I dont seem to have any problems ( use this machine as a cheap h/w random number generator, so its always under load ~ 1 )
Same board, same model. Thanks for the information.
This looked and felt like an acpi induced problem. I discovered that acpid was turned on for some reason, so I turned off the acpid daemon and it has behaved well for the last day. Are you booting yours with acpi=off as well ??
Thanks again.
regards,
benm