I too am having no luck installing Yosemite on an Optiplex 755
Optiplex 755
Core 2 Quad Q9400
5Gb RAM
GeForce 210 1Gb
I'm running 10.7.5 with the occasional crash at boot
When I try to install Yosemite, it crashes before I can choose an install location. I think it has to do with AHCI.