Questions tagged [dmi]

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What is DMI Pool Data and why is it verified?

What is DMI Pool Data? Every time a computer here boots up it comes a message that says Verifying DMI Pool Data............. And then it comes: AMD data changed...Update New Data to DMI! What does that mean? Is there something wrong? Should I do…
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Is possible for a manufacturer to fake the RAM limit in the DMI table?

I was thinking about upgrading my laptop's RAM. It currently has a 4096 MB module and a 2048 MB module, which I thought I could replace by an 8 GB module: [root@...] # dmidecode -t 17 # dmidecode 2.12 SMBIOS 2.6 present. Handle 0x001E, DMI type 17,…
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dmidecode --type memory showing wrong DDR type?

A few weeks ago I decided to upgrade my laptop memory. In order to determine which type I need I used the following command on my Linux box (Ubuntu 10.04, not inside VM): sudo dmidecode --type memory And the output was: # dmidecode 2.9 SMBIOS 2.5…
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Computer stuck at "Verifying DMI Pool Data"

I'm trying to troubleshoot this problem, I've had it happen before and I fixed it but nothing seems to be working. My assumption is that since I can boot off the windows recovery disk this is purely an issue with corruption of MBR/BCD/Boot…
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Correcting inaccurate DMI data

I bought a refurbished Thinkpad T410 which has the incorrect Product, Verion and Serial number entered in the DMI data. I installed a new OEM disk of Windows 7 Pro. While installing the Thinkpad drivers I realised that the machine was being detected…
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Acer AM1100 stuck on Verify DMI Pool Data

I have an Acer AM1100 and I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate. Windows has properly installed but right now, when I boot up the system, I get stuck on "Verify DMI Pool Data". I also tried to reinstalled the whole thing but this happens again... Any…
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Machine keeps rebooting after hitting the 'Verifying DMI pool data...' stage

As it starts up, it only ever gets that far before spontaneously rebooting. It won't even respond to attempts to boot from the CD rom. I've put a HD from an identical machine into it instead and it works absolutely fine; when I put my HD in as a…
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Verifying DMI Pool Data after installing windows 8

Possible Duplicate: Computer stuck at “Verifying DMI Pool Data” I have installed the windows 8 customer preview and now when I boot it says verifying DMI pool data, i left my computer on overnight and it still says it How do I fix this?
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