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Weird DMI Pool Boot Up Problem..

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druxboyzz

Senior member
well... here it is.
i have an Abit BP6 with 1 Celeron 366.

i boot it up, and it says "Verifying DMI Pool Data..." along with my 3.5 Floppy drive continuously making reading noises. and it just stays there forever and the DMI pool never gets verified.

i tried unhooking the floppy, the noise stops.. but yet, the DMI pool still never gets verified to load windows. what do i do? i cant even boot it up with a boot disk in order to format or anything.

thanks a lot, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
 
ive had this problem before...
first take verything out except video and floppy drive with a startup disk...even hard drive
use only one stick of ram
you will need to clear cmos(on motherboard)...then load default settings again..then one by one...put your cards back in and see which one is causing the problem...hope that helps
 
thanks sadboi.. i did that and found out it is the hard drive itself causing the problem... now how do i go about fixing this problem without having to format the whole thing? is it a physical problem? new hard drive time or wha? thanks.
 
Go into your bios,
Set your internal and external cache to disabled,
Set force update
Save and exit.

Your reboot will take a lot longer due to your changes but it should get past the verifying DMI...
Once it gets past that, restart your system and go back into your bios.
enable your internal and external cache
save and exit

It should get past that problem
 
The same thing happened after I installed Ghost and making a backup copy. Even though I have it set in the bios to boot to floppy it wants to boot to my cdrom drive, I tried clearing the cmos and that didnt work. I put a different hard drive in with windows installed and booted right into windows.

I am curious, what would have caused this problem in the first place and what does disabling and re-enabling cache do?

I just bought a 20 gig 5400 rpm hard drive for $40 and the ATA100 maxtor pci card which will be free after rebate. I was going to return it tomorrow but by replacing it will put me above my spending.
 
One more thing
Before this happened I installed Drive Image and that's when I could only boot to verifying DMA. It would not boot to windows but it would read a disk. If you manage to get it to only read the a floppy disk try

put a windows boot disk in
at the a prompt type fisk/mbr
reboot

 
well after that computer of mine got messed up from that, i needed to type my homework on this computer, the 900mhz p3. anyway, so i installed Office 2000 with microsoft word, and i reset to finalize installation, and WHAM!!! it messed up this here computer too! ... so i had to format this harddrive, and here i am now.

PS: i slashed and burned that devil cd.
 
this may be a dumb question... but what/where is the "internal" and "external" cache at in the bios? i dont see anything being that specific as being internal and external... i see L1, L2 , vid and stuff..

abit bp6 bios..

thanks
 
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