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Steve

For some reason after i installed Windows XP on my
mothers' computer it gets stuck (frozen) in DOS right
after it tried to verify the DMI pool data (the last
thing that it says is "Verifying DMI Pool Data" on my
screen). I have tried almost everything that i possibly
could. If you have any ideas or suggestions it would be
greatly appreciated.

Steve
 
I had this EXACT same problem - i found that as soon as i
took out all the drives except the harddisk then rebooted
it worked fine - i then went into mycomputer > manage >
device manager - and removed all drives and IDE
controllers (except via controller if u have an amd) and
then rebooted - it reinstalled all the hardware and
started working fine! GL with this and btw the ms support
had NO IDEA what to do and blamed RAM then BIOS then just
told me to FO.
 
Removing the drives may be what fixed it, rather than what you did in
Windows, as the computer hasn't even gotten to the hard drive to read from
it at that point. Since it's not reading from the drive yet, changing
something in Windows couldn't have had any effect.

It's more likely that something wasn't plugged in all the way, and by
unplugging the drives and plugging them in again, you fixed the problem.
 
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