Stuck! Verifying DMI Pool . . . HELP:cry

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by puzzlez, Jul 24, 2010.

  1. puzzlez

    puzzlez Private E-2

    Hi All,The computer I am working on is my daughters and was so plagued with viruses and mismatched software that I had to wipe it out and start fresh.
    The computer is an Acer, Apsire T180 with windows xp media center edition 2006 on it. It has 2-512 ram and a 250gig harddrive. So I pulled the harddrive and formatted it and put it back in and started the long install of her original os disks (7 of them) and it completely installed and I started the updates (82 of them wow) and after the restart it just wasn't working correctly with a few problems so I again pulled the harddrive and formatted it and put it back but this time I can't get the disks to run at all. I just get the black screen saying Verifying DMI Pool Data with a blinking curser and can't get anywhere at all from here. I can get into the bios and made sure it's set to start at the cd first- no joy then tried clearing the cmos and removing all plugs and extra expansion cards and pulling the cmos battery for over an hour and still I'm stuck. I went back into the bios and set all to defaults except for the correct day and time and tried again-no joy. I have been trying all the posts things from previous threads and still can't get past that darn screen it won't even let me run the ubcd. I don't know what else to try? Any and all ideas are greatly welcome. Thanks Puzzlez
     
  2. Break_Da

    Break_Da Sergeant


    Microsoft knowledge base information link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287553

    Another forum has answered similar, click here:

    From the look of some of the information, if you moved stuff around then the computer BIOS is unable to process something because of a change. Double check all the pins, HDD especially considering it is the only device removed, verifying primary and secondary device. If you removed or moved anything else, check the primary and secondary (master/slave) pins on those device(s) too. If this was a laptop I would say pull the RAM noticing the location and re-seat them but this is a desktop unit and is another area to consider. You took it apart and now it isn't together correctly and this should be your first consideration. The removing is what was done to the unit before the problem occured, not the virus/mismatch.
     
    Last edited: Jul 25, 2010
  3. Spookydoo

    Spookydoo Private E-2

    I recently had an expierience that I resolved and I worked with the hardware. Make sure you have not disturbed anything else and go through the hardware checking it. Mine ended up being a computer that I got and it had been messed with in the tower. The problems I encountered were improper wire connections, and the computer would not do anything when I tried to run it at first. Dust clumps were also on motherboard that were making resistor connections of there own. Use a can of air if board has a lot of dust you could have disturbed also. Pull the ram card and try to run it without ram to get the beep error noise, look in some of the general posts for trouble shotting also.
     
  4. foogoo

    foogoo Major "foogoo" Geek

    Did you put the drives back the way you found them?
    Some mobo's freeze like that when the drives are incorrectly jumpered.

    Unplug the drives and see if it posts and you can enter BIOS.
     

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