Big bad problem

[crazyvato]

my computer will post check my drives and everything then it goes to the next thing which it says veryifing dmi data pool if i remember right. Verifying DMI data pool......... Update Success and then it restarts it does this over and over again (reposts)
I recently bought a new moniter and memory I had to remove the stick of memory because it kept crashing my system. this is an abit IC7 mobo with the hardware down below

 

[Ignad]

-Were you plugging/unplugging ram with the motherboard powered? You MIGHT have caused some damage unless you either unplugged the system or turned it off via the hard switch on the power supply (not all power supplies have this switch)
-Were you careful about static when working on the computer?


Anyway I'd try each of these... each step followed by a cold boot to see what's what.

-ground yourself and make sure the motherboard isnt powered and then check/reseat all cabling and your ram, vid card, etc... eyeball EVERYTHING while you're in there.. make sure the cpu hsf wasnt disturbed by your pawing around, that all fans are running, etc. Note that AGP vid cards are very sensitive to placement in the slot and are easily knocked out of alignment.

-clear cmos and then set bios settings extremely conservatively (e.g. no overclocking, slow memory settings, slow AGP down... to 2x no fast writes, no side band... etc)

-remove any/all non-essential hardware (optical drives, floppy, sound cards, nic, modem, etc)

-start swapping out parts till you find the culprit (try easier stuff like the IDE cable, an old vid card, or another power supply, or say put your boot drive in another computer as a secondary drive to see if it spins up ok... since they are the easier parts to test.

Good luck.