>>> I gather that IRQ7 is what the PC interrupt controller chip generates
>>> when it sees a glitch on an IRQ line.  I have changed the motherboard

>>If the message is only appearing upon opening or closing the device, I 
>>don't see much cause for worry.

>	I have three pee cees at home running NetBSD/OpenBSD, and all three
>of them generate stray IRQs when serial devices are opened or closed.
>	Likewise, I've never lost data over it.

Just FYI, I have two NetBSD machines (Pentium, and AMD 5x86), and
neither generates stray IRQ messages (and, neither did my Pentium Pro
for the short period of time I was testing NetBSD on it).

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