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Win 2K Pro will not boot

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by wevans

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well, this is a Win 2K Pro PC and it will hang at"Verifying DMI Pool Data" will not boot, will not get to the point to hit F8, will not boot with a 4 disc boot set to repair, will not load a new install. any help? I'll give 400 points if any goodanswer works!

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by cul8rm8e

i had yhe sam prob quite some time ago,i think from my recolection what i did was as the machine starts to boot hold down (delete) or (ctrl) depending on how old the machine is,go into bios and either set your boot sequence manually or by auto detect H/Drive, what i seem to rem is that when booting when this happened to me the machine was trying to boot from cd-rom, check indicator light on cd-rom to see if this is the same situation you have, if so the this will sort your problem.

if you have to manually select drives,make sure you set your H/Drive to (LBA)logical block access.

let me know if this works for you. good luck!!

by cul8rm8e

if you think along the lines what you mention in your post.( it wont do a new install or boot from the 4 floppy`s, this indicates that it cant load anything onto your H/Drive because its trying to load onto your cd-rom, which we know is a no can do.

by wevans

Nope, I had already done that, I even disabled the CD-Rom and tried to boot.

by dmiles

The bios seems to not be recognizing the configuration before turning the system over to the computer

Try updating the bios,by using a boot disk with the Flash.exe update

If their were any hardware configuration changes,reverse the configuration and then boot the computer and enter the bios setup,check the hard drive setup to make sure that the drive is being detected,the hard drive may be going bad.

by cul8rm8e

hhhhhhhmmmmmmm, then maybe you should check that your connections to motherboard are correct,on older M/B its possible to have your plugin to motherboard reversed,or vice versa, on most IDE cables it can only plug in one way but i have a few that can plug either way, cause there aint a notch on the plug to determine this! (as i said) ihad the exact same problem and it comes to mind this is one of those things i had to change about cause there was NO way to determine which way it was inserted!check it.

by cul8rm8e

DID yor amchine pick up on the hard/drive from bios? if it didnt this is deffinately the problem!

by cul8rm8e

DID yor machine pick up on the hard/drive from bios? if it didnt this is deffinately the problem!
if it did and was set to use (LBA) logical block access let me know,i sympathise with you mate,but it could be something silly! you think not worth looking at.

by wevans

It's seeing the right HD in BIOS, set to auto or LBA either one, I checked connections, even replaced the ribbon cable!

by dmiles

While all the other answers have not given you a solution to your problem,try these

Boot the computer into safe mode and run scandisk,the drive may have errors or going bad

Check to make sure you donot have a drive overlay installed on the drive

by com_doc-19885035

The problem is not with Windows. Unfortunately it looks like your motherboard has failed. I had exactly the same issue - The system would not boot to any floppy. You might try removing the CMOS battery and leaving it unpowered for several hours. I have heard of that working on occasion. You will probably end up replacing the motherboard. If so, you should try to replace the motherboard with the same brand and model to avoid plug and play issues with Windows 2000.

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