MP-BIOS BUG

[Maurice Murphy]

On boot up, I always get the following error message:

MP-BIOS BUG: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC

To date this has not been a problem, but when I attempted to install the 
driver for my Logitech Quickcam Messenger using ./quickcam.sh, all 
appeared to go well except for a failure reported during the final 
build.  Here's the excerpt:

[  126.533289] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[  126.533467] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[  126.573185] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
[  126.573225] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...  
failed.

Has anyone any ideas how to fix this MP-BIOS bug?  Should I amend 
boot/grub/menu.lst to get a noapic boot? If so, how do I do this?  Or 
perhaps I should just invest in some new non-HP hardware! :-(  :-(  :-(

Many thanks in advance,  Maurice

PS I also have found the following start up error.  How serious would 
this be, or can I just ignore it as it doesn't show prior to grub loading?

[    0.142327] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:00:00.0

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