The monster has arrived

So my new notebook is an Alienware Area-51m. It's really, really fast, and looks great, but as of now, it doesn't get past the boot screen when I try to install Longhorn. The Longhorn boot screen starts fading in and the machine locks up. Win03 and XP work just fine ("great!" I should say). So I am sitting here, fiddling around with the install options and I am suspecting that something in the BIOS isn't quite like Longhorn expects it to be. To be continued ...