I tried all of your sugestions, but made no progress. It could be a bios issue,
but have no real way to flash the bios since this computer is not dual booted so
I can run the bios using DOS. And the bios maker (intel) does not to my
knowledge have a Linux version to flash the bios. This is a 2002 machine and
there is a 2008 bios for it. This may not be the answer so I will have to wait
for for 10.4 to be released to see if this problem will be addressed.