Sally,

If you're getting the freeze-up while clean installation or repair
installation is verifying the DMI pool data, this likely points to either
the settings/jumpers for the hard drive are not correct, the boot devices
aren't set correctly in BIOS, or there's a problem with cabling the hard
drive. As I said before, you must set your motherboard's BIOS to be able to
boot from the drive. To verify this, enter your motherboard's BIOS by
pressing the DEL key during the initial POST routine. When you're in,
select "Advanced BIOS Features" and set your hard disk boot priority, then
set your 1st, 2nd and 3rd boot devices to include Floppy, CDROM and Hard
Disk.

Then go into the "Integrated Peripherals" submenu and make sure that any
IDE/SATA ports are enabled, and IF your hard drive is an SATA drive, set the
on-chip SATA to Manual, then set SATA0 as SATA Port 0 and SATA1 as SATA Port
1. Then set SATA RAID function to enabled, and Save and Exit your BIOS. No
need to fiddle with SATA settings if you don't have an SATA drive installed.
Also, if your boot hard drive is IDE, make sure that the master/slave jumper
is set properly relating to where it is connected on the IDE cable.

Russell
http://tastycomputers.com