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DMI pool freeze up

  • 31-05-2005 6:16pm
    #1
    Kernel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭


    Hi Comrades,

    Had an interesting and hungover day replacing my brother's motherboard... but I digress...

    My bro had one of those heavy copper northbridge heatsink, and the stupid Abit IS7 motherboard clip at the northbridge broke (I'm surprised at you Abit!). What happened then was my bro smelt burning and quickly powered down his comp. When he checked inside he saw that the clip broke and the northbridge heatsink was only half on the NB. He saw what looked like heat damage on a small chip next to the NB and AGP slot.

    The weird thing was that the comp POSTed fine, but hung at verifying DMI pool thingy. He went ahead and ordered a new MB from Komplett. I installed today, but the damn PC is still hanging at that point. I know that the DMI pool thing is primarily involved in checking hard disks etc. so I disconnected his two IDE channels (his main OS and another drive are on SATA). It worked without the IDE's connected! I debugged further, and it seems that if I connect the IDE hdisk to IDE channel 2 it works sometimes (not always though), but never works with both IDE channels connected.

    They're are only a hdisk and a dvd burner (on seperate IDE channels so not a master/slave issue). It's a weird problem, and I'm thinking one of his hard disks is ****ed. Anyone got any ideas?


Comments

  • #2
    odie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 364 ✭✭odie


    I know this may sound obvious, but have you tried different IDE cables, maybe use the one of a DVD/CD drive and see if the same issue arises


  • #3
    Kernel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    odie wrote:
    I know this may sound obvious, but have you tried different IDE cables, maybe use the one of a DVD/CD drive and see if the same issue arises

    Thanks for the reply.. yeah forgot to mention that i tried fresh cables. :(


  • #4
    odie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 364 ✭✭odie


    Try the HD's in another PC, to test that they are ok or not. If they are, it may be a dodgy IDE slot on the board.


  • #5
    Kernel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    odie wrote:
    Try the HD's in another PC, to test that they are ok or not. If they are, it may be a dodgy IDE slot on the board.

    Different board same problem... I'll just eliminate the SATA one by one to see how it goes I guess... was hoping for a simple solution though. Hard to think a burnt out chip near the northbridge ****ed up a hdisk... ahhhh well!


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