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Right-o.
Just finished (yesterday) my most recent build.
Specs:
3.2Ghz P4
ABIT IC7-G
2x 256MB RAM (1x 2700; 1x 3200)
1x 512MB RAM (2700)
Connect 3D ATi Radeon 9600XT
Creative Live! 5.1
Hitachi Deskstar 120GB HDD (IDE)
SAMSUNG CD-RW (IDE)
SONY CD-R / DVD (IDE)
Cooling: 2x Case Fan (1x Exhaust, 1x Intake); 1x CoolerMaster Aero4 Lite
And I boot up, having cleared the CMOS, and boot up via the Windows XP (SP1) CD.
Then, I formated the HDD, and re-installed Windows XP - a completely clean install.
Now, after the restart in the middle of the Windows XP install, the BIOS hangs at "Verifying DMI Pool Data..........". About 7 minutes later, the screen goes blank. A couple after that, a white "loading bar" appears, and takes aaaaggggeeeessss.
About 20 minutes later it gets into the second half of the install, and that all goes swimmingly.
It finishes and restarts again. Same problem.
Now, it's all fine once it loads into Windows, but man, 20 minutes? Surely something is wrong?
Is it the HDD?
Mind, BootVis etc wouldn't be any help, seeing as it happened from a clean install....
Just finished (yesterday) my most recent build.
Specs:
3.2Ghz P4
ABIT IC7-G
2x 256MB RAM (1x 2700; 1x 3200)
1x 512MB RAM (2700)
Connect 3D ATi Radeon 9600XT
Creative Live! 5.1
Hitachi Deskstar 120GB HDD (IDE)
SAMSUNG CD-RW (IDE)
SONY CD-R / DVD (IDE)
Cooling: 2x Case Fan (1x Exhaust, 1x Intake); 1x CoolerMaster Aero4 Lite
And I boot up, having cleared the CMOS, and boot up via the Windows XP (SP1) CD.
Then, I formated the HDD, and re-installed Windows XP - a completely clean install.
Now, after the restart in the middle of the Windows XP install, the BIOS hangs at "Verifying DMI Pool Data..........". About 7 minutes later, the screen goes blank. A couple after that, a white "loading bar" appears, and takes aaaaggggeeeessss.
About 20 minutes later it gets into the second half of the install, and that all goes swimmingly.
It finishes and restarts again. Same problem.
Now, it's all fine once it loads into Windows, but man, 20 minutes? Surely something is wrong?
Is it the HDD?
Mind, BootVis etc wouldn't be any help, seeing as it happened from a clean install....
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Come-on... Please?!?
Come-on... Please?!?
Right-o.
Just finished (yesterday) my most recent build.
Specs:
3.2Ghz P4
ABIT IC7-G
2x 256MB RAM (1x 2700; 1x 3200)
1x 512MB RAM (2700)
Connect 3D ATi Radeon 9600XT
Creative Live! 5.1
Hitachi Deskstar 120GB HDD (IDE)
SAMSUNG CD-RW (IDE)
SONY CD-R / DVD (IDE)
Cooling: 2x Case Fan (1x Exhaust, 1x Intake); 1x CoolerMaster Aero4 Lite
And I boot up, having cleared the CMOS, and boot up via the Windows XP (SP1) CD.
Then, I formated the HDD, and re-installed Windows XP - a completely clean install.
Now, after the restart in the middle of the Windows XP install, the BIOS hangs at "Verifying DMI Pool Data..........". About 7 minutes later, the screen goes blank. A couple after that, a white "loading bar" appears, and takes aaaaggggeeeessss.
About 20 minutes later it gets into the second half of the install, and that all goes swimmingly.
It finishes and restarts again. Same problem.
Now, it's all fine once it loads into Windows, but man, 20 minutes? Surely something is wrong?
Is it the HDD?
Mind, BootVis etc wouldn't be any help, seeing as it happened from a clean install....
Just finished (yesterday) my most recent build.
Specs:
3.2Ghz P4
ABIT IC7-G
2x 256MB RAM (1x 2700; 1x 3200)
1x 512MB RAM (2700)
Connect 3D ATi Radeon 9600XT
Creative Live! 5.1
Hitachi Deskstar 120GB HDD (IDE)
SAMSUNG CD-RW (IDE)
SONY CD-R / DVD (IDE)
Cooling: 2x Case Fan (1x Exhaust, 1x Intake); 1x CoolerMaster Aero4 Lite
And I boot up, having cleared the CMOS, and boot up via the Windows XP (SP1) CD.
Then, I formated the HDD, and re-installed Windows XP - a completely clean install.
Now, after the restart in the middle of the Windows XP install, the BIOS hangs at "Verifying DMI Pool Data..........". About 7 minutes later, the screen goes blank. A couple after that, a white "loading bar" appears, and takes aaaaggggeeeessss.
About 20 minutes later it gets into the second half of the install, and that all goes swimmingly.
It finishes and restarts again. Same problem.
Now, it's all fine once it loads into Windows, but man, 20 minutes? Surely something is wrong?
Is it the HDD?
Mind, BootVis etc wouldn't be any help, seeing as it happened from a clean install....
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