Ok let's see what I can learn here.
I recently acquired a CF-31SFL731M . Bumped it to 8gb and ssd right off the back. It boots mint 64 bit from usb easily enough. Just HATES any w10 64 bit attempts. So looking at starting basic with 7 64 bit and trying to work it up from there. OR just running with mint as it's my goto system.
I had a Mk6 19 here about about two years ago I had to do that on. 7 first then upgrade. Also had to do a alienware R4 aurora for my son like that. All are from around the same time frame computer wise.