Stuck at : Veryfying dmi pool data

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 09:25

Hello there

I was doing a system restore on my machine last night. Everything was ok until it tried booting back up, it booted but only got so far with the last message on the screen : "Veryfying dmi pool data" and then nothing happend!

Would anyone know what is wrong and if there is a fix at all?

Thanks

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 09:40

Thanks for the reply and yes just the one

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 09:43

Ok thanks, sorry what do you mean by the term cold boot!?

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 10:08

How do I clear the CMOS? Thanks

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 10:20

Gotcha! Ill give that I try when I get in

I was reading elsewhere that it may have been possible that some boot files had been corrupted somehow during System Restore. Maybe that could be a possibility, if so would clearing CMOS fix that too?

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 10:29

Oh yea silly me, should have known that.

Thanks for all the help, I cant do any of the above until I get home later on

Cheers

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 10:59

I have a 2nd HD in the computer, will this matter when I clear CMOS ?

Thanks

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 12:28

Its Windows Vista but I have the CD so all should be the same?

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 18:06

Right I tried booting from CD by pressing any key when being instructed. The next screen just goes straight back to the "Verifying dmi pool data" even though I selected in BIOS to boot by cd

Any other ideas!

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 18:41

honosuseri said:
Disconnect the power from the HDD and try to boot from the DVD again. If we can get you booting a bootdisk we can try a memtest or do it the old fashioned way swapping the mem sticks out, trying one at a time. Memory can cause some odd issues

Right I tried it 1 more time and it booted from CD (no unnplugging HD) now it appears that my 2nd HD with no Windows is listed as my C drive and my main drive with Vista is my D drive. Maybe this has been the problem all along!

I need to find out how to swap these now!

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 19:56

Hard Disk Boot Priority is correct it seems in BIOS

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 20:59

Swapped them over and both still mixed up ! Time to unnplug the 2nd HD I think!

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 22:00

Currently have 1HD in with Vista and the CD drive isnt reading again!

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 22:29

Finally got Vista to show in the recovery list!

Startup Repair tells me a problem could not be detected though. I command prompt is an option, any clues there!?

Matallica · 11 May 2011 at 08:54

honosuseri said:
Try the mem test that is in the repair options (if u can get back into it). This really shouldnt be this problematic

I have no luck when it comes to things like this.

Ill try the mem test when I get in later, cheers

Matallica · 11 May 2011 at 18:05

Whilst booting from CD I have tried to do the mem test which it tells me it will do after a restart. The computer then restarts but goes straight to the screen with Verifying dmi pool data!!!

Very tempted to format and have done with it. After all I have managed to back up everything I can think of whilst in system recovery.

Matallica · 11 May 2011 at 21:37

Main thing ill lose is my itunes play counts!!!

Matallica · 12 May 2011 at 11:13

napalm666 said:
had a problem like this before

turned out it was ahci enabled instead of ide

Ill look into that, what did you do to fix it ?

Thanks

Matallica · 15 May 2011 at 11:32

Problem no longer exists after a format!

Cheers for all the suggestions everyone!