20 Most Recent Panasonic Toughbook 48 Notebook - Page 2 Questions & Answers

Hi

thank you for your query

The best place to look would be Ebay

I have had a look for you and there at present only full keyboard for sale, they are only approx $18 + the shipping

There are no single keys, but i would advise this is the best place as eventually somebody may advertise the key

I hope this helps

I would suggest you pull out your ram, hdd and dvd. Then put them back in with ram first. You should then find out if any of the devices you have taken out might have caused the fault.

Below is a link to Panasonic toughbook 48 series support. You will need to register an account to have availability to drivers for you notebook.

http://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TCCHomePage?langId=-1&storeId=15001&catalogId=13401

I hope that you found this information helpful. If so, please leave positive feedback for me.

Thank You,

Brian

the hard drive is located under the keyboard in toughbooks

http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/computers-beginners/opening-toughbook-cf-47-a-25391.html
note its for CF47 but they are similar
As for not booting fully that could be a number of things, maybe you have tried these.......you have power so a reset might not help but still try it, remove battery and ac power hold power button down for 40 seconds. Try running also just on ac and then just on battery. Have you tried to run the machine in safe mode pressing F8 on boot. Even though it could be corrupt data or damaged HD worth trying the simple stuff.
hope helps a bit, get back to me if i can help at all

The Toughbook CF-48 has no built in wireless.

typically, there is a switch on the front or side of the computer, that must be flipped to on. sometimes you must you a function command. look at the "f" keys, on them will be faintly drawn pictures, you are looking for one that looks like an antenna or some lightning bolts. press and hold the "Fn" key, located at the bottom row of keys, then tap the antenna while still holding down the "Fn" key.

It could be possible if the hard drive isnt too far gone, are you able to use it at all? have you tried to hook it up to a different laptop and see if you can access it from that? You'll probably be better off getting a list of anything that you can re-download and storing the irreplaceable stuff such as sensitive documents onto a disk. If you can do this then just reformat the hard disk and get it over with. You stand to be in for quite a headache trying to copy all your files off your hard disk and making sure all the files arent corrupted. This stands especially true if your hard disk has malware or a virus.

here is the link for modem drivers http://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/public/soft_first/cf-48/modem_48_5_d030179.exe

Sound drivers
http://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/public/soft_first/cf-48/sound_48_5_d030277.exe

Check your mains adapter plug that connects into the laptop power socket with a multi-meter, the voltage should be slightly higher than the voltage that is printed on the label on the bottom of the adapter. If the voltage is zero or way below the voltage that is printed on the label then the power adapter is faulty and needs to be replaced.

If the adapter is OK then connect it to the laptop and power it up, then look at the power/battery charging LED light and wriggle the power plug in the laptop's power socket. If the power/battery LED light flashes and in a certain position this LED light stays firm, then the power socket is either faulty or it has a dry solder joint where it is connected to the motherboard.
This can be repaired but it requires the laptop to be completely dismantled to get at this power socket and repair. I suggest you get a quote first.

It is possible that a "Chip" on the mainboard has a "cold" solder or broken solder connectios and they will de-solder the chip and re-solder all the connections. Depending on the chip, the number of connections that need to be soldered and the size of the solders would be the determining factors if you would want to take on the job.

You need to reinstall windows

Please go into BIOS and there you will be able to look for an option sata ahci enabled please disable that option and then windows XP will be able to detect your hard drive and then install windows xp on the machine. moreover please install windows XP first and then windows vista, thats what the process says

If you remove the CMOS battery for about 30 seconds, replace it, and boot the system. Password should now be gone.

Hi,

you can purchase the recovery CD from

http://www.user-guides.co.uk/asp/product.asp?product=61796

for a fee of 5£ (pounds)

Try hitting F8 right when Windows starts up. You will get a text menu with options. Try "last known good configuration" and see if that helps. If it doesn't you may be able to get it working by reinstalling XP and choosing "Repair",which will try and replace all your windows files with the original ones.

If that doesnt work then you will have to reload XP from scratch. If you have to do that then install service pack 2 before any other software or drivers.

Panasonic wants you to register with their site before you get access to their drivers.
You can register here and then you should be able to download your drivers from them.

Dear Ali,
you can download the drivers for your Toughbook , from this site:
https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pc/cgi-bin/itn/toughbook/dl01.cgi

Cheerup and be Happy always

you have to remove or unplug the cmos battery which is attached to the motherboard inside the laptop, doing this will clear all passwords. If the password clears replace the battery.
Here is some more usefull info if you want to this yourself>
The guts of the machine are usually under the keyboard. If you are okaywith opening up the laptop, you'll need to remove a few screws, thebattery and the hard drive, then carefully pry up the keyboard to gainaccess to the items that the manufacturers say you shouldn't tamperwith. If its just a matter of getting into the bios and theres apassword, you can usually simply remove the battery and leave itwithout power for at least 24hours, then it should reset....doesn'talways work but since most laptops actually do not have a standard cmosbattery, this would be one way to go about it. Of course you could justtry to figure out what the password is, someone has to have put it inthere so they should know what it is, or you could go to http://tcc.toughbook.com/ and get the bios update, which will reset it completely.

you may need the latest codec pack, here is the web address:

http://www.xpcodecpack.com/download

hope this solves your problem