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My System Hangs at "Verifying DMI Pool Data" Message

My System Hangs at "Verifying DMI Pool Data" Message. This message is after the Award Flash Screen.
Please help me out..
My system specs are as follows

Intel Pentium III 500 Mhz
Intel Motherboard.
256 MB Ram
80 GB Harddisk
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I don't think the issue is among 1 and 2.
Let me try out the 3rd solution.
I will revert back tomorrow
7 seperate causes of your error message are given here:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000474.htm

Other fixes/workarounds:

http://www.duxcw.com/faq/computer/dmi.html
http://www.dewassoc.com/support/win98/verify_dmi_data.htm
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21547672/Verifying-DMI-Pool-Data-pretty-urgent.html

I think you are right to suspect a corrupted BIOS. Try loading BIOS defaults and then reconfigure.
Yes, I think you need to reset your BIOS.  Do it by whatever method your manual recommends -- also, go into your BIOS and see if there's an entry named something like "reset ESCD".  If so, enable that (we want to reset the ESCD).  Additionally, judging from the specs (PIII, 256 MB RAM) this computer might be a little old?  Perhaps your BIOS battery is dying or has died.  I would get a replacemement...
The third solution has worked !!!
Thanks flashjohny...
The award flash utility has successfully upgraded my bios and now my PC is working...
Thanks also to phototropic and mjcoyne for trying...