kt7-raid and Verifying DMI pool hang

[Dag]

Help!

My home computer for the past 2 years is malfunctioning! It is a kt7-raid non-tweaked setup running raid0 with two identical Fujitsu disks. The only HW-"near" change I have done in the past year is usage of external USB-disk and USB-printer.

I believe the BIOS is reporting a UL version.

Symptoms:
RAM gets counted OK (512)
BIOS seems OK
RAID disk is reported
Interupts get listed (Input NA is OK?)
Verifying DMI Pool... hangs.

I removed all external HW except power mains and keyboard. Same result. I removed the keyboard too: I get one step further - Verifying DMI Pool... Verified. Then the system hangs.

Booting a DOS5.x from a floppy is OK except for not being able to see my harddisks...

Anybody with a solution for this that will save my system, preferably without loosing data?

Dag

 

["Jens C. Hansen [Odense]" "usenet[]greylion[=]dk"]

Dag wrote:

My home computer for the past 2 years is malfunctioning! It is a kt7-raid non-tweaked setup running raid0 with two identical Fujitsu disks. The only HW-"near" change I have done in the past year is usage of external USB-disk and USB-printer. I believe the BIOS is reporting a UL version.
Symptoms:
RAM gets counted OK (512)
BIOS seems OK
RAID disk is reported
Interupts get listed (Input NA is OK?)
Verifying DMI Pool... hangs.

The usual suspects are the capacitors on this model.
Check for bulging and/or leaking caps.
This picture shows bulging caps:

http://www.motherboardrepair.com/images/BadCaps3.jpg

Booting a DOS5.x from a floppy is OK except for not being able to see my harddisks...

If they are formatted in NTFS, they will not show up in DOS (except as a non-DOS partition in fdisk). Neither will partitions starting above the 8 GiB limit.

 

[Skid]

There's a good FAQ and troubleshooting guide for the KT7 at http://www.sudhian.com/showfaqs.cfm?fid=2 There's a lot of possible fixes in the boot section.

"Dag" wrote:

Help!

My home computer for the past 2 years is malfunctioning! It is a kt7-raid non-tweaked setup running raid0 with two identical Fujitsu disks. The only HW-"near" change I have done in the past year is usage of external USB-disk and USB-printer.

I believe the BIOS is reporting a UL version.

Symptoms:
RAM gets counted OK (512)
BIOS seems OK
RAID disk is reported
Interupts get listed (Input NA is OK?)
Verifying DMI Pool... hangs.

...

 

[Dag]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:24:04 -0000, chris wrote:

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:06:19 +0100 and in article
, Dag said...
: Verifying DMI Pool... hangs.
:
Re-install your OS. I know this sounds like a cop out, but it will usually solve this problem.

Do you mean that reinstalling W2k will 1)function 2) not kill my data on the disks?

search google groups for a *lot* of postings about this issue.

I know, but I looking past the Windows ME and win98 problems I did not find very much of direct interest - or I must have overlooked it.

Thanks for the tip
Dag

 

[Dag]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:52:02 +0100, Jens C. Hansen [Odense] wrote:

Dag wrote:

My home computer for the past 2 years is malfunctioning!

<.....>

Verifying DMI Pool... hangs.

The usual suspects are the capacitors on this model. Check for bulging and/or leaking caps. This picture shows bulging caps:

http://www.motherboardrepair.com/images/BadCaps3.jpg

Would I be able to boot of a floppy if bad capacitors is the root of my problem? Dag

 

["Jens C. Hansen [Odense]" "usenet[]greylion[=]dk"]

Dag wrote:

Would I be able to boot of a floppy if bad capacitors is the root of my problem?

Maybe. After some time it will become impossible.