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Verifying DMI Pool Data...

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enwar3

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Ok, so my hard drive went haywire a bit ago and I reinstalled windows, but now when I boot up there's a brief pause when the computer "verifies DMI pool data" - this gets me worried because it never used to do this. Is this something to worry about?

If it helps, I get a floppy error as well when I boot up.
 
well if you get a floppy error and the floppy drive is one of the bootable devices before C: drive (such as CD-ROM 1st, floppy 2nd, hard drive 3rd) then it'll pause there because it is trying to talk to the floppy drive which is having trouble.

Check the BIOS settings on that.
 
I think the system may have always had that message, but now due to the delay with the floppy errors, you're only just now seeing it. Normally systems these days just go right from the first post screen to the Windows loading screen, but in olden times there was also a summary screen showing all the hardware, and that's where the DMI pool data message appeared.

It may also have something to do with the CMOS setup battery, settings may be getting lost between reboots, which means it's redetecting hardware and assigning IRQs and such.
 
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