I am unable to get mycf-18 touchscreen to operate

I recieved a cf-18 toughbook and the touchscreen worked fine, I erased the hard drive and reinstalled windows xp sp3 and installed the drivers for my touch screen, but when i get to the calwen screen the styllass will not engage the red+ to calibrate and activate the touchscreen, everything can be moved with the keyboard though, can someone please help me it is driving me CRAZY!!!

 

I've been hearing horror stories about the australian cf-18. give us your full model number you may have to start over and put the drivers back on in a certain sequence

 

yeah, thanks for responding, the full p/n is CF-18NDHZXVM

 

your model has a digitizer not a touchscreen and it looks like the OS it's supposed to be running is Windows XP tablet edition 2005.

Try reading these threads to see if they help you out any
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=364032
http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...=357711&page=2

Dan

 

Thank you, so the digitizer still works as a touch screen? I'm at work so I will look more into this when i get home, thank you for your help

 

the digitizer won't respond to touch, it only responds to the pen from what I hear. I have never really used a digitizer unit.

 

Do you have the digitizer pen?
As Dan said, it is not a touchscreen, it will only work with the pen


Alex

 

duh didn't think to ask that, i thought he said he was using the pen lol

 

Hi, if I may hijack this thread!! I have a CF-18K and also have problems with the touchscreen. I have installed the latest drivers (XP SP2) and the touchscreen is enabled but I cannot calibrate it. When I click on the crosshairs and then 'Enter' to exit, I get the "Parameter Error. Please input again" that others have reported. I have noticed, however, that any touching of the screen with the stylus sends the cursor off the bottom of the screen. If I have several windows in my bottom toolbar, I can select them, with the stylus/finger, by clicking anywhere above them!!

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks, Malcolm

 

Yes, read the aforementioned threads regarding the ORDER OF INSTALLATION of drivers. If I remember correctly, this resolved the "Parameter Error". Once that is correct, let us know if the calibration problem remains.

 

i do have the pen, and am i to understand that i maybe able to get this to work without installing xp tablet 2005, and where is it that i can find the order of installing drivers, I am home now and in front of my cf-18, so any help will be appreciated

 

One of the links I posted has the order in the thread somewhere, I'm thinking its in the first one. Just read on, you'll prolly need to know all that information eventually anyway

Dan

 

"OS INF File driver , unextract to c: and install and reboot"... can you explain how to do this please

 

the hotkeyplus folder has no drivers in it... is this important?

 

found the inf.file, dang now i will have to start over

 

It's a real irritating process, read it a couple of time and make sure you have everything before you start that way you won't have to keep doing it over again

 

Read this thread as is has a link to a driver that will work with xp


http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=338187


Here is another link
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=325093
Note post 58 as it has good info



Alex

 

Thank you Tomcat, I will try the drivers when i get home from work and update you on if it worked. I do have a couple questions about reply number 58 that lists the order of installing the drivers" i did it last night and it made no difference, still can't get the digitizer to work" when i tried to install driver for hotkey plus, there was no drivers available,is this important?, and next question, when i get to the mouse drivers, after i install and update the mouse, should i then try to calibrate and activate the digitizer then or wait till i have dl'd all the drivers per the directions of order? Thanks for ALL your help

 

Here is the download site to use
http://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/cgi-bin/itn/toughbook/dl01.cgi

Driver
Cf-18n/p
Windows xp sp2
English
Click search

The + driver is there, and every other driver you need, except touchscreen drivers as you run the other application on the link I supplied before


Alex

 

i dl hotkeyplus extract it but there is no driver there

 

i thought hotkeyplus was a utility. bleh, alex will tell ya soon

 

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.... the pen works now.. THANK YOU!!!

 

Yeah..I'm sure it works now coz I've seen your unit for sale now on ebay. Lol


ohlip

 

Teo
Its still not quite right as he states in the listing
"There are 4 quick access buttons on the front right corner that I can't seem to get turned on"
So we will probably see the new owner here in a few weeks for some more free info


Alex

 

aren't the front buttons the hotkeyplus ones?

 

Yes, there was an issue with not finding them when he unextracted them
And the link that I posted before has a very detailed order that the drivers have to be installed, or the buttons do not work


Alex

 

Just so people know (As if it isn't already spelled out often enough around here!) some of the Hotkey drivers are programs that need to be installed and some are drivers that should be installed via Device Manager.... (Look for the yellow question mark.)

 

I had no problems with installing all my drivers including the hotkeyplus on my cf-18 then again I don't have the pain in the a$$ aussie unit