I'm curious as to why this always seems to happen with 945 or newer
Intel motherboards; could it be related to their "legacy" BIOS
emulation?  I had an intel motherboard based on an ATI XPRESS chipset
(101-series), and this did not happen (btw, don't buy that board, it's
about as configurable as the USSR's economy was).  I have never seen
this problem on any other hardware, although I believe I might've seen
it on a sun4c machine running OpenBSD once.

I think I'm going to see if I can get developer's documentation for
this board from intel; I'd like to also figure out why my USB ports
are randomly disabled and why the ACPI fdc driver can't map the I/O
space the motherboard tells it to.  It's very stable hardware (I wish
I had ECC memory though)   , but it has many, many quirks that I'd
like to resolve.

--Blair

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