Cant install W7 64 bit on 2011 imac

I posted this in the imac section, was told to try my luck over here, so ill just copy and paste the same question here.
Hey all, i just got myself a 2011 27" to replace my pc and so far so good. There are a couple of apps and games i use which still require my pc so i wanted to install windows 7 just for these apps.
I have a mid 2010 macbook pro with this same setup and it works perfectly. When i tried to install (using the same disk) windows 7 on the imac, windows setup comes up to a box where it asks me to select an operating system and continue. There is nothing in this box to select from and if i click next it errors out and reboots.
Again ive used this same disk to install windows 7 in the same way on my MBP so not sure whats different here. Im running 10.8.5 on both MBP and imac.
Interesting thing is that this W7 install disk is not one of those that allows you to chose what version you want to install, its a straight W7 64bit pro disk.
furthermore, i have a 32 bit w7 disk which i can chose from home to ultimate, this installs fine, however i dont want to run 32 bit windows as i want to use all of my 8gb of ram.
Confirmed that the 64 bit disk is still working by putting it into my MBP and booting from it, i get to the point where i would partition the disks fine, telling me that its working as intended...
Any suggestions would be welcome
Now to cover off a few things that came up in the other thread, licensing is not an issue here, i have volume licensing.
am installing 32 bit windows now as we speak so i know the super drive works.
64 bit disk will work on my macbook wont work on the imac, 32 bit will work on both...
I have reburnt the 64 bit disk (iso from microsoft), still no luck, same symptom as above.

Did you apply Lenovo driver packages in any specific order? Don't really understand what I missed?
My plan was to do a "clean" W7/64 install and after that run ThinkVantage System Update 4.0 for latest drivers.
In my case ThinkVantage System Update 4.0 could not start without Access Help for Windows 7 installed, that was the first dependency problem.
However, after that ThinkVantage System Update 4.0 run successfully and everything works fine but the ThinkPad Switchable Graphics Driver for Windows 7.
The ThinkVantage System Update 4.0 applied latest updates for everything including the BIOS. When I try to run BIOS update separately for getting around the graphics problem it says BIOS version is OK and no update needed.
Tried to disable Switchable Graphics in BIOS-setup using Discrete but that does not fix my problem?

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