My 880GMA-E45 won't read Windows 7 Install disc! Please help me!!!

Hello everyone!  I bought an MSI 880GMA-E45 mobo a few days ago and until now, I can't find a way to install Windows 7 Ultimate on the thing.  I tried installing Vista Starter and it worked perfectly.  I also installed Ubuntu 10.04 from a USB stick, and it also worked fine (on the 2nd attempt). But I've been trying my darndest to install Windows 7, which is going to be the system's main OS, and it seems to refuse to read the installation disc. 
I installed Vista, booted up, then inserted the Win 7 disc, and it still can't be seen in My Computer!!!  Is this a common problem with this mobo or did I get a bum board?  I've tried changing DVD drives (several times) to no avail. 
I've been at it for the 3rd day now, still no luck with Windows 7.  Please help. I know I'm doing the installation correctly since I got Vista installed on it 3 times already and Ubuntu twice.  I've done numerous Win 7 installations on other PCs but this is the first time that I've had problems like this.  I'm really at the end of my wits here...
BTW, the Windows 7 Installation disc works file when I tested it on another machine, so that can't be the problem.
Here's the setup:
MSI 880GMA-E45
AMD Athlon II x2 245
Gskill Ripjaws X  2x2Gb DDR3-1333
Nvidia GTX-460 1Gb Video Card (I tried it with and without this installed)
WD Caviar Green 1Tb HDD (Where Vista is right now)
Seagate 160Gb Barracuda SATA (Where Ubuntu is)
3 x 80Gb Eaglestor SATA HDDs  (to be installed as a RAID0 array and where Windows 7 will go)

Quote from: Fredrik on 18-October-11, 23:32:59
" Hello!
You most likely have a memory problem. Use as little hardware as possible when installing, and only one of everything, no extra cards or USB things. One stick of memory for example, and should the problem remain try the other. "
Hello Fredrik!
I tried that already using 4 sticks of RAM inserted one at a time.  It didn't work either.
I already found the solution!  Here's everything I did in detail...
On another computer, I formatted a USB stick using NTFS, then made it bootable using DISKPART and BOOTSECT.  I wasn't sure if those bootable USB stick software would give the same result.  In my case, I wanted everything to be as basic and as native Windows as possible.
Then copied all the contents of the Windows 7 installer disc to the USB stick, inserted the stick to one of the the rear USB ports in my PC, then booted from there.  I didn't set the BIOS boot from the stick anymore.  I just used F11 instead.  It booted up properly, then went on to install Windows normally.  I just had to have the RAID drivers on the USB stick as well, since I knew Windows would be looking for it from all the Vista installs I made earlier...  
Now, everything works as it should.
BTW, is there a problem with this mobo and IDE DVD drives?  That was one of my theories.  Since all the DVD drives I used in the failed installations of Win 7 were IDE drives except one, which was an external USB drive.  It didn't occur to me to try and use a SATA DVD drive.  Besides, I didn't have access to SATA DVD drives at the time anyway, so I had no choice.  Do you think it could have worked?
Also, I emailed MSI tech support who suggested I flash the BIOS.  It didn't work either and the mobo ended up not booting and getting stuck after POSTing at the "Checking NVRAM" message, so I reflashed it to the original BIOS version.
I hope my mis-adventures with this mobo and my solution would be of help to someone someday as I don't think this is an isolated case.  I seem to have read somewhere in a forum about a similar problem that happened several months back but the thread was closed without the solution being posted.
Thank you to everyone who gave their opinions!
PS:  I almost bought a new Gigabyte motherboard earlier today because I was already getting frustrated with this one.  Good thing I didn't....       

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