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Here's what happened:
I'm using the computer normally (BW open, music playing, web browser, messenger, etc) and the alarm sound goes off, which I guess can only indicate that the computer is overheating. It's strange that it'd overheat though because I've never had it overheat in a cold room with the PC out in the open. I shut down the computer, but Windows XP was waiting to do an update, and in my haste I didn't choose "shut down without updating" and so the first of 5 updates begins. I'm thinking my PC is melting, so I just flip the switch on my power supply to shut down the computer.
I wait a while and turn my PC back on, but it freezes after "Verifying DMI pool data". I have tried to boot from Windows XP CD, but the screen goes black shortly after saying "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware...". I believe I successfully reset BIOS with the jumper but that hasn't changed anything.
  
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Hmm, sorry I can't really offer any advice but that really doesn't sound good --;;
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Sounds like hardware corruption. I'm guessing you waited like a min or 2 for a soft reset when you cut power. The freeze is weird try unplugging anything unnecessary to run your comp like extra HDD, ROM drives extra sticks of ram etc. see if you can not free during your CD boot
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On November 14 2008 05:09 Liquid`NonY wrote:
Here's what happened:
I'm using the computer normally (BW open, music playing, web browser, messenger, etc) and the alarm sound goes off, which I guess can only indicate that the computer is overheating. It's strange that it'd overheat though because I've never had it overheat in a cold room with the PC out in the open. I shut down the computer, but Windows XP was waiting to do an update, and in my haste I didn't choose "shut down without updating" and so the first of 5 updates begins. I'm thinking my PC is melting, so I just flip the switch on my power supply to shut down the computer.
I wait a while and turn my PC back on, but it freezes after "Verifying DMI pool data". I have tried to boot from Windows XP CD, but the screen goes black shortly after saying "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware...". I believe I successfully reset BIOS with the jumper but that hasn't changed anything.
Hmmm that's an intersting problem...
I dunno if it was overheating or not, in all my experience it just starts automatically rebooting when overheating... but when in doubt take the cover off and feel how hot it really is?
definitely sounds like faulty hardware, if you have another computer laying around with similar parts, i would one by one trade them out to find what's faulty... put other comp's ram in, try it, fail, put ram orig ram back in and try vid card... ect ect... sounds like it could possibly be the motherboard though.... no idea holmes.
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DMI is some sort of hardware abstraction layer which lets the operating system load on top of almost any hardware.
can your computer boot into the bios without a hard disk? if it can, then it means that you don't have a bios problem (which would be good). Assuming that you don't have a bios problem, then try to remove components that are unnecessary for boot.
If you truly have a bios problem, then I'm not sure that there's much you can do if you already tried to reset it.
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What was the alarm exactly? Windows itself doesnt have any sort of overheating indicator as far as I know.
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You should first check that the HDD is identified in BIOS. If it's not make sure your IDE/SATA cables are connected properly. Try HDD in another computer if you have one availible to see if it's broken. If it does show up in BIOS you might want to try fixing the master boot record. Instructions here: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000474.htm
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Try taking out your ram sticks and putting them in one at a time and see if it works with just one ram stick, could be a faulty ram problem.
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Computers shut themself off when they're overheating, they don't warn you about it because by then it might be too late 
If you remember the beep (how many, etc.) you can look it up in your bios's manual. But it's probably hardware related.
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I'm pretty sure this problem has fixed itself, considering he is in Korea now using the eStro computers in their practice house.
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