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

Admiral Huddy · 10 May 2011 at 09:29

Do you have any external USB HDDs plugged in?

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 09:40

Thanks for the reply and yes just the one

Admiral Huddy · 10 May 2011 at 09:41

Try disconnecting and then cold boot.

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 09:43

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

Admiral Huddy · 10 May 2011 at 09:46

Switch it off rather than restart, wait then power back on.

Make sure there are no CDs in the optical drive.

If that doesn't work, try clearing the CMOS and retest again.

CrimsonAvenger · 10 May 2011 at 09:48

yeah I'd go with clearing the CMOS too. That usually does the trick

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 10:08

How do I clear the CMOS? Thanks

honosuseri · 10 May 2011 at 10:15

Power off the rig. Remove the power cable. Pop out the round flat battery on the mobo for a minute or two, you can do it with jumpers but that is the easiest method.

Replace the battery and power cable and turn on the rig. You bios will goto default so you may need to press delete or whatever to adjust the settings back (boot order, date etc etc)

Admiral Huddy · 10 May 2011 at 10:19

Did unplugging the ext device not work?

You can clear the CMOS a number of ways, you can either remove the battery from the motherboard and replace after a few seconds or use the Clear CMOS jumper on the motherboard. This normally involves bridge two of three pins.. sort of on and off.. Check you motherboard for details.

If you are not familiar with a motherboard layout, then this may help:

http://www.huddysworld.co.uk/index....board&catid=40:techie-talk-hardware&Itemid=72

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?

honosuseri · 10 May 2011 at 10:23

No clearing the cmos is related to the bios. If files have been corrupted on the HDD you will need to find out which ones and over write them or reinstall windows to do it for u.

Start with resetting the bios, we can go from there fella

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

Admiral Huddy · 10 May 2011 at 10:49

Let us know how you get on

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 10:59

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

Thanks

olivier renault · 10 May 2011 at 12:16

Matallica said:
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?

System restore can definitely muck up the startup sequence.

Clearing the CMOS won't help in that regard. You can pop in the win 7 DVD, and do a repair.

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

Not really. It will most likely reset your BIOS hard drive boot priority, so you should check that the first boot drive is the right drive. Although it shouldn't matter if you have no OS / boot files on your secondary hard drive. You can always unplug the secondary drive and try a boot just in case. I had a case where win 7 isntalled on the SSD but kept the boot record on another drive. Had to unplug the drive, and repair the MBR which then installed on the SSD.

1) unplug secondary hard drive.
2) reset bios to defauilt.
3) boot.
4) same problem or boot errors, boot from Win 7 DVD and do a startup repair. Most likely would be a MBR (Master Boot Record) error of some sort.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/win7-windows-7-mbr,10036.html

Matallica · 10 May 2011 at 12:28

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

olivier renault · 10 May 2011 at 12:32

Skipped Vista, but should have online guides on the net for startup problems. Shuold be quite similar to win 7.

honosuseri · 10 May 2011 at 16:30

There are a number of reasons you can get this error.

Most times I've encountered it, I fixed by resetting and possibly in a couple of cases I updated the BIOS. By doing this you have to manually reset the boot priority etc.

It could be the MBR (master boot record) is corrupt and yes windows repair will try to fix this for you. In some rare cases I have found that it is the actual HDD that is faulty, I have a program called spinrite that repairs the sectors. It's like memtest but for HDDs in a roundabout way.

Joey1988 · 10 May 2011 at 16:40

I had this problem on a previous rig & I seem to remember I fixed it by doing 1 of 2 things:

1) Buying a new HDD and clean install of windows

2) Formatting current HDD and clean install of windows

I can't remember which...I think it was solution #1