e1000e unstable on a new board

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 10/15/2009 11:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Whatever changes you made to your BIOS settings to bring out this
> problem....please keep them secret.  We wouldn't want anyone else to
> miss out on the chance to experience the same adventure.  :-) :-)
>    

Well, since you asked so nicely I stayed up several more hours and 
tinkered with it. It will be no surprise to anyone here what the culprit 
was -- ACPI. Changing from ACPI 2.0 to 3.0 in the BIOS causes it. Simply 
changing back to 2.0 is not good enough either. You have to completely 
power off and back on to have a stable system again.