Updating DMI pool........??????????

[Banzai_Joe]

Hi all,

built a pc using:

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H
AMD 4450e
SATA Samsung Spinpoint SP2504c 250gb hdd
SATA Liteon DVDRW Lightscribe
2GB Corsair PC2 6400 ram

After formatting and installing Vista HP 32-bit, i loaded on the mobo drivers etc, did some windows updates and shut it down.
Took it home and booted it up and it just got stuck at the dos screen where it says "Updating DMI pool success........." or something like that.
Left it for ages but nothing happened. Except when i opened the dvd drive, thats when it booted up into windows.
Thinking it was a dodgy install, i totally reformatted and reinstalled windows. Same damn thing happens, every single time the pc boots up, either cold boot or a reset. The only way for it to progress is to open the dvd drive.
I've tried clearing the bios = no difference
I'm running bios version F3. There is only F4 that is more recent and it doesn't seem to pertain to my issue so i haven't bothered updating it.
I'm pretty sure the ram is ok, but i will have to test it to make sure
Can anybody offer any advice to this. I'm stumped as to why it only boots up when i press the eject button on the dvd drive.
Boot up order is:
dvd-rw
hdd
There is a more recent set of chipset drivers on the gigabyte site, which i tried downloading last night, but OMG there site has to be the slowest in the world. My 4mbit connection was downloading at 15KBps. It eventually bombed out.
There may also be a bios setting that i'm not aware of that may fix this.

But then, that's why i'm asking for help, cos i just don't know how to fix it!

Any help or advise would be very much appreciated, thanks

 

[Aod]

the DMI pool is to do with hardware changes. if you change enough hardware in one go then windows will refuse to boot without a reinstall...

Anyway, your boot order should ALWAYS be HDD --> CD-ROM
unless of course, you use floppies often, where you might want floppies at the front.

you see, it's entirely possible that your computer is waiting for the CD drive to start loading the CD thats in the drive when there isn't one there, and it's working when you open the tray because the drive reports that the tray is open...

 

[Banzai_Joe]

you see, it's entirely possible that your computer is waiting for the CD drive to start loading the CD thats in the drive when there isn't one there, and it's working when you open the tray because the drive reports that the tray is open...

Yup, thats exactly my theory, although i disagree that the hdd should ALWAYS be first in the boot sequence. How would you boot from an optical drive otherwise? I've ALWAYS had mine set for optical drive 1st for this very reason and have never had issues on all the builds i've done....until now.
But i suppose doing as you suggest should prove one way or another, and if i ever need to boot from an optical then i can just change the setting in the CMOS in that instance.

Thanks Aod, i'm pretty sure that you have confirmed what i thought. I will try it when i get home tonight.
Live and learn eh?

 

[Aod]

on almost all motherboards, pressing F8 during the post will bring up the boot menu which will allow you to boot from whatever you want for that boot cycle, and it will go back to default afterwards.

having the CD drive first makes no sense!

 

[helmutcheese]

I used to get that way back in 2002 when I had a NF2 with SATA HDD, the early Silicon Sata Bios had an issue and was later fixed, but some modder fixed it 1st.

I RMA's a Maxtor HDD due to it lol (brand new).