PC not booting

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If your temp is 83C, you are way too hot. You may have already sustained
damage to your CPU. What may the temps have been when you weren't observing
them? Higher yet?

Cool down your CPU and then try booting again.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

<gregf@kcls.org> wrote in message
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> So I have winXP PC, only a year or so old, and now it won't boot all
> the way. Some think it's overheating, temp says 83, it's a AMD Athlon
> XP.
> The first screen comes up saying it found all 4 hard drives and lists
> them in order, then the next screen says Scan Devices
> Serial_CH0 Master : No Device
> Serial_CH1 Master : No Device
>
> it then flashes to another screen very quickly where at the bottom it
> says Verifying DMI Pool Data.... and then it starts all over again.
> I can make arrangements to get the thing cooling off better if that's
> the issue, but my concern is, what do I do now to get it to boot at all?
>

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According to one web site, it seems that most AMD Athlon CPUs are OK up
to around 90 degrees.


Richard Urban [MVP] wrote:
> If your temp is 83C, you are way too hot. You may have already sustained
> damage to your CPU. What may the temps have been when you weren't observing
> them? Higher yet?
>
> Cool down your CPU and then try booting again.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> Quote from: George Ankner
> "If you knew as much as you thought you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
>
> <gregf@kcls.org> wrote in message
> news:1127153435.666930.60110@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > So I have winXP PC, only a year or so old, and now it won't boot all
> > the way. Some think it's overheating, temp says 83, it's a AMD Athlon
> > XP.
> > The first screen comes up saying it found all 4 hard drives and lists
> > them in order, then the next screen says Scan Devices
> > Serial_CH0 Master : No Device
> > Serial_CH1 Master : No Device
> >
> > it then flashes to another screen very quickly where at the bottom it
> > says Verifying DMI Pool Data.... and then it starts all over again.
> > I can make arrangements to get the thing cooling off better if that's
> > the issue, but my concern is, what do I do now to get it to boot at all?
> >

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You could try running the drive manufacturers diagnostic on it as a
double check, but it does sound like you may have cooked the drive.

gregf@kcls.org wrote:

> I did take out the main hard drive, which I suspect is the problem, it
> was too hot to even touch, that seems very wrong to me. I tried to
> reinstall XP and it says the drive is corrupt and cannot be fixed.
>

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FYI, here is another reason why system might hang at verifying DMI pool
- You are overclocking and/or you enabled Game Acceleration (GAT) or
Performance Mode (PAT) in the BIOS, and your memory is "Value RAM" that does
not have high enough quality or fast enough timings to handle it.
- Feel free to use MemTest to check your RAM and make sure that bad memory
is not contributing to the problem
- A heat problem could also be caused not only by failing fans but by a
failing power supply

<andrewportess@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Before spending any money on cooling (unless you can remove the case
> and blow air in with a desk fan) then try underclocking the CPU in the
> BIOS by reducing the FSB and lowering the CPU core voltage slightly.
> This will reduce the CPU temperature but at the expense of losing CPU
> performance. It should allow you to see if heat is the cause of the
> problem. I have previously seen a system which hung at the verifying
> DMI pool and the fault was tracked to the motherboard.
>
> Andy
>

I helped build a mean little pc(yup i held the screw driver 8) ).With hours of head scratchin' and looping dim pool swapped sticks of ram out viola. The kicker was the ram Came with the microatx bare bones kit . put "BAD" ram in other mobo.Both run with out a hitch.Long story short I would focus on the ram.
good luck