Serious Help...Please I am begging

My name is Sgt. Villa, I am United States Marine...I am back from "dancing" and my cousin is going out now. I purchased a CF-18 Toughbook so that he can communicate with Family and Friends.......o.k.....my question

The toughbook is a CF-18BHAJXDM....according to Panasonic Support this particular machine came with W2K but I received it with the XP Tablet Edition OS...I have no knowledge in the tech aspect of it all I know is that I am having trouble with calibrating of pen this is a touch screen with the non digitizer pen (no button on the side) the issue is when I go to press an icon or touch screen the cursor (pointer) is off to the left of I already went ahead and installed drivers via the phone with a tech support from the Panasonic website....another is I would like to make this a fast as possible for him...please help me.

Thank you,

Sgt. Villa
USMC

 

Well sounds like you just need to calibrate the screen. Run a search from the start menu on the computer for a program called calwin.exe and if it is on there then run that program and it will pop up a screen with little a red + Touch each plus and then the screen will be calibrated.

If you do not have the program i can email it to you. PM me with ur email.


-James

 

-James

Thank you so much IT'S WORKING!!!!!...

I do apologize for the inconvenience....how do I get the buttons on the side of the screen to work (Tablet Buttons)

You must be cursing at me and saying D**n newbies!! "why don't you research"




Kind Regards,

Sgt. Villa
USMC

 

Dont worry about it that is what the forums are here for

I do not have a cf-18 but these sound like the drivers you need.

https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pc/cgi-bin/itn/toughbook/dl02.cgi?main=880

https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pc/cgi-bin/itn/toughbook/dl02.cgi?main=877

https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pc/cgi-bin/itn/toughbook/dl02.cgi?main=878

Download and install those it should work.

-James

 

Glad you got it working!

 

I am tearing my hair out!.......a dumb question:

How do I install drivers?

 

Well on these one you might have to right click on my computer select properties. Then goto the hardware tab and select device manager.

After that there should be some yellow exclamation marks. You will have to right click on those and select properties then find the update drivers button.

Once that pops up select manually find drivers and browse to c:/util2 (that is where the files extract to most of the time) then select the driver after that it will install.

Sorry i do not know the exact things of this as i do not have a cf-18 but that is how most of the toughbook drivers work.

good luck

-James

 

James....your patience is trully appreciated.....I tried your suggestions....properties and device manager as well as util2 but once i try to install the drivers you provided it does not install.

if you have any other suggestions please feel free to instruct.

Thank you

 

The drivers listed above are for a digitizer unit - you have a touchscreen.

This is indicated by the model number -- 18B H is yours, those drivers were for an 18B D. Touchscreen units work with anything (even your finger) as a stylus. Digitizer units must have a digitizer stylus - they do not work by physically touching the screen.

***I am sorry if you already know this - I find it is easier to just explain everything***

To the best of my knowledge XP Tablet edition only works *correctly* on digitizer model toughbooks -- second letter in the model = D or C. I believe you need regular Windows XP for your touchscreen model. I have seen a few touchscreen models with Tablet edition but it wasn't 100% fully functional.

 

TBtech...Thank you for informing this I did not know this.......

okay so that means that the buttons on the front side of the laptop are useless..the only button that works is the Brightness button does this make sense?

Thanks again

Sgt. Villa
USMC

 

Hey gents...NOt to deviate from this thread...but I have a question on this laptop am I limited to a certain amount of HD Capacity? or what else can I do to make this fast?

Thank you,

Sgt. Villa
USMC

 

The cf18 has a ATA 2.5 hard drive [not SATA]. You can upgrade to a faster 7200 rpm or larger 5400rpm hard drive and I would all so advise you to upgrade the amount of memory those two things can make a surprising differences in performance

 

RandyCF-28, Thank you I will follow thru and get a that type of Hard Drive and max out the memory.

Thank you,

Sgt. Villa
USMC

 

RandyCF-28,
So I go to buy a 2.5 ATA Hard Drive and the guy that handles the notebook support states that I need to find out how big of a HD this model CF-18 toughbook will allow..can you help.

Thank you,

Sgt. Villa
USMC

 

Hey their are no limitations in size... go for a 120GB or higher

 

I might add that older machines (Pentium 3 500MHz+ systems) that used to run windoze 98 had a limit of 137GB because of the 16bit LBA limit... so you would get the 18bit LBA unlocker to fix that (+ a ATA card that supports 18bit LBA). This doesn't affect the cf-18 however

 

Go buy one from newegg.com they are much cheaper than the support place.

You can get any size drive you want as long as it is a ATA 2.5" notebook hard drive. Make sure you do not get a SATA drive it will not work.

You can get memory off of newegg as well for pretty good deals.

-James

 

You guys are awesome the fountain of knowledge that flows here is inending.

I will go to newegg and look for a REALLY BIG HD and max out the Memory.

So anybody find a way to circumvent the tablet buttons on the CF-18

 

They do not have to be useless - on a 'properly' configured touchscreen model the button with the keyboard symbol will launch the software keyboard, the button with the circle works as the 'Enter'-key, the next button rotates the display by using the display rotation tool, and the button with the key locks XP. I don't know exactly what drivers and tools are required for all these buttons to work as intended, so I guess you will need to dig around on Panasonic's support site and try the files provided for your CF-18 version (the links I gave where the first examples I found, but they may not be correct for your particular CF-18 generation).

Björn

 

I will dig around because I would really like to have a full functioning CF-18...THANKS AGAIN!