How To Install Windows 7 On Toughbook CF-18 Mk2 With Touchscreen or Digitizer, With Drivers v3
How To Install Windows 7 On Toughbook CF-18 Mk2 With Touchscreen or Digitizer, With Drivers v3
How To Install Windows 7 On Toughbook CF-18 Mk2 With Touchscreen or Digitizer, With Drivers v3
These instructions were copied directly from a couple of posts on the NotebookReview.com forums 1, 2 and all credit goes to
those authors and the sources they credit. In his post, rck documented how to put W7 on a CF-18 digitizer model. Then
johnlowe showed how to use it with amendments to cater for a touchscreen model, and how to make the three front panel
buttons operational for the touchscreen configuration.
The unit I upgraded for a friend was a CF-18 model DHB22KA, which can be traced to a large lot produced for Telecom
Australia (Telstra). Those units were in use for several years before being retired. Many resurfaced on eBay or were
purchased by 3rd party Toughbook integrators. This particular unit was refurbished by Rugged Depot and resold as one of
several to a county fire department here in the USA, where it saw daily service again until being retired in late 2014. It is still
in great condition, and will be upgraded with the intent of seeing several more years’ private use.
• An external DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive that can be connected by USB3, independently powered.
• A Windows 7 for x86 (32-bit) installation CD. Full version, not upgrade. (A ‘slip-streamed’ W7 SP1 iso with all the
latest updates would be ideal, but I started with an original and let it go through all the updates.)
• The set of drivers I used for this particular unit (zipped and supplied along with these instructions)
• A separate computer where you can browse as needed to find different drivers. Start here:
The Ultimate Quick Search and Toughbook Resource Thread4
The related CF-18 FAQ5
• Spare time: this was not a quick install. Set up in a place where you can leave the laptop for two or three days, going
and coming as you have time. After my preparatory research into the hardware config of this model (my first
encounter with a Toughbook), my guesstimate of the real elapsed time for what follows was more than 20 hours. Of
that, the actual hands-on working time, including downloading drivers, preparing a USB and trying to get it to boot,
1
HOWTO: install Windows 7 on a CF-18 Mk1 Digitizer, by rcx
2
How to: Install Windows 7 on a CF-18 Mark 3 Touchscreen, by johnlowe
3
There are posts in the forum about getting CF-18 to boot off of a USB stick, and that could certainly have sped things up. However
my initial attempts were not successful, and according to various posts, the ‘trick’ discussed didn’t seem to be a sure bet. Since I
already had an old, removable laptop CD drive on hand, I used that and moved on.
4
http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/427461-ultimate-quick-search-Toughbook-resource-thread.html
5
http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/651584-panasonic-Toughbook-cf-18-thread-faq.html
4. Note: The Windows Update process commences by informing you that some number of Important
Updates has been found. You give it the OK to install them. The cycle frequently finishes by
requiring a re-boot. After that, you may be surprised when the system informs you that it has found
Y number of new Important Updates. This is typical and, when installing W7 in 2014, you will
encounter more than 200 ‘Important’ (mandatory) updates, not to mention many more optional or
recommended ones, before the whole process is complete.
You do not need to wait on this process to finish before starting to install the drivers.
However you probably should let Windows Update get to and complete installation of Service Pack
1. There were several dozen important updates it had to install before it got to this. That will take
some time.
If you find that Windows Update is competing for resources and bogging down your work, you can
stop it. First stop the active update task. Then go into Start / Control Panel / System and Security /
Windows Update, then in the left-hand panel Settings. There you can either select ‘Let me know
that updates are available but do not download them’, or ‘Do not check for new updates.’ Either
will stop the process. Make yourself a note here, and then do not forget to set it back to ‘update
automatically’ once the whole driver installation process has been done.
• Run infinst_autol.exe
• Run Setup.exe
4. Sound
• For models with an Intel 82801DB/DBM AC '97 Audio Controller, skip this step n/a for my unit.
• For models with a SigmaTel device, install the SigmaTel audio driver
• Run Setup.exe for the Windows Vista SigmaTel driver
• If that does not work, download and run the Windows XP version of SigmaTel
driver for the CF-19 mk2 model
5. Touchpad Driver
6. Hotkey Driver
• This unknown device is typically the first of two unknown devices that will be
listed
• If you select the wrong unknown device, the install will fail. No worries, just pick
the other unknown device.
3. You will want to use folder containing the driver file hotkey.inf
• Run Setup.exe
• Run Setup.exe
• Run Setup.exe
• Run Setup.exe
• Run Setup.exe
• Run Setup.exe
• Run Setup.exe
• Run Setup.exe
• Run Setup.exe
• Run Setup.exe
20. Bluetooth Stack Driver (I skipped it; I don’t think the unit has a built-in BT. Can add later if I’m wrong.)
• Run Setup.exe
• Run Setup.exe
• Run Setup.exe
23. Video Driver for Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME Devices (This one item alone can take a few hours!!)
0. Preparation
. Be sure there are no other video drivers installed (you will want to start out with
just the standard VGA driver)
a. Extract the Intel 82852/82855 video drivers somewhere, but do not install
anything
(After maybe 10 minutes, I was sure it was all finished. But I clicked on the icon
to expose all the icons in the system tray, and it turned out the driver installation
process was still going on. I could tell immediately because the little ‘driver
installing’ icon with the magnifying glass was still going round and round. If you
see this, keep waiting. ) Only proceed when that has finished.
0. Upon rebooting, Windows 7 may roll back one or more of your display devices to
Standard VGA
(This was the case for me. In fact I had to loop back to step 0 of “Install the
Video Driver”, above, two or three times. Patience… it’s worth it.
(This did not work for me, but I think it’s very important that you try it. Maybe Windows had
already installed the one we’re trying to avoid, and I had already overwritten it. Could be that’s
why I had to loop through the driver installation procedure multiple times…?)
NOTE: You may need to repeat the Windows Update process multiple times, especially after a clean install. Sometimes
one run of Windows update will subsequently make other updates available. So, when you go back after the first set of
updates have installed and re-check for updates, there might be a ‘few’ new updates there that hadn't been listed
previously. I had 125 new ones, which took about 6 hours for the system to install overnight.
1. Open the Control Panel. Navigate to the "Mouse" control panel item, open it, and it should have a tab for the
Touchscreen. Go ahead and calibrate and test your touchscreen now. This is the control panel item you will use to
change settings for both your mouse and your touchscreen. If you don't have a touchscreen tab in the Mouse control
panel, you didn't do something right. If your screen doesn't auto rotate when you put it in tablet mode, you didn't do
something right! You also shouldn't have any unknown devices in the Device Manager, now.
3. Use the installer and install the Wacom driver you just downloaded. It doesn't check for a digitizer at all. It will take
several minutes to install. You don't need to restart your computer!
4. Now test the buttons on the front panel of your CF-18. They should now work. They are: Keyboard (keyboard icon),
Enter (circle with dot in it), and Rotation (‘L’ shape with curved arrows.)
5. In the Control Panel, you should now have three new items: "Tablet PC Settings," "Pen and Touch," and "Pen Tablet
Properties". Ignore the latter one, it won't open if you don't have a Wacom digitizer installed. The other two items will
open, but they don't control your touchscreen, they are for a digitizer model only. However, you CAN use the "Tablet PC
Settings" "Button" tab to change what your front buttons do as outlined above. There is really no other use for these
control panel entries as far as I can tell.
Turn Off Display – I (the author of this post) wanted to set the press-and-hold action for the display rotation button to turn
off the screen. Unfortunately, the Tablet PC Settings Control Panel Dialog only allows one to associate the "Turn the
display off" action with press-and-release events. A little registry hack took care of that—
* Press-and-Release - Rotate screen
* Press-and-Hold - Turn off display
The simplest way to make these changes is to either download and run the "TabletPCButtonMappings.reg" file that is
included in the attached "TabletPCButtonMappings.zip" file or perform it manually as follows:
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TabletPC\ButtonMaps\0]
"ButtonID"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TabletPC\ButtonMaps\0\PrimaryLandscape]
"DefAction"=dword:80000006
"DefHoldAction"=dword:80000002
"DefHoldActionData"=hex:00,00,00,00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TabletPC\ButtonMaps\0\PrimaryPortrait]
"DefAction"=dword:80000006
"DefHoldAction"=dword:80000002
"DefHoldActionData"=hex:00,00,00,00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TabletPC\ButtonMaps\0\SecondaryLandscape]
"DefAction"=dword:80000006
"DefHoldAction"=dword:80000002
"DefHoldActionData"=hex:00,00,00,00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TabletPC\ButtonMaps\0\SecondaryPortrait]
"DefAction"=dword:80000006
"DefHoldAction"=dword:80000002
"DefHoldActionData"=hex:00,00,00,00
Lock Workstation - Then, I wanted the press and hold action for another button to lock the workstation
• <Control><Alt><Up>
• <Control><Alt><Down>
• <Control><Alt><Left>
• <Control><Alt><Right>
• To Enable/disable and/or customize these and other display Hot Keys, go to Start > Control
Panel > Display > Change Display Settings > Advanced Settings > Intel Extreme Graphics 2
for Mobile tab > Graphics Properties > Hot Keys
• Tablet PC Buttons
• To configure, go to Start > Control Panel > Tablet PC Settings > Go to Orientation (link toward
the bottom of the dialog)
• Choose the orientation sequence and click OK
• Press the screen rotation button on the front panel of the computer
• Each time the screen rotation button is pressed, the display should rotate to then next rotation
angle specified in the orientation sequence
Normally, the Automatic Display Rotation Tool is already running on boot; however, if it is not, it can be launched from
Start > All Programs > Panasonic > Display Rotation Tool. This program will not actually rotate the screen; it will simply
launch the utility and load it in the System Notification Area.
You’re finished!!
Calibrate the Digitizer (DIGITIZER MODEL ONLY) n/a for the unit I upgraded
Some users may have problems with the digitizer's edge action--for example, the mouse pointer won't go all the way over
to the right edge, causing problems with the close button, scrollbars, show desktop, and anything else that might be along
that edge. One trick I was taught by a WalkAbout (now DRS) tech was to offset the calibration click for the Wacom
digitizer.
NOTE: These steps assume the right edge is the problem edge.
• Go to Start > Control Panel > Tabelt PC Settings dialog > Display tab
• Click the "Reset..." button if it is not disabled (need to be in "full" calibration mode [16 calibration points])
• Click the "Calibrate..." button
• On the four right-most calibration targets, do NOT click in the dead center of the target; instead,
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• Click the tip of the left line--vertically, your click will still be centered, but horizontally, your click will be offset
to the left
• Click the other 12 calibration targets the same as you normally would
Picking the optimal offset distance to click can be an inexact science, but for me this calibration method has greatly
improved pointer accuracy along the right edge.
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http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=112081&start=81