i have a duron box:
800 MHz
MSI K7TM (via166a)
256 meg crucial ram
maxtor 30 gig HD
plextor burner
kensington nic
hercules prophet 4000x (agp kyro I based card)
anyways, the problem started when i got home this summer and the family computer was getting ultra funky (virii from uninformed users...). I had redhat on a seperate partition and decided to blast the hd and reinstall windows to use the whole space (no one used linux other than me).
I knew that windows wouldn't be able to get rid of the linux partitions (i tried it earlier) so i tried loading up fdisk from my slack cd. I gave me a kernel panic (before fully booting up), then i got a crc error the next time i tried. I dug around and found my maxtor hd utility. I booted it up, it said loading drdos, and then it gave me a garbled image of the splash screen, and it just sat there.
so i took out the disk and rebooted, and now it gets stuck on "building DMI pool" (note, this is NOT verifying dmi pool), and it sits there, i didn't know if it was just slow, so one time i let it go for an hour, and now i know for sure its really not building anything.
I've taken out the ram, i was planning on taking out all the other peripherals, but it doesn't seem likely it will be able to help anything. I did some searches but i couldn't find a solution that worked.
I did clear the cmos and adjust some bios settings, no go though. I can't boot up to any media, for the dmi pool shows up just before any boot device is able to be accessed.
i don't think its a purely hardware problem (if it is, its the mobo i guess), b/c i've heard of other people fixing it, and it came up after i changed some settings.
800 MHz
MSI K7TM (via166a)
256 meg crucial ram
maxtor 30 gig HD
plextor burner
kensington nic
hercules prophet 4000x (agp kyro I based card)
anyways, the problem started when i got home this summer and the family computer was getting ultra funky (virii from uninformed users...). I had redhat on a seperate partition and decided to blast the hd and reinstall windows to use the whole space (no one used linux other than me).
I knew that windows wouldn't be able to get rid of the linux partitions (i tried it earlier) so i tried loading up fdisk from my slack cd. I gave me a kernel panic (before fully booting up), then i got a crc error the next time i tried. I dug around and found my maxtor hd utility. I booted it up, it said loading drdos, and then it gave me a garbled image of the splash screen, and it just sat there.
so i took out the disk and rebooted, and now it gets stuck on "building DMI pool" (note, this is NOT verifying dmi pool), and it sits there, i didn't know if it was just slow, so one time i let it go for an hour, and now i know for sure its really not building anything.
I've taken out the ram, i was planning on taking out all the other peripherals, but it doesn't seem likely it will be able to help anything. I did some searches but i couldn't find a solution that worked.
I did clear the cmos and adjust some bios settings, no go though. I can't boot up to any media, for the dmi pool shows up just before any boot device is able to be accessed.
i don't think its a purely hardware problem (if it is, its the mobo i guess), b/c i've heard of other people fixing it, and it came up after i changed some settings.
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