Hi Richard;

    I have had this problem three times over the years. Once it was the 
capacitors failing on the motherboard, which I attempted to fix but finally 
was forced to admit defeat. Once a re-install of the operating system and 
software (something I like to do about once a year anyway) solved the 
problem. The final time it was only necessary to enter the CMOS setup, reset 
to default settings, save the default settings and then re-enter my own 
settings. Why this final problem required these actions I don't know.

    Good luck.

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Radu" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 2:45 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] stopping at verifying DMI pool data


I am having a boot problem and have been unable to fix. I am running XP Pro 
on a 1.7Ghz P4 with a 160GB Mator and a 60GB slave. Everthing was working 
fine on shutdown but the upon next start-up, I recived the following message 
and Windows would not load:
Verifying DMI pool data... update successful

I have run the following from XP recovery consol with no progress:
chkdisk and chkdsk /r
fixboot
fixmbr

I have inplugged the ethernet, USB, and fax modem cards and rebooted to no 
avail.

I have a Linux boot CD-ROM (Knoppix) and I can see the both hards drives and 
the files on them (they all look fine) but the boot disk is a read-only so I 
cannot move or modify any files.

I have no idea what my next steps should be. Any ideas?
TIA,
Richard

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