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when i installed w10 on this and a few others a fire warning came up automatically and did a firmware update of the battery.
cf-c2, my cf-s10, many of those

You can find replacement motherboards. I bought a parts machine a while back for the touchscreen, fully working but missing the keyboard. I wanted the digitizer version screen. ebay is your best bet.

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I use a cf-c2. I have used it with 8 and 16g of ram with no issues. It has the stock bios.
There was a factory recall for batteries for this model for fire issues. When i installed windows it auto install a firmware update for the battery. same thing on my cf-s10's

i have used ide to msata and they work fine and make a old machine fast. even have 1 running in a pentium 2 laptop. Msata was abundant a few years ago and cheap

Its cheap enough. I dont have that model but you might be able to make it fit by grinding away some of the inside. I did similar to a cf-h2, added internal usb card to power internal gps and made usb type-c port

I tried the pin mod with the newer style intel ax200 with bluetooth 5. The pin mod did not work on this card in a cf-c2. I could only get the wifi to work but no bluetooth. not a big deal. the card worked in a lenovo t440. some models have more ports inside and i was able to put internal pcie to usb...

There doesnt seem to be much for the older models and anything from Japan. there are a few web sites that you need to pay to get the bios dumps. I have done 2 now. I can program the bios so far on cf-rz5 and cf-s10. I would like to compare to an original bios though. I unlocked the cf-s10 but it sho...

Looking to get driver and bios updates or original for the let's note series. They are hard to find since most of the old models i have seem to be discontinued on the panasonic site. Also trying to navigate in Japanese is a challenge. This site should a make host a dl for drivers or maybe one of us ...

Something neat happened. I bought a few cf-s10. When i installed windows it automatically downloaded a panasonic warning about the battery recall. It did a battery update to new firmware. It was a red screen showing fire. That also happened on my cf-c2 a couple years ago

There are so many different and cute models for the Japanese. I find it interesting that you can still get new laptops with dvd roms. I probably bought around 10 different ones this past year, covid boredom. I will have to post some things I learned. I been experimenting with bios. I bought a couple...