Tony, I checked the usual stuff, but to be sure I might try lifting a pin on the ethernet chip. It seems that bit D5 is stuck: write FFFF, read FFDF. Am I right to assume that D15 is the MSB and D0 the LSB in that notation?

Or is there any way to check ethernet without a drive installed? Hm I havent even tried that!

Ladmo: good luck! Did they tell you how much the surgery would run? I might try it myself, have some of the "proper tools" at work 8-)

Armin