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Computer hangs on Verfiying DMI Pool.
This is an extension of a long-running intermittent problem. At irregular intervals of days weeks or months, my computer will fail to start windows at power up, hanging at that point in the boot cycle where it would decide which device to boot from.
Cutting right to the chase, if I use Minitool Partition Wizard to boot from and then select "Boot from Hard drive" (instead of into PW), Windows will start normally. Currently, if I try to start directly it hangs indefinitely.
Does this point to a motherboard / CMOS issue rather than a hard drive boot sector malfunction? I've been running this system for 4 or 5 years and nothing is overclocked - the m/b is reset to its stable defaults.
Last edited by RogerR; 09 Feb 2014 at 15:00.