Comment 27 for bug 989677

I have a dell studio xps 1340
Same type of failure with both arch and the latest ubuntu live cd

I made it boot up with using
and adding

acpi = off
pnpbios=off

to the boot options

I haven't tried an install yet, but probably you will need to add this to your default boot options for your new install to work as well.

I will try it later in the next couple days and post back