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| Thread ID: 40175 | 2003-11-30 10:52:00 | PC freezing at "Verifying DMI Poll Data | Chemical Ali (118) | Press F1 |
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| 195906 | 2003-11-30 10:52:00 | Hi My PC is hanging on boot up at "Verifying DMi Pool Data" and then displaying several lines of "99 99 99 .." before doing absolutely nothing. It's a dual boot (Windows 2000 Pro/Knoppix) PC with 1 hard drive/CD-Rom/Floppy drives. Just prior to this happening I was mucking around with trying to add icons to my quick launch bar so don't know if that's whats caused it?? |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 195907 | 2003-11-30 10:55:00 | If you put Verifying DMi Pool Data in Google it will give you plenty of information about this problem | Jim B (153) | ||
| 195908 | 2003-11-30 18:48:00 | check your bios and change if necessary the drive geometry to 'auto'........ | drcspy (146) | ||
| 195909 | 2003-12-01 04:18:00 | I had this problem with a WinME installation. In fact if I recall correctly, my WinME machine was also dual booting Linux at the same time. There can be many different reasons for this as google will show. I had a good website with all the trouble-shooting steps in it but I can't find it again - sorry :(. I tried all sorts of things, but what fixed mine was to replace the master boot record using fdisk /mbr. However as you are dual booting you will lose the Knoppix/2000 boot loader. See what other options you have first. Good luck. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 195910 | 2003-12-01 10:58:00 | You could try booting to your win2k cd and trying fix mbr instead. Hopefully that will only recognise the win2k bit and not screw you linux one....maybe. Cheers Murray P |
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