When mine(W98 SE, Micron laptop) does that, I just hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and it
starts over. It usually never does it more than twice before it goes on and
boots correctly.
Bobby

-----Original Message-----
From: Bassem Fahmy <[log in to unmask]>
I have Intel MMX 266 and motherboard silicon .. (SiS 5571 rev 1 - i do
not have the manual) .. I replace the CPU with intel 166 just for test,
and when i replace and put my original 266 CPU the computer stopd in the
step of "verifying DMI pool Data .." when start to log in Win98

any suggestion please
Bassem - Egypt

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