Rebooting at "Verifying DMI Pool Data" on new T-Bird system

[Hackman]

Hi all,

I'm putting together a new box and am having problems. The system is a retail T-Bird 1K with an Abit KT7-Raid and a 128MB Kingston memory stick. When the system boots and gets to "Verifying DMI Pool Data", it reboots. This will continue to occur until I turn the machine off.

After swapping the M/B for a new one, the same thing occurred. On a hunch, I turned off L1 and L2 cache and the thing boots fine.

Does this sound like a bad processor to you guys? I've got an RMA from AMD and thought I'd double-check here before sending it off.

Thanks for any help!

 

[jblondi]

I had a similar problem with an abit board myself. This is what I did and it seemed to fix the problem. In the settings where you can sent the irq's there should be a setting for "force update escd" something along those lines. I set that the enable, reboot, and it made it past that. Im not really sure what it does, I have a feeling it checks to see if system changes have been made. Try that out, hope it helps.

 

[Hackman]

Thanks for the speedy reply!

Nope, that didn't make a difference. Well, it did on the first boot, but after that... same problem.

More info, as I was sitting looking at some of the other options on the bios screen, it rebooted!<Arrgggh>

 

[SirFshAlot]

I had a similar deal happen when I tried a new MSI Pro w/Duron 800.

I had no way to isolate either the board or chip to figure out if either were defective so i ended up RMAing both and starting fresh when the Pro2-A came out.

I thought maybe I was retarded, but I had nothing of the sort happen with the new stuff.

I am guessing it was a bad chip, though.

 

[RoadRuner]

swap the sdram out, and load bios default setups , set the memory at 100mghz to see if its bad memory.

of course, remove all cards cept video, unplug hard drive, floppy, etc.


Try a pci video card too. Any component can cause the machine to wig out.

 

[Hackman]

Thanks, Roadrunner and SirFshAlot.

I have tried different memory and video cards. All components are removed from the system except for my pci video.

I've also reset the bios many times (to the fail-safe defaults) to no avail. The only thing that has made a difference so far was to disable the L1 and L2 cache. The system seems to run okay that way. However, if I wanted a Celeron (no cache), I would have bought one.

Any other thoughts?

ADDENDUM: The system just rebooted while just sitting at a DOS prompt and I had L1 and L2 disabled. Hmm...

 

[Mem]

Hackman,this sounds like a faulty CPU,btw my own 900T-Bird stopped at verifying DMI Pool data,anyway I tried everything took it back to the shop where I purchased the board &amp; processor &amp; it turned out my CPU went faulty after only six weeks of use,btw it also screwed up my harddrive by this stage so it was back to reformat harddrive job with a new 900T-bird.

 

[Hackman]

Thanks, Mem.

I sure thought it did but since this was my first foray into AMD territory, I thought I'd better run it by you guys. Thanks, all!

 

[lane42]

I had this similar problem on my KT7-raid board but my computer stopped at the verifying part. This might sound stupid but make sure your harddrive is setup right in bios,
set to auto. Dont know why it worked with L1-L2 off. Isnt
verifying DMI Pool Data last step before os, (windows) takes over.

 

[Hackman]

Yes, that's right. It is the last step. That's what makes it so frustrating. It's like it's taunting me.

Well, I just sent it off with the UPS guy (bye! bye!). Hopefully, AMD will find it has a problem and send me a new one.

Thanks, again, everyone!

 

[Kingofcomputer]

try update the mb bios.

my epox 8kta2 and crucial pc133 has such similar problem (hang at verifying dmi pool...) before if using auto detect spd or set manually to 133, if set manually to 100 would solve the problem, later after updated bios, can run at 133 manually or auto detect spd. sandra memory result is boosted a lot.