Finally, the media center will boot again

Thanks to scouring through endless google searches for “Verifying DMI Pool Data…” I finally ran across this forum thread, which had the kind of suggestion I always like to find: simple, easy to try, and no way in hell it could possibly work.

It turns out that switching the jumpers on my hard drive from Master/Slave to cable select (both Wester Digital) allowed my computer to boot up just fine. I’m not asking any questions. This is a BIG step forward ever since The Big Crash two weeks ago when my projector, media center, and car all died within a 24 hour period.

I’ve given up for tonight because the damn thing doesn’t seem to think there’s a TV Tuner card installed (there is, I looked). I’ll worry about that tomorrow. For tonight, I’m just happy the damn thing boots.