On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 23:32, Paul Venezia wrote:
> I meant to include more complete traces in my previous post, but I'm
> having some odd problem with serial consoles on this box so I only get
> partial clean output. Here's what I can gather at the moment:
> 

this may be a case of "the" bios bug; could you try passing "idle=poll"
to the kernel ?
If that helps you need a newer bios....