OK, the issue came back. I have a feeling Vista is borking the bios somehow. It installs one time after clearing the cmos, but then i think it rearranges something, and then after refuses to install gain. Maybe I need to disable Plug and play os or something. I dont know.

Anyway, I am now running xp x64 smoothly. I wish there was a resolution to this. Arggghhh!!!!