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Beat Productions
01-16-2011, 12:35 PM
Fairly regularly now upon reboot, the bios boots and everything stops at "Verifying DMI pool data" so I have to recover from an Arconis backup. Nothing new hardware has changed but this happened AFTER installing Pro Tools (both with PT 8 AND 9). I updated the bios and checked the hard drive (it happens on 2 separate Windows 7 64 bit hard drives). Anyone else experienced this? ideas?
Vinark
01-16-2011, 02:38 PM
If I understand you correctly and this happens during the booting of the bios, it is totally independent of the OS and HDīs. So no need to do anything with them!! It is an issue with the motherboard or the connected hardware. Did you try a bios reset with the bios jumper and removing the battery? And maybe even a new battery.

Another thing. If you are rebooting because of a crash and you never have the issue from a cold boot, it could also be severely crashed hardware which needs a cold restart. A simple reset wonīt reset the hardware then. And since you are using protools and if the crash happens there, this is your prime suspect. Protools asio is new and it could crash the rme in such a way it canīt reset (or maybe the Ilok, try removing that before the reboot).
Animus
01-16-2011, 05:51 PM
Make sure your hard disk boot priority didn't change and/or also reset the CMOS (battery/jumper). Either of those are usually the fix when I have gotten that.
Beat Productions
01-17-2011, 08:16 PM
Thanks for the replies! The cmos thing makes sense but then, why can I recover from an Arconis image and everything is back?
Animus
01-17-2011, 09:24 PM
Thanks for the replies! The cmos thing makes sense but then, why can I recover from an Arconis image and everything is back?


Sounds like maybe your boot file (which is stored on the boot disk) is getting corrupted and it is restored with the disk image.
Beat Productions
01-18-2011, 11:59 AM
Sounds like maybe your boot file (which is stored on the boot disk) is getting corrupted and it is restored with the disk image.

Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. Does anyone know of a boot fix/restore program? I tried booting from a W7 disk and chhoosing repair to no avail.
Vinark
01-18-2011, 12:44 PM
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000474.htm