I have the same motherboard and the same problem: no forcedeth, sata,.. both x86 and AMD64 2.6.15 kernels. tested with flight5 & 6 Adding "pci=nommconf" to the kernel parameters fixes it for me too. -- ACPI does not work on Asus motherboard with nForce chipset https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34651