
Windows 7 Ultimate 32Bit

 

I have tried the drivers for the cf30 mk1 and when I try to install them a popup advises not for this machine what am I doing wrong. I installed win 7 32 bit pro and am now trying to install the drivers . This machine has a phoenix bios, which is password protected and I can't seem to get around that. any ideas anyone????

 

Welcome to the Panasonic Toughbook Forum

Did you update the BIOS to the Vista BIOS ?? That should be the first thing you do. If you can't because your BIOS is locked and it won't let you then you are out of luck. The touchscreen will not work without the update. Go here to get all the drivers http://www.toughbooktalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=603


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Sorry but that we can not help you with that, its against forum rules

 

I used cf30 mk3 drivers on my mk2..Works like a charm..

 

You may need to extract your drivers before you can run them with something like 7zip. Also try running a system scanner to see if it will pick up what bios version you are running. I think specy will do that.

 

Hi all,

I'm loading Win7Pro 32 on a Mk1 CF-30... so far the whole thread has been helpful (thanks for all the info!)... I'm having one problem though, I can't get the touch-screen to work. I've downloaded and tried all the drivers mentioned in this thread and nothing will seem to make the laptop take any 'input' from touching the screen... I see the 'flicks' icon in the system tray, and the Tablet PC as well as Pen applets in the control panel... nothing lets me input via touch though.

Any input?? thanks all!

- justin

 

Welcome to the nut house. First, it helps if we have the full model number, ie. CF-30Cxxxxxx. Second, is the touch screen visible and enabled in the bios screen?
CAP

 

Ha, thanks... Happy to be here

This is a CF-30CASCZBM (L2400 1.66Ghz CPU - only 32 bit though)... I've updated the Bios to the Vista flavor (V1.01L20 w/ V1.10L11 Embedded Controller). The only thing I see under Bios -> Main is 'Touch Pad' though... should I be seeing something about 'Touch Screen' somewhere else perhaps?

Thanks for the quick reply!

- justin

 

A little history will help. Is this a new to you unit? Did it have another OS on it? Did the Touchscreen ever work for you?

CF 30 Mk1 Will not have Touchscreen listed in the Vista Bios.

Make a Ubuntu 10.10 live CD and boot it. If the Touchscreen hardware is ok, It WILL WORK in Ubuntu 10.10..
http://toughbooktalk.com/public_downloads/index.php?dir=Ubuntu%2010.10%20%27Toughbook%20Version%27-/&file=ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386--.iso
If the touchscreen is bad, contact board member sadlmkr. He will fix you up with a touchscreen, or possibly repair yours.

CPU:
C - Core Duo L2400 - 1.66GHz (Centrino Duo)-802.11a/b/g
Display and Keyboard:
A - 13.3" Touch-1,000 nit + Emissive Backlit keys
Hard Disk Drive, Base memory, Optical Drive and UL1604 (Haz Loc):
S - 80GB HDD + 1GB RAM
Integrated Options:
C - GPS + Bluetooth
Integrated Wireless Option:
Z - No WWAN
Operating System:
B - Win XP
Destination:
M - North America

 

Good to know, I looked or a page somewhere that would tell me what the letters meant...

I'm rebuilding this for a friend. I have sent him a txt asking if the Touch ever worked, but I'm fairly certain it DID work before I wiped it... I have his original hard drive win WinXP Pro still, I could always downgrade the Bios and put that back in (albeit a pain in the butt to unpack the actual drive from the cage, haha). I upgraded the ram to 4GB, put in a 250GB SSD, and upgraded the bios... has a fresh build of Win7 Pro 32bit installed... Everything works, (except for GPS which I purposefully left disable in the Bios) and there are no '!' in the device manager...

 

If you have the correct BIOS installed you should be able to just install it (If you have the Misc Driver installed) and then go to Control Panel to calibrate it. To make it easier for next time... You can pin the calibration icon to the start bar... Along with the User's Manual.

 

I do have the correct BIOS installed... and I also have the 'misc' driver installed. What are you referring to when you say "you should be able to just install IT"? The 'tscreen' driver, I take it? I've installed several versions of it, with no luck... and if I go to the calibration screen in the CP, it never registers my finger touching the screen... but Windows sees this as a Tablet PC and if you go to the System info page (right click computer, click properties) under the 'Pen and Touch:' it reads "Single Touch Input Available"... whatever that means.

 

By "it" he means the touchscreen, Trust me on this, download the iso and make the Ubuntu live cd. Boot the cd and you will know for sure the condition of the touchscreen. Otherwise, you will spend hours trying to guess if it's a hardware of software issue.

 

Hey Shawn, I downloaded 12.04 LTS and ran if off a thumb drive... Still no touch screen support. Under 'All Settings' -> 'Hardware' I do see a 'Wacom Graphics Tablet'... not sure if that is showing up because of some present hardware on this Toughbook, or if that is always there, regardless of system. I'm starting to think that the touch interface is dead on this guy.

 

With the Vista bios it thinks you have a tablet. Correctly.

For each session, the kernel loads the drivers for the hardware that it sees.

Vista and W7 treat the touchscreen as a tablet.

XPP treats it as a touchscreen.

If you want to try a little code: (from 12.04 terminal)

Code:

dmesg | grep Tablet

if this yields results you have a bad touchpanel if you have no action from touch input.

Code:

lshw

(list of hardware the system sees)

From W7 [sytem][device manager][hid]will show two or more generic devices
From XPP [device manager][hid]will show Fujitsu.

And to wrap it up Mark 1 does not show touchscreen in bios. That is why device manager is your tool of choice.

Good luck.

Jeff