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"Error Loading OS" with Vista?

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Ok i have a p5q deluxe,Q6600,Vista64bit,4850 asus,750w Corsair PSU, Samsung20x DVDRW drive & a WD6400AAKS HDD & a Maxtor 120gb (ribbon style HDD not sata)

Ok i got the P5q Deluxe about 2 weeks ago was able to install Vista64bit on the WD6400 HDD no problem but somehow ended up getting no display the next day no beeps at boot up nothing ended up calling asus and they just told me to RMA it which i did...
So Today i received the new P5Q Deluxe installed everything again and booted up to see a "NO hard disk detected" error ived read about that error and i got it last time on the other mobo but this time the HDD doesnt show up if i put it on the red Sata ports (i know it doesnt show up on the orange but should show up on the red)

So i decided to try the other HDD the Maxtor 120gb which was a slave on my old rig and has only 20gb of stuff in it so i figured id just install vista there and RMA the WD HD to them.

Booted up and displayed perfectly put the DVDRW as the Initial boot set the HDD as 2nd and put the vista disk in... booted up and i get a "ERROR Loading OS" and it doesnt change from that... ever ived tried many diff configuartions i havent tried to OC anything since i cant even get vista to boot up or the disk that comes with the mobo (when i put that one in i just get the message to press a key to load up a boot device/cd which neither works).

So im serioulsy confused on this vista wont boot up due to "Error Loading OS" with a fresh HDD and the WD HDD doesnt even display as if its connected anymore & thats where i installed Vista yet still disconnected i get a error loading OS message when the other HD has never had a OS to begin with... any help?
 
Just to update i formatted the Maxtor HDD because i read about the MBR perhaps being the culprit and no go...
It recognizes the Maxtor HDD but doesn't let me boot up if i put the DVD drive as first boot and the HDD as 2nd with the Vista DVD inside to install...
or vice versa for that matter. Everything is setup IDE as default under the "Configure Sata as" I have IDE/RAID/AHCI
I have tried AHCI but that doesn't do anything and of course i wont bother with raid since this isn't a sata HDD nor i have 2 of them

The Onboard Devices also has the option to Disable "Marvell IDE or Marvell IDE BOOT ROM" which if i do it doesn't recognize the HDD so i have to keep that enabled (i read on other posts people suggesting that but didn't work)

& Again i have the Boot device priority as:
1st boot: CDROM CDDVDW sh-s20
2nd boot: IDE Maxtor
3rd boot: Disabled

I know that it not being a sata HDD (being older ribbon style) couldn't be the issue could it? i mean its recognized but doesn't let me boot up the DVD drive to get a Vista screen only this damn "error loading OS"
 
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