Ugh......CF-29 MKV Touchscreen dead......

Well, it was a good run......I got about 300 hours on it and the touchscreen just died. No indications of any sort. Was working perfectly and now nothing.

Uninstalled drivers. Reinstalled drivers. Cleaned around the bezel. Verified the connection on the PCB in the lid.

Kind of annoying since it was one of the biggest reasons I got this thing.

Anyone here with replacements available, or is ebay the only option now?

Edit to title for Sadlmkr's help.

 

Make one more post and you can PM sadlmkr. Tell him I sent you.:hi2:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=319309

 

Will do!

Thanks!

 

I guess more the 5 is needed. I clicked on the link you provided and was taken to a page that shows "you don't have permission".

Hopefully he sees this thread and can contact me.

 

When you starting posting you had less than the 5 posts need to send a PM. Give it a try now, it worked for me.

 

Yes 5 should be enough..

 

So I tried swapping the TP pc board from another cf-29 and still nothing....

Oh well.

Let's see if I can send a pm now.

 

Did you reinstall the drivers from device manager. Do you have the restore disk for yours

 

As far as replacements go, do you want another MK5, a new MK4, a repaired panel, just a top half, anything is possible.

Teasing here, Bill and I are talking PM.

Thanks,

Jeff

 

I'd take just about anything if I could get a solid working unit.

I've been using this unit for running tuning software on my truck as I have just recently converted from carburetor to throttle body injection. The touch screen made changing screens at stops very convenient. I can still use the mouse because the other important feature of this laptop is the serial and parallel ports, the serial for the aldl interface and the parallel for the digital storage scope I use.

As far as drivers, yes, installed drivers from device manager.

When I initially set this laptop up, since it did not have a cd drive, I pulled the hdd and copied the i386 folder from the xp install disk to the HDD via usb to ide/sata drive adapter. Downloaded the correct drivers from Panasonic, (B model), for the touchscreen and mouse and everything worked perfectly.

That is up until yesterday. The touchscreen stopped working and that is that....lol....

I have now managed to destroy the back light also. So, now, I am using the spare CF-29 which also suffers from a bad touch screen.

Edit to add:

Anyone have the schematics for the MKV model?

I've found the schematics for the 29C and 29E, both of which have different layouts for the inverter control from the motherboard.