Windows 7 on a CF-29 mk5

Hello, I am looking at moving to W7 on my CF-29 MK-5. I am trying to balance the good with the bad of finding working drivers. Can you give me a push in the correct direction?

Thanks New to Toughbooks

 

Hi Dale, welcome to the forum. Since you ask for a push in the right direction, let me point you to "The Ultimate Toughbook Resource Thread", "READ Before Posting". Its a sticky, at the very beginning of the forum. We think its a good place to start.
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I just wanted to say thanks for the info, I have spent the last two days reading so much on this site and had misplaced the location of that thread..
I am in a Tech's heaven at work because I have over 200 CF-29's to Refurb and get ready for a ebay sale's. I just found about 60 CF-28's in another location.This site is helping me learn about the different things in the Thoughbook world that I will now need for my new job.

Thanks Again.
Dale Z.

 

Good Luck Dale! And don't worry, it has all been mapped out for you!

 

I have just spent the last three days looking for that CF-29 with 256 loaded. After 100 CF-29 L and N's I still have not found one. I still have close to 100 left to look at. With having MK-4 and Mk-5's I think one could pop up for a 2gig ram boost. I just love all the mods you can do. I have found 10 CF-29's with the built in ant.
Thanks Again for your Help.
Dale Z

 

Azrial, sorry to use login name. It would be nice if you will produce a disk with
all windows 7 drivers for CF-29 all Mk's (I only need it for Mk V ). Everybody
is having a problem with windows 7 on CF-29. You will make a lot of money.
I will be the first one to buy one. Go for it. Thanks, Voytek.

 

I don't see the need for the MK4 - 5 as it works perfect without any trouble with win7
Only thing to ad is the drivers for hotkey and touchscreen, and the regular xp drivers work for that.

MK3 and below is an other question (very tricky display driver solution)

 

Yeah MK3 after 3 hrs you will not be sober or sane. It's worth it when it works. There is a beta driver for display but I haven't tried to test it out.

 

I am now loading W7 on a CF-29N with 4,000 hours on the unit. I was dealing with a new problem. see post.. I will keep up to date on how it does.
Thanks Dale

 

You should also keep a look out for the CF-29 that has the 1GB chip on the motherboard. These are rare but they are out there......been a few on ebay with it.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/443786-win7-pro-cf-29-a.html

 

After 6 hours and a bad W7 disk I have a Working W7 CF-29N.. I need the battery file, hotkey, Video, sound, Mouse, and a few windows & updates and I have a kick butt laptop with touch screen.. Everything is working and it is running faster now. I use Panasonic update center for my drivers and no problems.
Thanks for your help and now I am going to bed..

Dale

 

Connect hem to Internet, and you will see that he will find most of the drivers on his own.

The rest you can find on the Panny site, extract them and update the drivers in the hardware tab.

 

I did that and all is well.. I am just going to play for a few days more and load it
up with my work programs now.

thanks..

 

enjoy, its much faster than XP

 

you can say that again! I love it and was loading work software today and I will run it side by side with a xp on Wednesday.

 

I have ran all kinds of test on the exp. W7 CF-29N and found that it works great. I found a site and conf. the W7 to max Performance and it is as fast a a
dell 620 with a T 7700 chip on W7.. I have now Cloned it and made 9 others
and I will be putting them back to work on Monday.

Thanks again
Dale

 

I am running XP on a CF-29 MK5 with 2 Gb ram.
I use Eboostr (a Russian program eBoostr Official Website: Accelerate your Computer! - Home) instead of ready boost, and 768 Mb of the ram inside as cache file, it rocks
I also run that program on my CF-18 MK4 with a 4Gb SD card

 

Of course, you could also run ReadyBoost and EBoostr...

I have read of it done, but have never seen it done here.

Denrosten, since you already have EBoostr you could give us a report if you were so interested.

 

Hi Azrial,

I cant compare with ReadyBoost, as i run XP.
I don't know how to measure the improvement with Eboostr, all i know is that the programs i am using opens faster than before.

If you want to test it, download the trial (fully functional) and try to run it on your W7 machine (we have both the same i think)

 

Just wanted to say putting W7 on the toughbook was the best thing I have done. The 1.6 just fly's and watching video is great and no problems . I have now loaded 10 CF-29N and L's with W7 and they are running great. I am going to buy the first one I did for my wife's Christmas because she just loves the Computer so much that her Dell is just sitting in my office in it's bag.

Thanks again.
Dale

 

*Wishes I had DDR2 memory to fully take advantage of W7.* @ least it says I have the full 1.5GB memory. Hold off on the .net and silverlight updates till you make a restore point.

 

Greetings, new to this site, but have been reading for several months now to help me along geeting to know my CF-29M non touch screen.

I was very excited about upgrading my machine to windows 7, and have a legit copy I purchased when it first came out setting on my shelf waiting for a machine to use with, so dug it out and began with the problems.

I could get most of it working fine, but after updates from MS I would get the memory parity error, tried several reinstalls with no luck, then dug out an old Vista disk and installed that, still no joy got that memory parity error. I ran the memory check function on 7 and it reported no problems with the memory, I can't seem to find any place to turn off parity in the BIOS setup routines.

It works great with XP so I may just leave it there. I have one of the machines that is capable of upgrading to 2 gig of ram (non-touch with 256 soldered on mainboard) now have a 1 gig chip in the upgrade slot. Perhaps I will have better luck once the RAM arrives, I ordered the RAM recomended by someone on this board, can't recall who at this point. Kind of a hasstle there to, first place I ordered it from sent my funds back as they miss-shipped to the wrong party and that party refused to send back, so had to re-order resulting it two payments from my paypal account as paypal was lagging on the refund, not a fun thing around Xmas you know but what the heck part of life I guess.

The machine itself is a former member of the ND State Highway Patrol but in super shape so I think it will serve me well. It has the 1.6 GHZ Centrino that is damn fast for it's rating, faster then the 2.5 GHZ Dell it replaced (with great joy I may add!) It goes camping with me regularly in the summer and I have just added a nice little GPS CF card in a PCMCIA adaptor for GPS games afield.

Anyhow does anyone know a cure for the BSOD memory parity error deal with 7 or Vista on these machines?

 

Sounds like you have the wrong type RAM installed. Pull the mem stick out and try again. Out of all the CF-29s I have sitting here getting ready to sell, I have never run into that problem. I have also had CF-29 MK3 and MK4s without that error. I also run XP and Win7 on them.

 

I did a search on " memory parity error " and it took me to MS. One problem was memory was not working up to speed. I would try another stick.

Memory parity errors: Causes and suggestions

 

Make up an iso of memtest 86
Boot with it and test your memory
Report your results

 

db04p71 - Glen you are brilliant - that worked - i guess i just did not get the difference between the driver and the other two little .exe's, but i followed your instructions and now i can turn my brightness down - yippee - the other driver stuff seemed to go okay with the original w7 installation from a bunch of drivers i found somewhere - maybe they originated from this TB forum - i also ran a Driver Navigator update program while still using xp which seemed to mess with a lot of intel bits but i frankly have no idea if that was necessary or did any good - I have to say for 1.6 ghz centrino 1.5 g ram old style machine, this w7/ssd combo is a winner - i am faster than my woman's fancy viao now - it's a bit spooky. Thanks again, ollie
ps anyone else trying this, i recommend getting a full version of w7 if you want to load it directly on the ssd - i tried cloning my old xp onto the new ssd drive and it all failed - boring. The windows migration tool went well but loading your programs on w7 first before doing the migration is a good idea because more comes across in the right places. I bought a cheap pata 128gb ssd from china which slipped beneath the customs radar and it has been fine - who designed that hard disk caddy?? that maybe is the trickiest part for a computer moron like me - take photos while dismantling it thanks again to this forum for being such an amazing resource.