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Guys thanks for the helpful discussion but if you are still interested in my solution then I switched from SATA to IDE to avoid problems. Thanks for help anyway.

Good idea. I will try that. Thanks. But it seems that it is a maybe a better idea to keep my old and very noisy IDE drive to keeps things stable anyway...

Thanks for the link to the drivers. However my drivers works correctly when system is booted from IDE drive and also I cannot complete Windows installation without few crashes when system is running from SATA so the problem is definitely not in the drivers. Yeah I know about issues with SATA II drives on KT600 but I was so happy when I found that BIOS has no problems to find my SATA II drive so I thought that everything will be ok... well it is not unfortunately. There are no jumpers on that HDD and Hitachi Feature Tool (utility from Hitachi to set drive parameters) cannot set SATA mode in firmware for my HDD version. I at least tried to change capacity of drive to 128GB with the hope to fix crashes but without success. One interesting thing. When I'm installing Windows on SATA drive there is one crash right after setting Time Zone and there is always some date which does not make sense like year 99 and wrong day of the month etc. This is not happening when I install system on IDE drive. So is it possible that there is some conflict with SATA controller and real time clock? Maybe some IRQ issues? I cannot understand why is this happening.

Thanks.

Thanks rloew. Can you point me to you patch please? Also do you have any clue why everything is working fine with RAID drivers when system was booted from IDE drive? So far I have no problems with ethernet. But I can disable integrated ethernet controller in bios and I have wifi and ethernet cards available so this should not be the problem. Thanks anyway.

Hi there, I tried to build my retro PC recently and unfortunately a I have serious problem with system stability with SATA disk and Windows 98. My setup: MB: MSI KT6 Delta (Via KT600) HDD: Hitachi Travelstar 160GB (SATA II) What works perfectly (system on IDE drive): 1) I can install and run system on IDE drive without SATA drive connected without any issues. 2) I can run system from IDE drive with SATA drive connected without any issues. 3) I can install Via RAID drivers when system is running from IDE drive. What does not work (system on SATA drive): 1) When I try to install system on SATA drive setup crashes after first searching for drivers and after setting time zone. But it is possible to finish installation it even with these errors. 2) I get windows protection error while booting from time to time. 3) I can't install Via RAID drivers. There is a yellow exclamation mark in device manager with the message that device cannot be started. I really want to use SATA drive in this PC and I'm desperate now. Any ideas what should i try? Unfortunately I don't have any other SATA drive for testing. Thanks guys...