P6N Diamond - Vista/XP won't install.

I have Vista Home Premium x64 and I went to install for testing before I registered it. I then see I can install any version of Vista, so I decide to try Vista Ultimate to see how different it is from Home Premium. Anyway, the trial period for Ultimate expired and I can't seem to install Winodws at all now, not even XP. Vista just sits at the device screen and shows no drives at all and I try to load drivers and still nothing. I even tried turning on RAID with no help. I have used the drivers from MSI's website as well as nvidia's and nothing.
When I try XP though, it BSOD and locks up completely just as it goes into the first page of installation after setup has loaded drivers and such. I ran chkdsk /f and reset BIOS and nothing helps. I can still log into my expired Vista install just fine and vista see it there and all is fine in the BIOS as well. I even grabbed another HD with same issues.
I find it very strange Windows boots up on the drive, but won't install to it?
I just looked at MSI's website and 3.1 is still the current BIOS. Did MSI completely dumps this board? It's been almost a full year since the last BIOS was released and nvidia has released several fixes to the BIOS since, so I know there are available patches to install. I sure hope they plan to provide support for this flagship motherboard when it was released, I mean they provided like 3-4 months of support and then dump it?
Thanks for any help on getting this drive to work on Windows.
-=Mark=-
ps. I just finished installing ubuntu on it with no problems at all.

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Anyway, the trial period for Ultimate expired and I can't seem to install Winodws at all now, not even XP. Vista just sits at the device screen and shows no drives at all and I try to load drivers and still nothing.
I find it very strange Windows boots up on the drive, but won't install to it?
Gee, maybe another of M$'s tricks. They want you to buy the full version of Vista Ultimate?

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