Comment 10 for bug 528720

I reported the same set of symptoms on Ubuntu 10.04 with bug 586471. Uninstalling irqbalance 0.55+20091017-3ubuntu2 in Synaptic allows me to get past logging on and use the system normally. Thank you.

As I am new to Linux, I could not immediately see how to edit /etc/default/irqbalance which is owned by root, so simply performed the uninstall as I had found sudo.

My mobo is also an Asus P4S800.