Early boot failure with i5 processor + DH57JG motherboard in ubuntu 10.10 and later

Processor is an i5 650 on motherboard Intel DH57JG. This computer worked flawlessly with 10.04.

Starting with 10.10 kernels, very early in the boot sequence (around 3 seconds in after first kernel text), computer would either hang or reset. Latest kernels have never hung but always reset.

I can work around this using nolapic (in which case only one CPU is reported) or nolapic_timer (in which case everything seems to be normal -- 4 CPUs reported).

I'm currently using 10.10 with nolapic_timer and everything seems OK. The information gathered by apport is from this status.

Today I tested 11.04 alpha2 and it still resets without nolapic_timer. Using it, however, it moves on, shows the splash ubuntu screen, but later on it begins an endless loop reporting what seems to be (scrolling very fast) a kernel panic. I think I can see something about registers.

This happens booting from a USB pen and I'm not sure how I could get a log of this boot failure. Any advice appreciated.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: linux-image-2.6.35-25-generic-pae 2.6.35-25.44
Regression: Yes
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic-pae 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: jano 2435 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC2: jano 2435 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/seq: timidity 2187 F.... timidity
CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found.
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf3120000 irq 43'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC889'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0889,80860035,00100004'
   Controls : 34
   Simple ctrls : 20
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'UM1'/'EDIROL UM-1 at usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.1.2, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB0582:009d'
   Controls : 0
   Simple ctrls : 0
Card1.Amixer.values:

Card2.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:2 'USB20Camera'/'PixArt Imaging Inc. USB2.0_Camera at usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.1.3, high speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB093a:2700'
   Controls : 2
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card2.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
   Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
   Capture channels: Mono
   Limits: Capture 0 - 2
   Mono: Capture 2 [100%] [50.00dB] [on]
Card3.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:3 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf3000000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia GPU 0b HDMI/DP'
   Components : 'HDA:10de000b,10de0101,00100100'
   Controls : 16
   Simple ctrls : 4
Date: Sat Feb 12 18:20:32 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=b704466d-db72-4e78-b4ad-d612525904c8
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.

 vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: Tranquil PC IXL
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.35-25-generic-pae root=UUID=7b2dd792-e530-487c-8596-dcdc4949a090 ro nolapic_timer
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38.3
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
UserAsoundrc:
 # ALSA library configuration file

 # Include settings that are under the control of asoundconf(1).
 # (To disable these settings, comment out this line.)
 </home/jano/.asoundrc.asoundconf>
dmi.bios.date: 11/11/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: JGIBX10J.86A.0601.2010.1111.0048
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: DH57JG
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: AAE70930-303
dmi.chassis.type: 2
dmi.chassis.vendor: TRanquil PC
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrJGIBX10J.86A.0601.2010.1111.0048:bd11/11/2010:svnTranquilPC:pnIXL:pvr1.0:rvnIntelCorporation:rnDH57JG:rvrAAE70930-303:cvnTRanquilPC:ct2:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: IXL
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Tranquil PC