Comment 5 for bug 193922

Marking New because I have had this problem since last year, and it persists into 9.04. I have tried upgrading the BIOS from A06 to A15, but with no change.

The symptoms for me are a complete lock-up, sometimes with blinking LEDs for the panic. Possibly relevant is that gkrellm will sometimes Oops rather than cause a panic if run with the i8k plugin, and messages involving corrupted low memory appear in dmesg. Attaching a syslog of two errors occurring in gkrellm. After a few seconds of the i8k plugin working gkrellm either dies or the system locks.