I could be wrong about this, but I have had problems installing operating systems on dell machines (newer machines) that did not come directly from DELL; there could be hardware that is expecting 64 bit software to be installed. There also could be something in the hardware that does not allow non-new dell software to be installed.
I wish you well and hope this helps.
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by: oipunx4lifePosted on 2007-11-23 at 08:32:15ID: 20339688
Have you upgraded to the newest version on Nite? I recently had a similar issue, which gave me numerous headaches until I installed 3.0.
On Intel's website, they generally have a floppy disk creation utility per controller, did you use it, or just extract an OEM driver down to the *.inf file?
In past experience with newer SATA/RAID/AHCI controllers, I have found slipstreaming the drivers to be way more effective then F6'ing it.