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Thanks for the help, Clintfan! Consider myself properly chastised for flashing BIOS a little too gleefully - I've flashed BIOS probably a dozen times over the last 10 years and never had a significant problem ... probably means I'm lucky. :)
Also, a quick note to say how much I appreciate the free (volunteer?) help you've provided me (and it looks like you provide a huge amount of help in general on this forum). For me, working on this problem had long ago gone past the "cost effective use of my time" (buying a LAN card is not very expensive compared to my time), and is in the "I refuse to give up on this problem out of sheer stubbornness" category now. :)
Ok, now to some details:
1. The chip next to the AGP slot appears to have the following numbers / letters printed on it:
3COM
Marvell
840-NV00 (could be 940, but looks more like an 840 to me)
40-0799-000
(something illegible)
8311 80P
2. The AGP slot is equally spaced from the first PCI slot.
3. The ATX12V is to the upper left of the DIMMs.
4. The PRI_RAID connector is hanging off the side of the mobo - instead of plugging a cable in from the "top" (like the other connectors), a cable would have to be plugged in from the "side".
5. The 875P chip is in a diamond orientation.
From your description, it's probably a non-E P4C800 Deluxe. I flashed to that BIOS, and had problems booting up (as described previously), but that's probably due to either not using the right flash utility, or missing a BIOS setup config parameter, and quickly reverting back to the known good BIOS (I'd rather not have to re-install WinXP, although I can if needed).
Unless you think otherwise, I'll follow your instructions for flashing to the non-E BIOS and see how things look ...
Again, thanks!
Cliff
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