veryfing DMI poo,data

[Giacomo1234]

I have just built a computer for the frist time. I'm using a gigabyte SINXP 1939 motherboard with dual bios and a western digital WD600jb 60GB hard drive. I aet up the bios correctly as dicated by the gigabyte manual but the system freezes at 'veryfing DMI pool data' and will not request boot disk (no operating system installed yet, obviously). ive tried resetting the CMOS checked cables and jumpers but everything seems ok. Is my hard drive or motherboard failing? Initially i had set the jumpers incorrectly on the HD does this damage the HD irreversibly? i am waiting for friend to bring round another HD to check. I think its the HD or MB because if i set the cdrom as boot attempt before HD then the cd disk is read but freezes when i must accept windows terms and conditions. what can i do?

 

[Giacomo1234]

forgot to say very important thing: the bios does recognise the hard drive but the cylinder number is of the order of 28000 whereas the cylinder number quoted on the western digital website id of the order of 16000. what do i make of this? thanks

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

i believe LBA changes your cylinder config... what happens if you set it to boot with a floppy?... have you fdisk and or partitioned the drive yet?
What OS are you loading?..
if xp then boot from cd but still must create and format the partition...
if 98 or me then you must run fdisk to create the partition then format

 

[Giacomo1234]

i am trying to load windows XP
thanks for swift reply

 

[Giacomo1234]

LBA still does not give me cylinder config stated by western digital (7297). sorry but am new to some of this what exactly do you mean by fdisk/partition at this stage?

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

if your loading xp and and boot from the cd... the first screen is to set up windows, the second is licence.... and this is where yours is hanging..... try locating a WinME boot disk and booting with the disk at the A: prompt type fdisk then hit enter and see if it will access the drive and allow you to create a partition...

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

BTW you should be able to get the bootdisk from

http://www.bootdisk.com