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#1 ejscfp

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Posted 21 October 2012 - 07:35 AM

Hello, I have for sentimental reasons a Panasonic CF W2 that have a strange display problem. When using the battery the displays shuts down in about 1 to 2 minutes but the power led stays on and I can open the cd tray etc. I already try 3 batteries do a complete restore with the recovery disc install a new copy of windows XP and Windows 7. The strange is when I boot in safe mode I have no display problems it works perfect. When using the AC adapter it work OK until I disconnect the AC adapter then the display shuts down. Any help appreciated.

Thanks and sorry for my English

EJS

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Posted 21 October 2012 - 07:39 AM

Have you tried reinstalling the drivers for it? http://www.panasonic...h-downloads.asp

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Posted 21 October 2012 - 07:42 AM

If reinstalling the drivers doesn't work I would go into the power options and change the display options to a longer setting, or even "never".

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#4 ejscfp

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Posted 21 October 2012 - 07:51 AM

Thanks for your help, I already try the power settings option and reinstall everything from factory recovery disk etc but with no results.All drivers all installed in device manager.

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Posted 21 October 2012 - 10:39 AM

What I'm saying about the drivers is that installing the newest ones off Panasonic's site might help - maybe the older ones that came with the laptop have bugs.

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Posted 21 October 2012 - 12:51 PM

Hi and welcome to the forums. Hmmm, that sounds like a power saving thing for the battery seeing as how it works fine from AC. From your description, it seems to obviously be a battery issue of some sort. I am assuming that the batteries all have a full charge on them. I'm wondering how old the batteries are.

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#7 ejscfp

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Posted 21 October 2012 - 05:53 PM

I already try 3 different batteries, one of the batteries works ok in another panasonic model. Please remember that it work OK in save mode. the unit turns off only the display. I can open the cd and listen to the cd running etc.

Thanks for your help

EJS

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 07:32 AM

If you have one, you might want to try it on an external Monitor and see what happens.

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Posted 05 November 2012 - 11:05 PM

try connect the laptop to the external monitor and see if the same display problem happens.

try reseat the RAM.
Maybe the laptop power module and/or the video card is having the problem.

Hope this helps.
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