Panasonic Toughbook CF-53 and Windows XP?

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Hi @Dietmar

 

I recently purchased a Panasonic Toughbook CF-53 off of ebay with the intention of turning it into a rugged XP laptop to last for years.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/256347295953

My assumption was that there would be XP drivers for everything in this laptop, except for perhaps the internal wifi.

This turned out to be true, I found drivers for everything in this laptop except for the internal wifi, which I worked around by purchasing this USB wifi dongle.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/336201595217?var=545751826956

There is even an XP driver for it in the driver download for it.

https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=664&menu_id=297

I know it doesn't list XP on the site, but the driver for XP is in there and it works.

Unfortunately, I've run into an issue where even though the Integrated Intel HD 4400 chip has XP drivers and they do install correctly.

https://www.upload.ee/files/12999940/WinXP32_Last_driver_4000_.zip.html

Upon reboot I always get a 0x50 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD at boot.

I'm not skilled enough to figure out why this BSOD is happening.

Can I ask you to purchase one of these laptops and find out what is causing the Intel GPU driver to BSOD? It's got XP drivers so it really should just work.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/256347295953

I can contribute some of the $500CAD to help purchase this if you need it. The one I got is pristine, pretty much unused and brand new which is good.

I'd really like you help to get this laptop to work in XP.

Would you be interested in this? (I had written this as a PM at first but apparently you can't receive them?)

[HarryTri]

How are you sure that the Intel GPU driver is the cause of the BSOD? Did you have this problem from the beginning? Maybe you should try to install Windows XP again in case it helps? Also it could be a hardware problem even if the laptop is "brand new" (I suppose that it must have been manufactured lots of years before now).

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@HarryTri

The BSOD always happens whenever I install the Intel GPU driver and then reboot.

This happens even on a new fresh XP install with nothing else installed.

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@Dietmar

I'm willing to try with LAN debugging if you're willing to help me get it set up and can help me find what to look for.

I won't have the Intel Graphics driver symbols though.

[HarryTri]

Are you sure that you are installing the correct driver? It seems to be a case of incompatibility...

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@HarryTri

Yes I'm installing the right driver.