San Antonio Police CF-29

Hello All:

2 year lurker here - really enjoy the board and have gotten TONS of valuable info from here. Bought a CF-27 via ebay and had no problems souping it up to use in the vehicle. Limited CPU speed and 192MB RAM limitation made me want more speed and picked up a CF-29EWPNZBM San Antonio PD laptop but it has the following issues: Touchscreen doesn't work, no sound and doesn't do anything when I plug in a PCMCIA card.

Researching the Panasonic web page tells me there should be a 802.11b+g WiFi device on board but I have no idea how to initialize it.

My guess it's just a matter of drivers, right? Download the sound, mouse, WLAN and PCMCIA drivers should get me back on the road, right?

I'm a little nervous about enabling the wrong drivers and locking the machine up so bear with me if I seem like a chicken when it comes to finding the right drivers.

I'll take any and all suggestions. Thanks in advance.

Jim

 

just install them if they look like the right drivers... if they don't work, you go into safe mode and remove them/use System restore...

care to link to these drivers and the complete specs of you machine?

 

Load in the intelinf driver first and reboot.
Then the rest of your drivers.
Don't forget to go into setup and enable all the devices that you will want to use.

Bob

OH?! and welcome to the insanity

and ignore the Dell and Lenovo guys,,,,,,
They will never understand the Toughbook insanity

Best place for drivers is here:

http://www.panasonic.ca/english/customercare/sandd/softwarequery.asp#

 

DO NOT listen to Dellios. They do not know toughbooks. Look in your bios and see what version you are running, this will tell you what Mark you have. BIOS version 1.0 something is Mark I; BIOS version 2.0 something is Mark II and so on. Then go here http://www.robsnetworks.com/toughbook/NR%20Contributing%20Members/Doobi/CF-29%20Drivers%20(All%20Marks)/ and look for the drivers you need by Mark number. Do not worry too much, if you grab the wrong one it will tell you it's the wrong one for your laptop. Basically, get all the ones that say "xxxxx 29 3 xxxxx"; you will see 29 1; 29 2; 29 3; etc.. that 1 2 3 is the Mark number. Hope this helps...

 

First

Look in the bios first by hitting F2 during boot up
Go to the last tab called exit and Get default values or something to that effect
Then look in the bios tabs and make sure everything is enabled and save values and restart

Alex

 

OK - another problem. Even though I'm signed in as Administrator the BIOS is password proteced. Is there a default password? If not, might the seller know the password? Thanks, again.

 

Jim

I knew you were going to report this lol

The issues you are having are related to the devices being disabled in the bios
You will have full functionality when you access the bios and enable the turned off devices

Read this thread

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=361407

Talk to the seller and see if he will help you on this
He might be the poster on the thread I gave you a link to; if so he has now figured it out
I cannot give you advice on resetting bios passwords as its against forum rules to post that info here

Alex

 

Yes, you're right...it is my next question and I DID buy from this source. Thank you for the thread, I really appreciate all the help from everyone here. Thanks again.

 

No problem
Enjoy your cf-29

Alex