The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

I don't know if you guys can help me with this but...
My computer spends an unusually and annoyingly long time at the "verifying DMI pool data" screen at bootup. Not so with any of my other computers....Looked it up and can't find anything...It's not new, been like this since I first booted...

 

mrk44,

A couple of questions! Are your hard drives IDE or S-ata? Do you have any flash drives plugged in. If you have an IDE hard drive, what is it set too and if it's set to CS, is it on an 80 wire cable? If it is, setting the drives to Master and Slave or just master if you only have a single hard drive, might eliminate the problem. I've only had this problem with hard drives, not optical drives!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

My only hard drive is SATA, no IDE, and all I have plugged in is a logitech wireless mouse and keyboard receiver.

 

I had that with my board - solved it by unplugging a USB flash drive from my PC...

Sytyguy: All you seem to do is lurk around aD and pop out comments whenever someone gets banned / warned by a mod, you're no better than Sophocles. Next time I see you post, I want to see something useful.

ddp: will edit post ASAP.

 

i was looking at that board for the build i might do for my dad if he goes that route. he just wants me to get a new hdd and some mem for his system now. im trying to get a cheap new build for him.

the reason i was looking at the P43 board is because i was gonna use the E7200 on it.it being a wolfdale. i dont really want to put it on a P35 board.and the P45 is more costly than the P43. plus he dont need no P45 board. I DO.....lol and it only haven 4 sata plugins is fine. 1 for a hdd and 1 for a odd(one of the extra burners i have)

first day of school here. my oldest is in the 5th grade and my middle son is his very first day ever. kindergarten. he is so excited. plus my B-day. so i wont be around much today.

if i may quote someone.

"Cant we all just get along?"

piece,love,& axel greese.

 

mrk44,

Check out this link. It may help resolve your problem!
http://www.duxcw.com/faq/computer/dmi.html

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Well, I tried what I could try from that link, but still have the problem. It's interesting because sometimes it'll be gone in a couple seconds, but most of the time it'll stay on the screen for a more than 10 seconds. Not a huge amount of time, but enough to be noticed. Unlike my old pc, where it's gone in less than a second. Anyway, thanks for the help....I'll try and figure it out somehow.

 

You don't use a USB stick?

 

I use a wireless mouse and keyboard receiver. I took it out, but it made no difference....still stays on the screen for 10 seconds.

 

How many IDE, S-ATA and USB devices do you have?

 

No IDE, 2 SATA (one HDD, one ODD), 1 usb device plugged in.

 

Hmm.

 

creaky: I googled it a while ago already and never found a solution. And most of the problems that I saw other people have are that they can't get past that screen, where mine just takes a little longer to get past it.

 

Guys you probably didn't notice, but my sig has changed.

NO MORE COMPUTER! yayayayay!

 

What do you want, my congratulations?

 

Would be nice.

 

To be honest, I'm exhausted after the absolute trial of getting the 4870X2 to work. When I had the pair of 3870s, I could just take the second card out of my case to end the horror. Not possible with the 4870X2, I'm probably going to sell it, in short, it's crap.

 

Geeze, I didn't say anything, and I didn't know.....been gone all day.