Russell,

I have set the MOBO's BIOS to boot from the Seagate. It detects it while
posting and it is listed in the BIOS correctly as well. I have the boot
order set as floppy, cd-rom and hard disk.

The SATA is enabled, I skipped the other parts as this drive is an IDE
device. The IDE ports are also enabled. I checked the cabling to be sure
it was also correctly attached, and it is. I used the cable that came with
the MOBO, it is red instead of the old blue. I set the HD to cable select
(I did have it set to Master). No matter which way I set the HD jumper, it
freezes at Verifying DMI Pool. Should I reset the CMOS?

Sally


"Russell" rsullivan@tastycomputersdotcom_replacedotwith "." wrote in
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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