Ok after about 5 days of harassing the techsupport guys they finally gave me a new techie.. that actually knew what was goin on.. apparently oem versions of xp have a bug in them where they cant take certain s-ata hard drives. To fix that i just used my parents retail version of XP, hit f6 for the drivers and it installed perfectly without any problems.

For those that have a gigabyte ga-k8n pro motherboard you need to use the drivers for a raid configuration the si3112r drivers with your bios set to "raid function as base" if you only have one hard drive. Contrary to what the manual says about using the 3112 driver for only one hd.

Hope this helps some of the fellow sata users probs.