Some Advice needed for a IFL90

I have reformated a IFL90 and put on XP Home Edition. The Vista Ultimate expierence was a nightmare.

I have a some of questions concerning installing XP Home.

1. I had to disable the ACHI in the bios in order for the XP installition utility to recognize the Seagate 160gig Sata Harddrive. I have XP installed now and my questions are, do I enable the ACHI option in the Compal IFL90?? And can install the Intel Matrix Storage Manager slash Sata-Achi driver? Or will things blow-up in the bios ??.
2.Do I install the TPM1.2_Infineon driver? I really don't understand what it does. It is about 5:30AM and I am starting to lose my concentration. Good thing I quit drinking along time ago..

I have installed all of the drivers except for the TPM, and Finger print driver from the Compal website.

Thank-You for Listening and Reading.
The things we do for Family.

Logger

 

This method worked perfectly for me: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=164159.
What happened on Vista that made you hate it?

 

Thanks for the reply Ayle. Vista Ultimate crashed dead in the water on a regular basis. It is my Sister inlaws machine. The brief time I had it, Vista would hardlock on me every couple of hours. Any multitasking and down she went. (Not my sisterinlaw Oops) but the laptop. It had 2 gigs of ram with Centrino core duo. SO I think it had the horsepower. Oh well I got Xp installed with the ACHI disabled. I think ACHI enabled just enabled the NCQ function for the harddrive??

When I find a spare harddrive, I will clone the original with Acronis and try the method you posted.

Thank You
Logger