Verifying DMI pool data......?

[oceaneer]

When the computer reaches this screen after most cold starts, it sits there for around 20 secs before continuing to boot, yet sometimes just flies right by it. What is happening here?

The other issue is on cold starts, it will nearly always say, " setup is updating files, continuing to load windows". As I have changed nothing, why is it doing this, and what is it updating?

Neither of these issues happen on every startup, and they don't seem to affect the performance any, but I am curious as to the cause.

Anyone?

[omegaRED]

Well, and this is just a wild guess, it could be the CMOS battery ... maybe it is near-dead and the BIOS is reverting to the default settings (and thus the "setup is done updating files" msg) ... Could you check if the BIOS settings are the same as the ones you specified (if you did change them that is)?

[Wombat]

I have the same "setup" thing going on. My BIOS is fine. I haven't had any luck tracking down the issue.

[oceaneer]

My bios is fine, and the cmos battery is only a couple of months old.

[The PIT]

As for updating files I always get that after I play tiger woods golf 2001. God knows what it's doing but it doesn't seem to mess anything up. As for the Bios god knows but if nothing is going wrong just leave it.

[omegaRED]

Well it was worth a shot ...