I don't anything about alienware specifically, try going into the BIOS and disabling ACPI or things such as Firewire or anything else you don't need to boot. Then after install, you can re-enable one by one to see what is causing the hang.
I had a Hypersonic machine that just would not boot with Firewire enabled.
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