I have a TouchScreen CF T2 panasonic and enabling the wifi lan in the bios setup causes xp to reboot when the lan detects a wifi connexion. If there ain't no available wifi connexion around, xp works fine... Some idea about ? Thanks

Your Model CF29NWQGZBM the letter "W" indicates that this is a T/S (TouchScreen) Model.

Please verify that the "TouchScreen" is "Enabled" under the BIOS. I recently purchased about a dozen CF29's where there were absolutely NO scratches on the LCD. The reason WHY was because the TouchScreen had been DISABLED at the BIOS level.

I can also share with you another experience I had recently. I purchased approx. 15x CF29 models and every single unit had a defective TouchScreen. When I called Panasonic Canada I was told that since the units were no longer under the three year manufacturer warranty there was nothing they could do about it but that they were aware of this defect and it was a known defect.

I hope this information helps.

Regards from an authorized Panasonic Toughbook Dealer located in Montreal.

carefuully and quckly wach you compuer when it boots and press the right f something key i have a hard tiem doing this too there less then a 2 second window
its gonna say a coupla options befor it acutaly starts loading the win 7, so you gotta be on your toes,
i dont dont remember what 7 says cause me and my 7 have how shall it aherm eparted im back on good ol xp
so any ways it's imperitive that you press the on that getts you to bios
normall you you just dont mess with bios but sometimes you simply must now is one of those times alls you ahve to do is put the lan wifi switch on in bios and violins you is up and runnin on the internets in no time fliat
bye bye
michet@aol,com

The first thing I would try on any Panasonic Toughbook with touchscreen would be to enter the BIOS upon start-up by pressing the "F2" function key. When you are in the BIOS, there is a setting on the 2nd screen tab "Main" which says "Touchscreen:". This should be set to "Enable" instead of Disable. Then you press the "F10" function key and the message: "Save configuration changes and exit now?". Press "Yes" and the toughbook will reboot and your Touchscreen will be enabled at the BIOS level.

Good Luck!
Regards from Richard, Montreal based Panasonic Canada Authorized Toughbook Dealer since 1989.

On all Panasonic Toughbook Notebooks,
you must get into the BIOS by pressing
the F2 Function key when you turn on the
Toughbook as it is booting. Press F2 repeatedly.
This must be done in the 1-2 seconds before
Windows starts to load. Then you will see
Touchscreen usually on the 2nd page with the
word "Enable". Simply select enable and press
"Enter" and the choice between enable and disable
will appear. Then select "Disable" with the cursor
and then press Enter. Finally you need to
"Save and Exit" the changes in the BIOS.
That is it. Good Luck to you.
Regards,
Richard - Montreal Based
Panasonic Toughbook Authorized Dealer since 1989

I suggest staying away from BIOS flashing. Last thing you want is a brick.

In Win 7 - Go to Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing > Manage network connections. Enable the wireless card.

In XP - Go to Start > Control Panel > Network Connections. Enable the wireless card.

Have you checked under the device manager in to make sure that all your peripherals are recognized or enabled in the bios
A: Activate Touchscreen in Bios
B: Reinstall all drivers
C: ensure OS is recognizing the peripherals.
Good Luck

This laptop has a SATA hard drive.
The problem is that XPinstallation CD does not have a SATA driver, unless you have a SATA drive on adisk etc. and can install the driver when XP asks for a hard drive driver then,XP cannot detect the hard disk and therefore won't install XP.The FIX.Go into the BIOS anddisable the SATA drive (enable IDE emulation), this will make XP think it is aIDE/PATA hard disk. Then you can install XP normally. When Windows hasbeen installed then install all the device drivers (including the SATA driver),then shut down and boot up and got into the BIOS and enable the SATA drive.

All drivers for all Panasonic Toughbooks, including BIOS updates
are available from the following website:

Official Support Download Center of the Drivers Manuals and FAQs TOUGHBOOK...

Good Luck to you and Regards from:
Richard, Montreal Based Panasonic Canada Toughbook
Authorized Dealer since 1989.

I would rather go for CF wifi card, because Panasonic doesn't states that this one has SDIO type slot. If you use CF slot you will have to find WIFI card cover - it's different one - it will allow to close top cover with the card inside.

There was also two models:

• CF-P1P1CDZ6J - Bluetooth / wireless LAN built-in
• CF-P1P1CZZ6J - Built-in wireless LAN-model