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Hard wired. You must make sure to cut the pins off pretty completely. I bent them back and forth with hemostats. Worked a treat!

The laptop's motherboard is made by IBM, if this is any help. Panasoic's tech support gives no hope of an official update...

I have a CF-25 MKIII, and the newest version is v14

I find the CF-25 an outstanding laptop, very rugged and capable, but the Bios is a catastrophy. There are no updates for windows 2000, Int13h limits it to a 8.4 gig drive (I know, but I don't want to use an overlay!) the system doesn't support most cardbus (32 bit) cards in XP or Win2000 even though...

DANG!!! Gentlemen, I stand before you a humble man. I checked my continuity again and discovered that pin Y37 had a cold joint, which led to loss of conductivity. I was afraid that in soldering I might destroy the CPU, and in my haste to solder, I must not have adequetly heated the pin. Long story ...

You are correct, I should have used a current limiting resistor and will put one on chip. Do you have any reccomendations as to value? I have a few SMD resistors that might do the job. :oops: I did check the bottom of the CPU via the pins to establish continuity, which was good. It would be very int...

I am also working on a Panasonic CF-25 MkIII. Well, I soldered pins y33 and x34 to pin y37 on top of the plasic case of a pentium 233, and then cut pins y33 and x34 off and covered the spot on the chip where the pins were with paint on mask. The dang laptop runs, but only as a 166! what gives ? The ...