PCI BIOS bug number 81 lockup!

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 16:44 -0700, cherryfinals wrote:
> My daughter just called in a panic. I setup her system with Kubuntu
> Hardy Heron back on Mother's Day and she has been happily using it
> ever since. 
> 
> This evening, when she tries to boot her laptop, it halts with this
> error message:
> 
> PCI BIOS bug number 81
> 
> And the only way to reboot is to remove the battery. 
> 
> She has tried several times and it always locks at the same place.
> 
> I did a quick websearch and found a LOT of threads and most say it is
> a harmless bug report. None of them give a fix and the few that report
> lockups have no fixes listed, nor even a common cause. 
> 
> Any ideas?

What make/model of laptop? Would she confess to spilling a Coke into the
keyboard?? <grins> Ric