First post here so bear with me as I try to explain this to the best of my ability, I received a mk1 cf-20 for free as a gift to use with work at my dealership, I have it as a tablet more often that not, however lately more deskwork has become a normal for me and have begun using the keyboard more often. Something I noticed is that if I use the keyboard for a little bit and it seems more with keys towards the middle, the USB ports on the base will 'disconnect' sometimes they will reconnect and start working again, other times they will not, and under device manager will just show Unknown USB Device (Port Reset Failed) Has anyone seen this at all before and know anything about this issue, I found some instances of people having the same issue on some forums, but never a solution, any help would be greatly appreciated!

I have a CF-31 used to run a couple of printers at a storage unit. Got it used so I don't know the age of the battery, but it would only hold a charge for about 15 minutes so I decided to replace it with an aftermarket battery about two months ago.

Today I unplugged the computer and it turned off instead of switching to battery power. I opened up the door to find the battery had swelled and was stuck. I had to open the case to get it out.

I still need a battery but this experience soured me on aftermarket so I checked on eBay for an OEM battery and there are a ton of new condition "genuine" Panasonic batteries in the $30-40 range from a bunch of different sellers. They say Panasonic on the label and I get that there's sometimes businesses or government agencies liquidating new old stock but I find it extremely sus that there are so many for such an old laptop.

How can I make sure I'm getting a real one?

I just purchased a CF-33 MK1 under a month ago, and I absolutely love everything about the computer.

The only problem I have is that it doesn't meet the requirements of the electrical engineering technology program I'm going into. [The attached image being the requirements]

I've upgraded the SSD to 1 terabyte but I still need more RAM, I know that the RAM is soldered directly to the mother board.

The only solution I see to my problem is to upgrade the entire motherboard itself. The only problem is that I can't seem to find any mother boards other than one 16 GB board on eBay.

does anyone know where I could find a 32 GB motherboard maybe even with an i7 and if newer MK2 or even MK3 motherboards would even work in a MK1?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I've rescued a Toughbook CF-19 Mk. 16 from a car shop. It's in mint conditions, but the original SSD has a completely fucked up install of windows 7.

I threw in a new SSD and easily managed to get windows 10 and even windows 11 installed. However, i can't find a way to get the drivers working. I tried transferring the setup files from the old ssd but they just crash saying the PC is not compatible. I tried going over to the panasonic support website, downloaded PC HUB and it doesn't find any of the stuff, it just lets me control the fans.
I can't calibrate my touchscreen or set other resolutions, the hotkeys on the front aren't working and neither is the SD card reader.

Device manager is showing a bunch of devices with missing or broken driver but it can't find them by itself.

Someone suggested booting up the old win7 install and trying to update to windows 10 from there so it should keep the drivers, but as i said, my old install is basically stalled, it's impossible to get anything done. it takes like an hour just to log in.

Any ideas?

Just got my first Toughbook! Specs: CF-54, 500GB SSD, 16GB ram, 4G. Came with one regular battery pack and one that's shaped like a DVD drive. I do have one question. Can I just throw any CF-54 DVD drive in it or does it have to be a MK3? Not sure if there is a difference there. I'm happy to answer any questions!

Since I have seen many replies to my old post from a few months ago looking for these wallpapers, I figured I oughta finally make a post that properly has them for people to find. I believe it was u/TheManfromCVS who originally found them and sent them to me, so big thanks to him.

Hey everyone i have a cf-33 mk1 running win11 trying to connect a external nvme drive as external storage. I used another computer to format it and it shows up instantly on that one.

I enabled quick charging in the bios on toughbook it worked for a second and then after a restart. Nothing again

Please help

My Wi-Fi card (an Intel AX210) isn't staying enabled after boot — I have to manually toggle the hardware switch every time I boot up my laptop. I think it's possible the wireless interface doesn't initialize properly due to power management or driver timing issues. I've heard of that happening with Intel cards in older laptops running Linux.

To fix it, I tried several steps:

I checked and disabled any soft or hard blocks from rfkill

I added wifi.powersave=2 to my GRUB boot parameters to turn off Wi-Fi power saving

I created a systemd service that runs rfkill unblock wifi at startup

I made sure the iwlwifi driver was loading correctly and without errors

Despite all of this, the issue still persists. At this point, I believe it's related to a firmware or BIOS-level behavior that doesn't have a reliable software workaround. Before I give up, I wanted to just check with you all first to see if you had any suggestions.

Hardware info:

Model: MK4 CF-19 RDREX1M

CPU: Intel Core i5-540U @ 1.20 GHz (2 cores, 4 threads)

Architecture: Arrandale (32nm, 2010), 1st Gen Core

RAM: 8 GB DDR3 800 MHz (2×4 GB SODIMMs)

Wi-Fi/Bluetooth: Intel AX210 (Wi-Fi 6E / BT 5.3) – PCIe or USB

OS: Manjaro Linux (Kernel 6.12.39-1-MANJARO)

MK4 CF-19 Wifi will only work after bootup if you toggle wifi switch.

Hi everyone, I have a couple of CF20’s, one that’s surplus, and one that looks brand new. The surplus one (CF-20A7012VM) has GPS but the screen is a little rough, while the brand new looking one (CF-20A0025VM) doesn’t have gps. Unfortunately, GPS is one of features I need out of the computer.

Is it possible to replace the screen on the Gps one with the screen from the non-gps model? Or is it possible to transfer the GPS components over to the other tablet? Or are these tablets not modular enough for that?

Is there any way to upgrade my CF XZ to get better performance? I would like to use 3d models in my art software but it always crashes.

Hey peeps. I have a cf-31 mk4 i bought off ebay in acceptable shape. Ive gotten everything working and running windows 8.1, but the only thing left i cant diagnose is my touchscreen issues. My touchscreen cursor is stuck in the top right when active and it wont allow me to do anything. I know it has multiple parts to the touch screen system and need help figuring out which is it. Or is this a fairly common issue that has a simple answer? Ive looked up info in the past but come up with just "deactive it in bios" but i want 100% functionality.

Hey guys just bought a cf33, does the pen need a battery? The button doesn't do anything but I can't see anywhere to change a battery.

(Cf-33 Mk1)

Cheers

Hey everyone, long time toughbook user. Started on a cf18, currently have a cf19 and about to purchase a cf-33

Does anyone know how to have the tablet buttons. Rotate, lock ect. Work with windows 10 as they were originally designed for windows 7 drivers. Thankyou

Anybody know a Good Monitor Extender that is for sure compatible with a FZ-55?

I haven't tried any yet, and they all may be compatible, just looking to see if anybody has any experience already with them.

I want to add an M.2 SSD to a Toughbook CF-54. I have tried several, all of which I know work in other laptops and in an M.2 USB adapter. No matter which one I put in there, the BIOS shows "empty" under "hard disk". Do I need a specific type of SSD? These are all fairly new ones.

I noticed that there is a tiny thing that would be under the M.2 card if one was installed, which looks like a tiny tiny ribbon connector. It has a cutout in the plastic above it, and is labeled with an arrow on one side and a "9" on the other. Anyone know what this is? Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with my problems?

Just wondering if a blu-ray drive would be available for this thing? Could someone help me find one? I have seen listings for slim blu-ray drives, but I have no idea which ones would be compatible with a CF-54.

Scored this tablet for $150 . Going to be used as an automotive diagnostic tool.

So I was looking over some connections for the cf-19 caddy cable...is there a way to connect a sata3 ssd to the computer that are available as a standard connector? I saw that kind of a connector as the caddy connector somewhere before....but cant place it where...does anyone know what is it called? that sata to whatever connector it may be?

Thank you

So I was looking over some connections for the cf-19 caddy cable...is there a way to connect a sata3 ssd to the computer that are available as a standard connector? I saw that kind of a connector as the caddy connector somewhere before....but cant place it where...does anyone know what is it called? that sata to whatever connector it may be?

Thank you

I want to charge my Panasonic Toughbook from 12VDC without using the big charging brick.

I’ve been looking into two options and would love your thoughts: 1.Buck converter to step up 12VDC to ~16VDC (Toughbook input), but I’m having a hard time finding one that’s small and has a nice clean enclosure. Most of them look sketchy or are bare boards. 2.USB-C PD route — using a trigger cable that negotiates 15V (close enough?)from a PD power bank or car adapter. Like this one: Adafruit USB-C to Barrel with PD trigger (15V) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5451 Has anyone tried either method successfully? Any suggestions for a reliable, compact, enclosed buck converter, or is USB-C PD the better way to go these days?

Thanks!

Just curious...

Trying to find drivers is a pain for it but does it need the specific pen for it? It's supposed to be Wacom but a Wacom Pen won't work at all.

For our vehicles with mounted laptops, it would be really nice to be able to use a navigation program in windows similar to Google maps on a cell phone. Is there any such Google maps or GPS navigation program for windows? We have mounted toughbooks in all of our vehicles that have GPS and LTE. But our people are still using their cell phones for navigation because Google maps is just so great and easy to use.

I was stress testing one unit, and it was maxing at 100%, but it was stuck at 1.8 GHz and not bumping higher, as it should have per intel specs sheets....and temperature wise it was slightly above ambient temps....so...I figured it might eb a driver issue....as lately the stylus stopped working....

any ideas?