Hello,
I recently purchased a Dell Precision 490 workstation from a used PC shop which is a Dell premier partner. The specs are: 1x Intel Xeon 5120, 4GB RAM, 80GB HDD, ATI FireGL V7200. When I got the PC, it had 7 Ultimate 64 installed on it, which the video card doesn't fully support. So, I decided to roll back to XP Pro with an install disk from Dell. When I tried to do so, I was able to boot off the disk, and it "finished copying installation files" and restarted. When it restarted, it wouldn't boot the installer, didnt respond to keyboard commands yet made a single BIOS beep, and is now stuck at a screen saying.
Serial ATA ACHI BIOS, Version iSrc 1.02.25 07222007
Copyright whatever
Copyright whahtever
Controller Bus#00, Decice #1F, Function#02: 05 Ports, 01 devices
How can I get XP to install now? And fix this problem? The BIOS boot selection won't work, and I tried pulling the CMOS batt with no avail. When I try calling Dell for support, they aren't very helpful because the PC isn't registered to my name, which I would like it to be, since I'm the new owner!
Thanks,
Matt