F8 x86_64 and i386 installs hang on Dell Optiplex 320 with Intel Pentium 2160 processor

[Phil Meyer]

Alastair Neil wrote:
> I have a Dell Optiplex 320 with a Pentium dual Dual Core CPU ( 2160).  
> I am trying to boot off of a usb thumb drive with the disk images from 
> the respective full DVD.isos.
>
> Both fail to get past probing the serial ports on boot.  The i386 
> thumb drive has been used successfully to install a Dell 270. 
> Currently both hyperthreading and speedstep are enabled.  I have tried 
> a few kernel parameters, such as pci=nomsi, acpi=off and noacpi to no 
> avail.
>
> Has anyone succeeded in installing F8 on this hardware?
>
> regards, Alastair
>

Always seems to be video related for the optiplexes here.

Go into the Dell BIOS and change the video priority from Auto to on-board.

We have also seen one or two that needed to change SATA mode to regular 
SATA, NOT emulated IDE.

I hope one of those does it for ya.

Good luck.