Pavilion M7 with SSD

Hello folks,
I am having some grief with a getting my new Pavillion m7 (1015dx) to work with my OCZ Agility 4.
BIOS does not seem to believe there is a disk available when it is plugged in.
Now, I also have a new Pavillion m6 (1045dx) , and the very same drive works like a charm in the m6 with 15 second boot times. It is my understanding that both these machines shares essentially the same Ivy Bridge chipsets, and the BIOS looks identical from a configuraiton point of view.
Anybody knows what would be different between the m6 and the m7?
-T

The plot thickens.
I ran a bios upgrade to Version:F.0A (2012-05-11).
I now get "A disk read error occurred".
When I reinstall the OS on the SSD, the Windows 7 installation executable detects the drive just fine, copies the W7 software to the disk and attempts restart. "A disk read error occurred".
Would be easier to diagnose if I had a way to get into an EFI shell, but can find no such beast on the m7...
I am currently conducting normal BIOS based installs.

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Windows 7 x64, MacBook Pro, frequent CHKDSK after HDD firmware update
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