Recovery CD Nonsense

[revolutionary_one]

OK, so i got the restore disks from a cousin. I'm restoring right now. Never have i EVER had such a horrendous experience to get Sleep Mode working correctly on any machine. IBM's dealings with MS proprietary nonsense is pricey and rediculous. On the other hand, I'm going to try to uninstall the bloat and resize the ntfs partition so i can dual boot. Has anyone done a clean install and installed nothing but chipset and powermanagement drivers and had such trouble (SP2 didnt solve a thing)? Even IBM wont support a clean install

[jeeva]

Simply, no I didn't, just reinstalled xp a few days ago, tried to install everything from within device manager to keep Windows free of extra tools I don't need, installed IBM apps and my programs, no problems...
For the sleep mode you only need the IBM PM Device, it is listed as yellow question mark, if you visit Windows Update, you'll get the driver, from IBMs site.