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Trying to acquire system restore disk ISO for Compaq Presario 1220 laptop

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First post, by pirozhki

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Hello all, I recently acquired and repaired a Compaq Presario 1220 laptop. I am looking to restore it to a factory original state and have scoured around the web for recovery disks but have came up with nothing, In fact it seems there is a lack of information on this specific model of machine, (I will contribute what I know and have learned by dismantling two of them below) I am wondering if anyone has the disk and is willing to make a ISO of it and/or has a link to a ISO of it. now on to the information about the computer

The Compaq Presario 1220 series 2940A 203/205 is a Cyrix GXm 200MHz socket7 based laptop from about 1997 - 2000
It came stock with 32MBs of ram upgradeable to a max of 96MBs
A silhouette 32160-GEN-01 2.1GB 4200RPM IDE HDD
A 20X CD-ROM (if it is the Toshiba XM-1062B version it can read CD-RW disks but is picky about the disks)
A 1.44MB floppy disk drive

Integrated peripherals & I/O
SHARP LM12S471 12" passive matrix HPA LCD display
9.6V 3.5AHr NI-MH removable battery
1 parallel port
1 RJ-11 telephone jack (for integrated 56k modem)
1 PS/2 port 1 9-pin serial port
1 VGA port
synaptics TM1202SPU-134-5 touchpad
JBLpro speakers
1 PCMCIA card slot

Motherboard components

A Cyrix GXm 200MHz Enhanced with MMX technology
NeoMagic MagicGraphz128ZV+ NM2097A Graphics chipset
DALLAS DS1685S-5 probably a Real Time clock with external battery (uses CR1220 coin cells) could also be a CMOS chip
SMC FDC37C669QF P I/O Controller
A Cirrus Logic CL-P06710-VC-B PCMCIA card controller
A Mitsubishi Electrics H8/3434 HD64F3434TF16 flash memory of some kind
8 NEC D4516821AG5-A10-7JF cache chips
A flashable EPPROM for holding the BIOS

It does not have a SCSI connector like Wikipedia says it does
The metal hinges are fragile and stiff if not lubricated
The wrist rest is rubberized and may become sticky with time
The power connector can be fragile if too much stress is applied

The motherboard is a damaged and is one I replaced in the laptop pictured

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Reply 1 of 2, by smoke86

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I hope this will not be seen as necroposting.
If my memory serves me well, I think that Compaq made restore CD for entire Presario 1200 series on one CD.

Since you are from Canada, you may like English version:
https://archive.org/details/compaq-quick-rest … e-presario-1200

or French version:
https://archive.org/details/rpoemea-08-q-4

Reply 2 of 2, by pirozhki

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smoke86 wrote on 2022-09-15, 18:33:
I hope this will not be seen as necroposting. If my memory serves me well, I think that Compaq made restore CD for entire Presar […]
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I hope this will not be seen as necroposting.
If my memory serves me well, I think that Compaq made restore CD for entire Presario 1200 series on one CD.

Since you are from Canada, you may like English version:
https://archive.org/details/compaq-quick-rest … e-presario-1200

or French version:
https://archive.org/details/rpoemea-08-q-4

Sorry for the month late reply but It just so happens that those two disks are the first ones I tried. I had issues with both and ended up conglomerating a bunch of drivers and Rompaqs I found into a makeshift recovery disk. I also found some of the installers for important software like the trackpad and multimedia HUD on the Hard Drive of the donor machine. I will eventually release a unofficial recovery CD package on Archive.org that includes: drivers, wallpapers, particular applications that help in data transfer to and from the machine, etc. I hope it will come in handy to other people that have a Presario 1220.

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