I've been having this problem since I moved in a few days ago. Hoping someone here can help.
My Rig:
Core i7 processor, 2.66 ghz
EVGA x58 motherboard
nVidia GTX 260 video card
1TB Western Digital hard drive
250GB Western Digital hard drive
750W Corsair power supply
6GB DDR2 RAM
Windows 7
My Problem:
The problem initially started with my stock heatsink breaking its motherboart anchors and tilting off the processor, causing the computer to shut down and become unresponsive. At the time I didn't realize what the problem was and turned the computer on and off a few times using the power supply switch in the back, as the power button on the front wasn't working.
After fixing the heatsink temporarily (by running the computer on its side) I then ran into the problem of hanging at "verifying DMI pool data" on startup. I did some research and tried the following (after making sure there was no disc in the drive), to no effect:
* Reset CMOS
* Checked all plugs and connections
* Confirmed correct settings in BIOS (250GB drive is the boot - set as primary boot device and plugged into SATA0. 1TB drive plugged into SATA2)
* Reordered cables both on the motherboard and back of the hard drive (after removing the TB drive to make things easier).
When none of these remedied the problem I figured I had cooked the drive, and hooked it up to another computer to confirm. Same as on my own rig, the hard drive would not boot when it was set as the boot drive, and produced the same "verifying DMI pool data" error.
After this I took the hard drive to the campus help desk, to see if there was any way to salvage the data off of it. The gent at the desk successfully mounted the drive, and verified that all the information was still present on it. He recommended I buy an enclosure for it to at least use it as an external drive, which works great. Everything's on the hard drive.
This would be all well and good if I didn't have a ton of data on the TB drive I'd rather not wipe by converting it to a boot drive and reinstalling Win7 over the top of it, so I'd really like to get the 250GB drive working again if possible. It doesn't make any sense that it would hang at DMI, but still work fine as an external drive.
I'm totally stumped, here's to hoping that someone here can help me out with this puzzle.
- Stefan
Edit: forgot to mention, while using the 250GB as an external drive I had the opportunity to run Error Checker on it and defrag it, which I did. Both completed, and threw odd error messages. The drive appears to be totally functional, except for hanging on DMI pool data. It leads me to believe I plugged something in wrong, or have something set incorrectly in the BIOS, but I can't figure out what.
My Rig:
Core i7 processor, 2.66 ghz
EVGA x58 motherboard
nVidia GTX 260 video card
1TB Western Digital hard drive
250GB Western Digital hard drive
750W Corsair power supply
6GB DDR2 RAM
Windows 7
My Problem:
The problem initially started with my stock heatsink breaking its motherboart anchors and tilting off the processor, causing the computer to shut down and become unresponsive. At the time I didn't realize what the problem was and turned the computer on and off a few times using the power supply switch in the back, as the power button on the front wasn't working.
After fixing the heatsink temporarily (by running the computer on its side) I then ran into the problem of hanging at "verifying DMI pool data" on startup. I did some research and tried the following (after making sure there was no disc in the drive), to no effect:
* Reset CMOS
* Checked all plugs and connections
* Confirmed correct settings in BIOS (250GB drive is the boot - set as primary boot device and plugged into SATA0. 1TB drive plugged into SATA2)
* Reordered cables both on the motherboard and back of the hard drive (after removing the TB drive to make things easier).
When none of these remedied the problem I figured I had cooked the drive, and hooked it up to another computer to confirm. Same as on my own rig, the hard drive would not boot when it was set as the boot drive, and produced the same "verifying DMI pool data" error.
After this I took the hard drive to the campus help desk, to see if there was any way to salvage the data off of it. The gent at the desk successfully mounted the drive, and verified that all the information was still present on it. He recommended I buy an enclosure for it to at least use it as an external drive, which works great. Everything's on the hard drive.
This would be all well and good if I didn't have a ton of data on the TB drive I'd rather not wipe by converting it to a boot drive and reinstalling Win7 over the top of it, so I'd really like to get the 250GB drive working again if possible. It doesn't make any sense that it would hang at DMI, but still work fine as an external drive.
I'm totally stumped, here's to hoping that someone here can help me out with this puzzle.
- Stefan
Edit: forgot to mention, while using the 250GB as an external drive I had the opportunity to run Error Checker on it and defrag it, which I did. Both completed, and threw odd error messages. The drive appears to be totally functional, except for hanging on DMI pool data. It leads me to believe I plugged something in wrong, or have something set incorrectly in the BIOS, but I can't figure out what.