Had a strange occurrence last night where i loaded winamp and suddenly ping.exe kept trying to access the net (constant zonealarm popups until i set it to remember the setting) and then after I had no sound coming from my computer. So rebooted and then found that the computer will now no longer get past "Verifying DMI Pool Data" in the boot up screen.
Tried a load of stuff to get it working again, from clearing the cmos (when i did this i thought i fixed it as it did something different, only to hang again at "verifying DMI Pool Data....Update Success"), to unplugging over drives and disabling everything but HDD in the bios boot options. Even tried using /fixmbr and /fixboot from the recovery console (all drives are showing up find from there btw), but all to no avail.
Any suggestion on what to do next? The only thing I can think of is a format, but hopefully someone can recommend another option first.
Tried a load of stuff to get it working again, from clearing the cmos (when i did this i thought i fixed it as it did something different, only to hang again at "verifying DMI Pool Data....Update Success"), to unplugging over drives and disabling everything but HDD in the bios boot options. Even tried using /fixmbr and /fixboot from the recovery console (all drives are showing up find from there btw), but all to no avail.
Any suggestion on what to do next? The only thing I can think of is a format, but hopefully someone can recommend another option first.