I have two new Dell machines. One is a XPS-B733r the other is a XPS-T700r. Both have the Quantum Atlas 10K (18gig) hard drive and Adaptec 2940u2 controller. I eventually got NT on these machines by making Disks and skipping the auto detection process and then feeding it the adaptec driver. This is the only way it would detect the hard drive in the machines. Booting off the CD and/or original Disks wouldn't work.
Anyway, everything else went smooth (i.e video drivers,NT sp 3-6,etc) until I tried to get IE5.0 to install on them. I can get 4.01sp1 to install, but not 5.0. the download goes fine but then I get "setup was unable to install all componets. Close all aplication and try running setup again". there are no application running during this setup error.
I swapped in a 2940uw and maxtor SCSI II hard drive and the install goes as it should. There is something about the Atlas 10K/2940u2 combo with these machines that is choking the IE5.0 install. If anyone has any hints or tips I would appreciate the assistance very much.
 
 
Thanx,
 
Rick McNeeley
Digital Anvil-Network/Systems Support