- Oct 17, 2008
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Hi everyone, I'm new here and google searches leading to this forum in the past have always helped me out, so I figured I'd turn here first about some problems I'm having.
The motherboard to my last desktop died last week, and I spent the money to upgrade almost every component, down to the case. The only components of the old system that are internal are the hard drives (IDE). When I first booted it in it's new environment, and every attempt since, it freezes at 'verifying DMI Pool'. This isn't the problem that's really getting to me at the moment though, as I've researched the fix for this. The problem is that when I try to boot from cd, everything that loads slows to a GRINDING HALT.
I have 4 boot cds. Two of these are multiboot utility cds, and the other two are copies of windows (an upgrade disc for XP SP1, and a Vista Ultimate x64 disc). When I try to boot from these cds, everything turns ridiculously slow. One example: yesterday I ran chkdsk from the XP recovery console (which took about 20 minutes to boot into the disc, then another 10 at least to boot into the recovery console). Chkdsk itself ran in about 10-15 minutes, and reported errors with the partition, so I ran it with the /R flag. This proved to be a mistake, as the scan was still going 10 hours later when I woke up at the morning, and had only jumped 18% from where it was when I fell asleep. Vista's recovery environment refuses to even load; I see 'loading windows files' and then the windows loading bar, and if I'm lucky enough to see past that I see a black screen that just hangs there. I can't get anything to work from the boot cds thusfar, so the faster I can boot into them the faster I can try to solve the other problems.
Specs:
-Core 2 Quad Q9950
-2GB DDR2 RAM (OCZ was the brand if I recall correctly)
-eVGA geforce 9800GT AKIMBO (1GBDDR3)
-eVGA nforce SLI 750i FTW
-Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750w supply
-Sony Optiarc 22x SATA DVD-RW DL drive
-2 Hitachi Deskstar 160GB internal drives, IDE
If any other diagnostics or answers to things I've already tested are needed, please let me know.
The motherboard to my last desktop died last week, and I spent the money to upgrade almost every component, down to the case. The only components of the old system that are internal are the hard drives (IDE). When I first booted it in it's new environment, and every attempt since, it freezes at 'verifying DMI Pool'. This isn't the problem that's really getting to me at the moment though, as I've researched the fix for this. The problem is that when I try to boot from cd, everything that loads slows to a GRINDING HALT.
I have 4 boot cds. Two of these are multiboot utility cds, and the other two are copies of windows (an upgrade disc for XP SP1, and a Vista Ultimate x64 disc). When I try to boot from these cds, everything turns ridiculously slow. One example: yesterday I ran chkdsk from the XP recovery console (which took about 20 minutes to boot into the disc, then another 10 at least to boot into the recovery console). Chkdsk itself ran in about 10-15 minutes, and reported errors with the partition, so I ran it with the /R flag. This proved to be a mistake, as the scan was still going 10 hours later when I woke up at the morning, and had only jumped 18% from where it was when I fell asleep. Vista's recovery environment refuses to even load; I see 'loading windows files' and then the windows loading bar, and if I'm lucky enough to see past that I see a black screen that just hangs there. I can't get anything to work from the boot cds thusfar, so the faster I can boot into them the faster I can try to solve the other problems.
Specs:
-Core 2 Quad Q9950
-2GB DDR2 RAM (OCZ was the brand if I recall correctly)
-eVGA geforce 9800GT AKIMBO (1GBDDR3)
-eVGA nforce SLI 750i FTW
-Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750w supply
-Sony Optiarc 22x SATA DVD-RW DL drive
-2 Hitachi Deskstar 160GB internal drives, IDE
If any other diagnostics or answers to things I've already tested are needed, please let me know.
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