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First post, by aLinux

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hello
i recently got a compaq 7792dmt but i cant find any drivers online (only spam/scam websites) or a restore cd/floppy.
if someone please know a link it would be nice.

Reply 1 of 7, by Strahssis

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If I can't find the drivers for the laptop itself, I will usually just look up a specifications sheet and search for all the hardware drivers individually. Usually drivers will turn up then. Have you tried this approach yet? I added the specification sheet for your laptop in the attachments. Good luck!

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Mimi: AMD K6-2/266, S3 Trio64, Diamond Monster 3D II, Sound Blaster CT2800, 32MB RAM
Satellite 220CS: Pentium 133, SVGA DSTN, Sound Blaster Pro, 64MB RAM
Contura 420CX: 486DX4 75, VGA TFT, Roland Serial MIDI, 16MB RAM

Reply 2 of 7, by Strahssis

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On a quick search already found this one for you: Looking for Drivers: S3 Aurora64V+ video card on Compaq Presario 3020 All in One

Mimi: AMD K6-2/266, S3 Trio64, Diamond Monster 3D II, Sound Blaster CT2800, 32MB RAM
Satellite 220CS: Pentium 133, SVGA DSTN, Sound Blaster Pro, 64MB RAM
Contura 420CX: 486DX4 75, VGA TFT, Roland Serial MIDI, 16MB RAM

Reply 3 of 7, by AmiSapphire

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HP's FTP server, assuming you have a browser that can view FTP servers (or use a real FTP client in the first place). ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/
Then you have to navigate the utterly confusing SoftPAQ layout that HP inherited (then adopted!) from Compaq themselves. There is an allfiles.txt from late 2002 that is some help...
There is also https://archive.org/download/ftp.compaq.com, but browsing that is unreliable, so I mirrored it to my home server a few years ago in 2018: http://cwcyrix.duckdns.org/ftp-archives/ftp.c … om/pub/softpaq/

SP4765 is one that has been found; meant for Win95, but may work with Win98. However...

SP16085 - Compaq Personal Computer Diagnostics [10.40 Rev A]
SP11375 - Last ROMPaq upgrade for Armada 7300/7700 series [June 03 1999]
SP9962 - Armada Specific Models Computer Setup for Portables [Version 2.01 Rev. J] - Needed to change BIOS-related settings. Can either be on floppy disk or on a hard disk partition.
SP9299 - Armada Specific Models Erratic Mouse Drivers for Windows 95/98/NT 4.0
SP6300 - S3 Video Driver for Windows 95/98 - Supersedes SP4765 that was already found.
SP6299 - ESS Audio Drivers for Windows 95/98 - Supersedes SP4764.
SP5749 - Armada 7300/7700 PCMCIA Configuration Update (Windows 95 OSR2)
SP5659 - IDE CD-ROM Driver for Portable Computers (DOS/Windows 3.x)
SP4934 - ESS Audio Drivers (Windows 3.1)
SP4870 - Real Mode Support (Windows 95)

This list is in no way complete; this omits OS/2 and NT4 stuff and most other files for that unit. Also, apparently some Compaq restore CDs are on the Internet Archive, but I would have to scrutinize those first.

Site update: cwcyrix.duckdns.org -> cwcyrix.nsupdate.info due to the former no longer working.

Reply 4 of 7, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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As @AmiSapphire has posted above, or if you follow these old archived links (some have newer updates than above) you'll at least get the SoftPAQ filenames to search for, depending on which OS you'll be using...

Windows 3.x and MS-DOS - https://web.archive.org/web/20000618224959/ht … ES/US/1_64.html

Windows 95 - https://web.archive.org/web/20000605033422/ht … ES/US/2_64.html

Windows 98 - https://web.archive.org/web/20000622003555/ht … ES/US/7_64.html

Windows NT Workstation 3.5 and 3.51 - https://web.archive.org/web/20000606051820/ht … ES/US/3_64.html

Windows NT Workstation 4.0 - https://web.archive.org/web/20000608051940/ht … ES/US/6_64.html

IBM OS/2 - https://web.archive.org/web/20000616172240/ht … ES/US/4_64.html

Reply 7 of 7, by freesofia

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http://hpnotebookdrivers.com/compaq-armada-77 … ws-3-1-drivers/
http://hpnotebookdrivers.com/compaq-armada-77 … s-3-11-drivers/
http://hpnotebookdrivers.com/compaq-armada-77 … ows-95-drivers/
http://hpnotebookdrivers.com/compaq-armada-77 … ows-98-drivers/
http://hpnotebookdrivers.com/compaq-armada-77 … t-3-51-drivers/

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