Help Desperatly Needed on Gigabyte Motherboard

K3rupt

K3rupt

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Well Basically, just bought a Brand New K8n Pro SLI gigabyte motherboard, with a AMD 3800+ 64Bit chipset, put in a Samsung 200gb hdd, Reformated using Windows xp SP2 and everytime i try to start my computer i get a message saying "verifying DMI pool data. . . . ."

Then basically, Just idles at that point for around 4 hours or so, then it will mysteriously start the windows interface. All drivers updated while computer is on.

  • Specs:
  • GigaByte K8n Nforce 4 Pro-Sli
  • Amd 3800+ 64bit
  • Winfast Px 6200 256mb Pci-E
  • Unknown Brand Ram 2 x 512 sticks
  • Few fans, blah blah Blah
  • Pioneer 109 Dvd Burner Dual Layer.

NOTE:
  • I have removed battery from motherboard for 20 mins, Replaced, Same error
  • Reformatted at least 3 times
  • hdd NOT corrupt as windows will start. Eventually.
  • All Help Greatly Appreciated.

Thanks, Mitch
 
Is it a SATA HDD? If so, try putting it into a different SATA port. Your problem is very strange, I have never come accross anything like this before.

Why don't you try a different operating system on the drive? Linux, for example...
 
SYMPTOMS
When the computer is running the power-on self test (POST), it may stop responding (hang), and a "Verifying DMI pool data" error message may be displayed.
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CAUSE
This issue is caused by the hardware.

Try one of these:
1. If you changed the hardware just before this problem occurred (e.g., installed a new hard disk drive), unchange it.

2. If you installed a new hard disk drive, set the motherboard CMOS Setup to Auto for the drive type. You may have to disconnect the drive first.

3. Enable "Reset Configuration Data" (may be "Force Update ESCD" in some CMOS Setuups) in the motherboard CMOS Setup PNP/PCI configuration. (Rebooting will automatically disabled it after it has done its thing.)

4. The CMOS may be corrupted. Clear it.

5. Disconnect all drives not required to boot the computer. If this fixes it, reconnect one at time.

6. The floppy drive may be bad or not connected properly.

7. Reseat all expansion boards.

8. Pull all boards not required to boot the computer.
 
I took the HDD out of my other computer, the HDD is no more than 8 months old, worked PERFECT on old computer, all the parts beside the hdd are brand New.

There is no option Enable "Reset Configuration Data" or "Force Update ESCD in the PNP/PCI thing, I have tried clearing the CMOS many times, Also D/c all drives i dont need., No Floppy Drive installed, tried Taking Graphics Card out n re-inserting it, nothing. Still Error.
 
Try using different RAM, or put them in different slots. If you use two RAM modules, use one. If the problem persists, switch them round.

Why don't you try a different HDD in this computer?

And, as I have already said, why don't you download a Linux distro and see if the same problem occurs.
 
PNP is Plug and Play, it must be in there somewhere :)

If you can boot to windows you can flash the BIOS from there using Gigabytes @BIOS utility.
 
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