Watchdog timeouts and motherboard

[Eric Cho]

I have been getting watchdog timeouts on one of my computers with
FreeBSD versions greater than 5.2.1-RELEASE. It originally had an old
nic (dc0) but I switched to a Netgear FA311 (sis0) but I still get
watchdog timeouts. When I boot with an install cd/floppies I tell it
to configure for DHCP, but in the second terminal I get some watchdog
timeouts, then it puts me into the configure screen without ip
address/etc filled in. When I input the values by hand it still
doesn't work. The cards themselves are fine as far as I know, because
they work alright in linux. Putting the nic in a different PCI slot
didn't seem to help either. There was a post on freebsd-hackers, I
think, that had a patch for some kernel code to fix this or a similar
problem, but that didn't help.

Could this problem have anything to do with the motherboard? Should I
try updating the bios? This is an x86 computer.