K8T Mstr2-FAR7: "Setup is starting Windows" but never is

I am having a problem of reinstalling WXP x64 on SATA HDD. The installation process stalled after display of "Setup is starting Windows" was closed and black screen stayed. I tried it again with all peripheral devices, PCI cards, printer, etc removed except the monitor but to no avail.
I attempted to install WXP x64 on PATA for experimental purpose and on the way I hit F6 and loaded SATA drivers then the same problem repeated.
I installed WXP x64 on PATA without loading SATA drivers, then I installed SATA drivers but the SATA HDDs were indicated to be "Uninitialized"
I tried installing WXP x86 on SATA and found there was no such problem.
The WXP x64 shown in my sig was installed on K8T Master2-FAR. About a year ago the mobo was replaced with the present one and all HDDs were moved to the present mobo.  After the move I confirmed all previously install OSes worked. But now I am having difficulty reinstalling WXP x64.
I used the same SATA drivers as were used when the OS was installed on the old mobo, and then tried a newer version downloaded from PlanetAMD. I checked MSI and VIA websites but could not find any for WXP x64.
Any suggestion is appreciated.

Note that following overlaps my latest post to my other thread.
The following is what I did since:
I run WD's diagnostic utility(Vendor of  SATA HDDs is Western Digital) but it returned "NO ERROR".
I installed Windows XP x86 on the SATA-1, partition #2 with no problem. Then the drive H: was all of a sudden, found to be healthy and all the data in it became visible!! There is no check disk occurred while booting the OS. I tried booting all other OSes and two of them did not cause CHKDSK, and other three did cause CHKDSK. I let them run CHKDSK but no error was reported.  You may wonder what happened with D:, E:, F: and G:. Well, unfortunately I had already reformatted those partitions before I installed the Windows XP x86. Note that D:, E and G: were totally inaccessible while F: and H: were still accessible but most data were invisible. Thus, I can infer that data in F: could have reappeared if it was not reformatted.
What conclusion can be drawn from my ordeal?  It appears that the SATA driver from VIA does not support Windows XP x64 to be installed on MS-9617. Which of the driver or the mobo is to be blamed?  Since MS-9617 which is newer than MS-9130 which has no such problem, my MS-9617 is most probably defective. Any comment on the above is appreciated.
Why the data disappeared and then reappeared? I am unable to figure it out. One may say that CHKDSK when once run just fixed it.  But it repeatedly happend and repeatedly reported a lot of errors, seemingly be never ending, so that I reset to end it. Since then I cancelled CHKDSK every time when booting OS except after I noticed that the data reappeared.
I would appreciate it if anyone provide possible explanation as to how it could have happend.

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