A7N8X-X hangs at DMI pool verification

[Draggonfodder]

I goofed. I bought a new HD (segate 120 gig) and booted from my XP pro disk
for install. I then decided not to format from the XP pro disk as I have
had problems in the past getting the full size of the HD. So I aborted, put
in my Segate Utilities CD and rebooted. It hangs at "Verifying DMI Pool
Data". I have tried everything (rebooting, resetting BIOS, etc.) Any
suggestions??? Yes, I tried putting the xp pro cd back in...

John

 

[Draggonfodder]

Some reference material:

http://www.duxcw.com/faq/computer/dmi.html

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000474.htm

http://home.earthlink.net/~leetutor/FixWin/UpDown/hangat.htm

Good luck.

Thanks, after great knashing of teeth and serious prayer... I disconnected
my zip100 drive and all is well. Don't know why it did what it did, but all
works...

John

 

[Draggonfodder]

That's interesting. What kind of ZIP drive - ATAPI-IDE?
Perhaps it was its track ID information or its electronics
card was sending a false code back to the bios.

ATAPI-IDE connected as the secondary drive on my primary. I believe when I
aborted the xp pro install, MS was mad at me ;-)..

John