I just wanted to see what all you guru's fell about BIOS stability
with the current state of motherboards?  The reason I ask this is I am
looking for a new build but stability is the most important factor.  I
have been following this group for some time and know that a lot of
OEM's use the same motherboard manufactures.  But each has different
support for their boards some manufactures do not update their boards
after the first year, so even if they offer a 3 year warranty on the
board.

This build will be a Solaris 10, Gnu/Linux machine and will most
likely be on an Intel chipset, or even the new AMD business class
machines boards.  I want something that is supported after the first
year and something that will not have any little quirks that users
have to get used to or live with. An example of this would be Intel's
boards, I have not heard any major problems with them for what I
need.  I would stay way from Asus, as well as some other board
manufactures due to prior alpha quality bioses.