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Pedro_The_Swift
28th December 2007, 03:43 PM
why would a PC not post past

"verifying DMI pool data"


?
lro11
28th December 2007, 04:17 PM
any beeps? have you changed any hardware?
Pedro_The_Swift
28th December 2007, 05:25 PM
yea,, a hard drive.

cmos is set to auto detect,,,

have tried it with no drives attached,,

oh, and no beeps.
lro11
28th December 2007, 05:55 PM
check the jumper pins on the hard drive make sure it is set to master
dmdigital
28th December 2007, 06:12 PM
check the jumper pins on the hard drive make sure it is set to master

...or slave if it is the second drive!

Also check the BIOS Is set to boot from the correct drive if you have more than one.
abaddonxi
28th December 2007, 06:54 PM
Had one the other day where the HDD was set to Master with Slave present.

It wasn't happy without the slave.

Cheers
Simon
Pedro_The_Swift
28th December 2007, 08:40 PM
its a samsung drive,,

the only info I can find on samsung jumpers says
one joining the bottom two left pins(horizontal)
and one on the last two on the right(vertical)

the drive is on the end of the ide cable,

???????
Pedro_The_Swift
30th December 2007, 08:24 AM
what a mystery,,

have played around with MBR's and other stuff on Hirens Boot Cd,, deleted and reformated in fat32 using SuperFdisk, deleted and reformated into NTFS using partition manager, and it loaded windows files and kept on going---

will now try to add my other drive to copy some files over,,

gawd I hate XP "straight out of the box"

I am quite enjoying Vista though---:D