[SOLVED] CF-19 MK6, cannot find drivers for it. Please help!

[david.a.williamson1994]

Hello, I have a a CF-191DAU7DA. I got it from an IT recycling place I volunteer at as thanks for good work. I put Windows 10 on it. Most features work great like the touchscreen and stylus, after a bit I realized it has a camera and GPS module installed.

They do not work despite being enabled in the BIOS, I have tinkered with the settings a bit, no joy. Windows cannot automatically locate drivers for them, and my searches for drivers online lead me to crazy complex, incredibly dense lists of files, model numbers etc, and none of them are designed for Windows 10, none of the ones I've tried thus far have worked nor produced any change either in front-end performance nor the device manager, and I'm lost. I've installed an offline mapping utility, "MapFactor", which cannot locate any output from my GPS. Even trying to find GPS software online is proving frustratingly fruitless.

Does anyone know how I can get drivers for this machine? Do I have to downgrade to Windows 7 in order to get compatible drivers? I just want to get the GPS working, camera would be a small bonus.

Cheers for any help you can provide.

 

[Colif]

is this it? https://www.panasonic.com/au/suppor...ughbook-2-in-1-convertible-laptops/cf-19.html or is that a newer model with same name?

laptop came with win 7 on it, released in 2014 so may not be any win 10 drivers.
Only sites claiming to have drivers aren't sites I would trust.

Win 7 might be best choice if you want full support. Finding actual drivers is still a struggle, I can't find that unit on the panasonic site

 

[david.a.williamson1994]

Cheers, looks like that might be my best bet. Dunno if the place I volunteer at has Win7, but I'll check it out. Out of curiosity, is it possible to get the Win7/8.1 drivers and get them working under Win10?

 

[Colif]

Win 10 will only run drivers that have been submitted to MIcrosoft for testing with win 10. If you try to install them, it ignores you. If you got them onto PC somehow, it wouldn't run them anyway as they now signed to work with win 10.

You could, however, install win 7 and then update it to win 10 as it will use the drivers then... its a loophole. Win 10 will use the drivers if they were already installed on a previous version of windows, but clean install win 10, and that benefit no longer exists.

 

[david.a.williamson1994]

Thankyou, that's very helpful and I'll file that little tidbit.

Cheers again.