Hey guys I have a cf-33 mk3 with the standard keyboard. Everything on the keyboard works but it will not charge through the dock. Does anyone know what connection points I need to check?

I purchased a reconditioned CF-33 mk1 off Amazon earlier this week and when it came, the Wi-Fi wasn’t there. I have tried almost every solution I could find online but nothing has worked. I’m willing to try anything. The amazon listing said it had Wi-Fi. I was so excited to get the laptop and use it but this has been really frustrating. I really don’t want to have to return it.

Currently use a CF-19 for automotive, really love the easily swappable HDD/SSD caddys on the side. Not a fan of the trackpad or screen and number of ports. With technology moving forward and USB-C chargers being available (plugs and powerbanks being able to charge laptops) I would like to upgrade to utilise this. Still need the standard USB ports dont want to be left with a hub.

Any recommendations to meet my criteria above?

Needs to be able to run windows, if I can upgrade RAM that would be ideal as well

also LTE i have a sim slot but i don't know how to get it working on ubuntu,
im sorry to ask here if this is all ez but i'm new to messing with the CF-31

What toughbook comes with a Serial Port that doesn't run on USB? I'm looking for a machine ith a 4 core cpu and I'll upgrade it with 8GB ram... I've had so many problems with anything USB to Serial i need to program some 2 way radios and can not use anything USB based it just doesn't work I've tried so many different ways..

I'll be using windows 7 on it so technically anything 4 core would work fine with 8gb of ram

I have scoured ebay and google but cant find a decent extended battery cover for the cf33. I have found batteries from a few sources but no cover. Does anyone have a direction to point me? Not looking to spend $200 on one but around 50 would be ok.

Hi Guys,

Could CF-20 use the COM port in DOS ?

I try to edit the Saber Radio program in DOS with 4008 BOX and CF-20, but there seems to be no signal coming out the COM port, I had check the 4008 BOX and Saber Radio program is working on Desktop PC, please advice, thanks~

I have two different CF-33 Mk1s. On both of them, the Ethernet port (the RJ45 socket for wired Ethernet) doesn't work.

One one, I plug in a known-good cable (works with desktops) and it just says "network disconnected" as if the cable is unplugged.

The other does a BSOD the moment I plug it in.

Windows 10.

Anybody else seeing this? These used to work a couple of years ago.

Hey guys, I work at an e-waste facility and we recently got in a mk. 4 FZ-G1 Toughpad that won't register any m.2 that's put in it. No drive shows up when trying to boot the tablet off of a windows 11 flash drive. The original m.2 was pulled when the tablet was retired from police use. Is there a trick for getting it to work?

Hey All!! I’m looking at this CF-33 that’s available in my area, this is the only 16g RAM model I could find, all others are 8g RAM which Id imagine it will be pretty underwhelming.

When I go pick it up, what should I check for? Anything to look out for? Thank you all so much in advance!

Price is in CAD

Pimp my Cf-31 Mk 5

I just wrapped up a project laptop build for all my radio programming work. I went with a Panasonic Toughbook CF-31 Mk5 (CF-3112149CM) because I needed something that could boot both Legacy BIOS and UEFI, and I wanted to run multiple OS’s:

Windows 7 (32-bit)

Windows 7 (64-bit)

Windows 10 (64-bit)

Linux Mint

The CF-31 was perfect since it can support up to 3 drives, which let me separate systems and have a shared storage drive.

Why I chose the CF-31:

True, dedicated serial port (huge for radio work)

PC Card slot (PCMCIA 2.0)

ExpressCard slot (54mm)

RAM upgradeable to 16GB DDR3

Rugged and reliable

How I fit 3 drives into it:

Drive 1 (Bootable): Standard 2.5" SATA III (HDD/SSD or JBOD span bridge) →

Drive 2 (Bootable): Multipurpose bay with CD/DVD replacement caddy → adapter here

Drive 3 (Non-bootable): ExpressCard slot with NVMe adapter → https://ebay.us/m/syXN5k (the adapter fits 2232/2242 NVMe drives nicely, it can take up to 2280 but it will stick out and you will not be able to close the port cover, and it will not take NGFF drives—those will bluescreen)

The NVMe drive shows up on Windows 7 (32 & 64) with some hotfixes via Legacy Update.

Other expansion options:

PC Card slot can add 2 more USB 2.0 ports → adapter here

Helpful tools:

Snappy Driver Installer

Legacy Update

DiskGenius

Panasonic “one-click” driver bundles for Windows

This project has been a super fun learning experience, and I finally have a rugged all-in-one machine for my programming needs.

TL;DR: Built a Panasonic CF-31 Mk5 Toughbook into a multi-OS radio programming laptop with 3 drives (2 bootable, 1 NVMe via ExpressCard), a true serial port, and tons of legacy expansion options. Runs Win7 (32/64), Win10, and Linux Mint with everything playing nicely together.

I have a CF-31 Mk2 which has a PCI-e ExpressCard slot. But what to put in it?

"PCIE ExpressCard to M.2 NVMe SSD Adapter Card" was the listing on a popular online store. Allegedly supports single-sided 2230 and 2242 M.2 NVMe SSD solid-state drives.

I was pretty dubious about this whole thing, so I bought a (very) cheap "Intel Optane Memory M10 SSD M.2 2242 16GB" just to try it out. And that worked!

Then I bought a Kingston NVMe 2230 in 2 TB. And that works too!

Just wanted to share my success with the community. There are worse ways to spend a couple bucks.

So I was handed a CF-33LEPDRVM to deploy at work and I see it has a intel I5 7300U CPU but also windows 11 pro. does this device really supports windows 11 or was it bypassed by the seller?

This will only run some Toyota Techstream software (display live values via USB dongle) and does not need to be powerful.
What models fit the bill and may be found cheap-ish on Ebay?
Where can I buy genuine new batteries for these?

cleaned my touch screen and now mouse pointer has developed a life of its own whwn not lurking in top right hand corner of screen.... gremlin's gotta go

I just got a great condition cf33 and was wondering, do the batteries discharge one at a time and have 8ish hours a piece or total? Its saying battery 2 in use and battery 1 is fully charged.

Is there a manual way to get it apart? The little sliding tab is sliding but the "window" that shows its locked is not budging. I just about beat it death trying to get is separated and no luck.

I have ordered a cf33 with Gamber-johnson docking station I'd like to use with my sdrtrunk. I saw mention somewhere that people mod these toughbooks to integrate the dongle inside. Does anyone have a direction to point me so I can see how someone did it?

I recently purchased a CF-54 Mk2 that came with a battery that only would run for a short while. For some reason, it would go from 100% charge down to 90% and then immediately to 9% from where it ran out normally.

So I purchased a new "open box" genuine Panasonic battery which seemed to work ok for about 1 day I think I got about 4-5 hours of run time.

Then suddenly the new battery started to do the same thing. First it went dead while sleeping overnight. Now it does the same thing as the original, 100>90>9 in a short while.

I have calibrated both of them. My battery test software does show that the newer battery has 70% capacity.

I am wondering if there is an issue in the laptop?

Any advice would be appreciated. TIA.

I7 2Tb 64gb RAM It looks so great. Cant wait to install all needed software. Some upgrades are coming soon.

It is possible.. but not practical. Extracted Tiny10 x86 ISO -> WinNTSetup -> SanDisk 16GB USB. stick

So Panasonic tech support is saying that they don’t have drivers for anything after windows 10 version 18 09 and the wwan card manufacturer doesn’t list a driver for anything after windows 10… any options out there??

Hey, everybody. I have a ToughBook CF-SX2 (JDAZ1M model) and, although I have no recollection of ever setting up a BiOS password, it started asking me for one recently, and I cannot find anything online about a backdoor password. Is there anything I can do to at least muscle my way into the BiOS settings and turn off the password? Thanks in advance 👍