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    New Toughbook ! ! !

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by dukeluca86, Sep 7, 2012.

  1. dukeluca86

    dukeluca86 Notebook Consultant

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    Hello, i've just got a CF29 MK III !

    I took it from germany, changed the keyboard with an Italian one that i had liyng around and work great, the price also was very low, at least for a toughbook, about 200€ (250USD approx), the laptop is perfect except for some minor burn spots on the touchpanel, it seems like soldering sparks...

    I'm very satisfied, but...

    BUT I replaced the OS With a XP SP3 but now that i made the change i have not all the drivers... Is a classic, you think about that just after you did it... Doh !

    I found almost all the driver, except for the WWAN driver (i've a MC75 EDGE card installed under the left wrist, the computer one, not the mine).

    The other things that is not going, is a unknown UGX that i know to be a bluetooth dongle, with a flat pcb antenna placed under the keyboard. I seen it when changing the keyboard.

    I can't find it on the panasonic site, in any language and for any MK versions. If you have these drivers please tell me.
     
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    Shawn Crackpot Search Ninja and Options Whore

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    I have the bluetooth drivers from the orig bluetooth install cd.
     
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    Once you update to SP2 or SP3 it will update that to...I think it found it and installed the drivers after SP2.
     
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    dukeluca86 Notebook Consultant

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    I've already get SP3 but these items are still seen as "unknown", i think that i should install the driver manually, but first i have to find them, somewhere...
     
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    Thank you Glen, it worked nicely, now there's only one left, the bluetooth driver. Anyone have it ?
     
    dukeluca86, Sep 7, 2012
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    dukeluca86 Notebook Consultant

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    I abtained a version of the toshiba stack for windows but is a trial of 30 days, after that it will expire.
    It works, but is there a possibility to obtain only the driver, without the toshiba stack application and made the windows bluetooth service to manage the thing ?
     
    dukeluca86, Sep 8, 2012
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    You've got mail!
     
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    Shawn Crackpot Search Ninja and Options Whore

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    Blair and OP both have mail.
     
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    and back at you...very soon :thumbsup:
     
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    dukeluca86 Notebook Consultant

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    Hei, i solved my little issue with the bluetooth thanks to Shawn for helping and to all the forum too.
    So i'm planning to expand my memory of 256 o 512mb, i don't know which memory type i've to buy, ddr or ddr2, this seem a mystic question...

    I've a 1.4Ghz machine and its name is CF29HTT... so i think that is a mk3, am i right ? On a mk3 which memory should i use ? Cpuz tell me that i have a DDR memory, is it right ?
     
    dukeluca86, Sep 10, 2012
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    Yep, that is a Mk3. Takes DDR.
     
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    Hey, at the beginning i was blinded by the joy of having a cf29, but now i have seen that there's non rubber cover... nowhere, there are 5 rubber cover missing, 3 fro the right panel (usb, rj11-rj45, power) one fro the Wwan modem sim slot on the left and another on the back on the serial port (com). I will do without, for now.
     
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    Do you have the screws and metal plate that holds the covers on. Send me a PM for special pricing on usb/modem/power set
    . CF-29.jpg
     
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    I have some problem fitting a memory module inside my cf29, i have SDRAM memory and obviously it won't fit the 29, but i also have a pc3200 512mb module that should be a DDR type and it doesn't fit the 29...

    So it is possible that i have an MK3 model that accept DDR2 memorys ? I ask this because the "hole" in the memory, is very very near to the hole of the mine, but just a millimeter away, and it just won't fit.
     
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    Nope, they are close but no way...sorry
     
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    The FAQ should describe how to tell which mk you have.
    Maybe it's in the cf29 thread.

    Do you have a ps2 port in the back or a usb?
     
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    I have a USB in the back panel, yes the chassis tag says H so mk3, but you know, one can repair the computer fitting inside a new mobo of a different mk...

    I'll ask a friend of mine to borrow me a pair of these memory to try them.
     
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    True, but if you look at the bios it will have the right number there.
     
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    Tried, MK3, DDR (not ddr2) well... doesn't matter...
     
    dukeluca86, Sep 12, 2012
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    See if this helps:

    Crucial® Memory Advisor results for the Panasonic Toughbook 29 Series Laptop/Notebook
     
    TopCop1988, Sep 16, 2012
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    Thank you bt i already found a 512mb module for my TB for just 15€ with shipment, i took it !
    1GB of memory is fine for me, and win xp runs all in memory over 768 mb of ram so it should be very fast, considering that i use a SSD for OS.
     
    dukeluca86, Sep 16, 2012
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