Cross-posting fromt he computer support forum...My computer hangs at "Verifying DMI Pool Data"...

[ghostsofgiants]

My computer hangs at "Verifying DMI Pool Data" while booting. Any suggestions?

When I unhook all my drives (except my boot drive) and cards (except the video card), it will boot into windows no trouble. I can shut it off, plug in my secondary hard drive, which has my CD-ROM as a slave, and it still has no trouble booting. I shut it down, plug in my DVD writer, which is a secondary master, and it hangs at "Verifying DMI Pool Data" again. This time if I unplug the DVD writer and restart, it still hangs, so I have to go through the process of unhooking everything and hooking it up one by one again to get the computer to progress beyond "Verifying DMI Pool Data". I had been doing that with my sound card and my firewire card unhooked. It appears to do the same when I have those plugged beck in.

System specs, just in case they're needed:
Windows XP Pro
Pentium 4 3.0GHz processor
512MB PC3200 RAM
1x CD-ROM Drive
1x DVD writer
1x SATA hard drive (boot drive)
1x IDE hard drive
1x floppy drive
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro video card
M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card

I think that's it. If anyone can help me out so that I don't have to bring it in for someone to look at it, I'd be very grateful.

[Omphaloskepsis]

1. From Google..

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000474.htm

You might want to try at a place like:
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums
That place is a total nerdrection..



Good Luck.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Gracias.

I tried googling, but there seemed to be a lot of shit to wade through, and was pissed off and frustrated, haha. I'll give that stuff a try.

[Omphaloskepsis]

3. Nudges this thread with my ass to the top of this heap...

I need a smoke.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. I need sleep.

Or to quit being lazy and actually try what's suggested on that site.

[Omphaloskepsis]

5. I think sleep is key...

I doubt the computer will vanish during your nap. Enjoy.