Comment 10 for bug 972723

Update: blacklisting ite-cir seems to fix the problem:

Ran
    echo "blacklist ite-cir" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ite-cir.conf
    sudo depmod -a 3.2.0-21-generic
    sudo update-initramfs -u -k 3.2.0-21-generic

For each of the affected kernels through 3.2.0-22 and was able to consistently warmboot and coldboot. 3.3.0 and 3.4.0 dailies have an additional, probably unrelated, crash later on in the boot sequence.