Windows Server on an IA-64

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I know this is a long shot...

We have bought some Dell poweredge 3250 servers which are itatium-2 based servers, using a efi boot manager.

We have tried to install the following server products on them

Windows Server 2003 for IA-64
Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for itatium.
Windows XP 64 for IA-64
Windows longhorn server for IA-64

We have not yet been sucessful in installing windows, all that is happening is the setup process starts , then when it gets to the section that starts windows (the screen where you press enter to begin setup) the server just goes to a flashing cursor in the top left corner of the screen.

I was wondering if

A) Any one had seen this before
B) any one has had experience installing windows on a PE-3250


Thanks in advance

Brett
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