losing too many tics error

[peter at farrows.org (Peter Farrow)]

Hi There,

I know exactly what this error means, I am using Centos 4.2 on a Via 
EPIA system booting from a 2Gig Flash card.

Power management is disabled and the flash card seems to work ok with 
DMA enabled (its a compact flash on an IDE adapter).  But this crops up 
every day or so and the machine hangs.

I have several of these boxes all from difference batches and suppliers 
and they all do it....

If anyone has any ideas I'm open to suggestions as how to cure this, 
I've tried all the usual.

I am using Kingston 2Gig Single level cell flash cards (medium - high 
speed).

Regards

Pete