~Toughbooktalk~

Yep, everything pointed to Touchscreen, the CF-18 FAQ has a good section on the screen, and physically everthing matched (Stylus slot size, Serial port, XP COA sticker). However I asked Panasonic Australia for a spec sheet, they put me onto the company who deal with support (they obviously farm it o...

Wireless (CDMA modem) is switched off (I did it in the Bios) I'll try that, and lsusb WIFI up and running Mint is up to 13 now, very complete and windows like, lots of drivers included.. A good option if you want to set up a system for a windows user. Should have the caddy sometime this week (and th...

Pretty sure that there's no Bluetooth, booted into Mint which has a pretty comprehensive device display and there is no Bluetooth listed on the PCI devices.

Great (over the top) spec, but you need a reinforced, heatproof lap to put them on.

Just waiting for a caddy. Got a battery (it was the only part that came with the machine) when booting into Ubuntu, I get a battery run time of 4 hours, but that's with nothing going on, so it's jut to run the screen, at least it's not dead. (it's a blue tab), have to try it for real when I've got i...

Well I haven't even got a hard drive installed and OS yet (booting from USB) but I'm thinking about adding Bluetooth (does this count as modding?) I was looking at the options for bluetooth. (for a keyboard so that I haven't got a USB plug in permanently 1, Factory bluetooth module 2, PCMCIA Module ...

All OK

I just need to 'Toughen up' a bit, Toughbooks aren't fragile like normal laptops.

A bit of Wellie and it let go.

All working as expected now.

Time to go shopping for an HD caddy so I can take the next steps...

Thanks for the help guys

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Must be a bad stick then, the machine won't boot when it's in place.

Yep done that forgot to mention it earlier, noticed when I took out the ram that was stopping it booting, the speaker motherboard connection, so I removed that (and it's cover)first. Tried a couple of pry tools that I got for use on an Iphone, but the'yre plastic and don't even start to move the cov...

The ram I removed that was preventing my CF-18D (which I just bought and am yet to get running) from booting is confusing me a little, so I need some definitive guidance. KVR266X64SC25/512 is the part number on the ram Specs are: Kingston Technology Part No.: KVR266X64SC25/512 Upgrade Size: 512MB Me...