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    Touchscreen-calibration-CF-28 600MHz running WinXP-problem

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by sparkwrite, Jun 5, 2008.

  1. sparkwrite

    sparkwrite Notebook Guru

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    HI: I just received a 28 600MHz with touchscreen and stuck the HDD from my other 600 into it. Of course it works fine but I'm having a problem calibrating the TS. When I first calibrate it it is accurate. Put my pen tip there and the cursor follows. But not long after the cursor is off to the right side an inch or so depending on where on the screen I touch. NOW, this also happens on the one I've had for a couple of years. I thought it was a bad screen, but now the same thing with this new one and I'm starting to wonder if it is a driver issue. I went to the Panasonic Canada website to look at some drivers for it and they have one with a long and complicated explanation about installing touchscreen drivers on an "M" series CF-28 which is running WinXP. Has anyone ever installed these drivers or had an experience like this? Thanks. Spark
     
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    I think you haver to load the driver AND calibrate the tscreen on the laptop... Switching the hard drives around (I think) may cause a glitch in the system. It does with other drivers I know...
     
    Toughbook, Jun 6, 2008
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    sparkwrite Notebook Guru

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    HI Rick: I put in a new install of Win2K to see if the screen would work with that and it seems to. I think it is an XP thing and I had no drivers for the "M" series but found one on the Canada site with quite a complex installation process. At least it was long and maybe for different applications. I think I'm going to give it a try. Spark
     
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    I had some similar dramas installing xp pro on my cf72tc. The xp would not recognise any touchscreen drivers, tried several versions.

    The fix? Quite long winded, installed w98se with all touchscreen drivers, upgraded to w2000, then upgraded again to xp pro.

    Cannot upgrade direct from 98se to xp pro, loses touchscreen!

    Only issue now is if I touch the screen during bootup, xp overwrites the driver with normal mouse driver, need to rollback to fix.
     
    telcobits, Jun 14, 2008
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