Error message when @ DMI pool

[LittleNemoNES]

Guys out of the blue my mobo now throws out a bunch of errors @ verifying DMI pool time. This happens even when trying to boot from a DVD Drive.
It looks like this:

>00000080
<00000002
000000C1
000000048
*<00064028
J

I cleared the CMOS, pulled out the battery, etc -- no luck.
Mobo says "FF"

Any ideas?
BTW bought from mobopro

 

[Sylvanas]

Run memtest86+ for a few hours and see if you get any errors. Could be lack of voltage, failing component or Bad CMOS checksum (perhaps a bad flash?).

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Originally posted by: Sylvanas
Run memtest86+ for a few hours and see if you get any errors. Could be lack of voltage, failing component or Bad CMOS checksum (perhaps a bad flash?).

Thanks for the advice. I'll run memtest to make sure my ram is ok.
I didn't do anything to my PC. Just shutdown and next thing I know it doesn't work.
I also chose defaults and no go.

 

[akhilles]

FF code means ok. What you see is from your device. It's not the mobo.

BTW, the default bios settings don't work. Go figure. You can press ESC at post for a boot menu, & choose your boot device.

If that doesn't work, save your o/c to a profile, load defaults, don't o/c as a test, load up a few CD/DVD disks.

If that still doesn't work, enable RAID in integrated devices in bios. That's my settings. Work like a champ. Oh, and I don't have a RAID setup. All SATA DVD & HDD standalones.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Plugging/unplugging 1 HDD at a time: the culprit was my storage drive.
If this is plugged in it gives the error otherwise it will boot just fine (wish I figured this out before I had wiped out my perfectly healthy raid array )

If I hot plug the drive in windows, I can access it...
going to run Seagate diagnostic tools...

BTW, can I alter the MBR without wiping out the partition? (1 only)
t'anks.

 

[akhilles]

Yup, there are MBR tools all over the Web. If you want to fix Windows not booting up, use Windows CD, recovery console, do:

FIXBOOT
FIXMBR