[REquest] Aopen Digital Engine DEX4501 -- Mobo I45GMT-HC

[paredown]

This machine has AMI BIOS ver. 2.06, with very few options enabled.

Latest version of the Bios is ver. R. 1.06 downloadable here:
http://global.aopen.com/products_downloa...?auno=2890

In addition to a little more control, I also seem to have problems with the onboard NIC. I wondered if there had been something set to deactivate the NIC while it was in the field, and whatever that might be is not getting reset when flashing?

When I got the machine it had a branded splash screen and an older bios version. Flashing it to 1.06 gave me the Aopen "Digital Engine" splash screen, but I really struggled to activate the Nic. I did a clear Cmos, remove battery and "Load Optimal Setings" before it would activate. I just swapped in a faster processor, and the Nic stopped working again, and I had another struggle to get it working.  (I used the AFUDOS filename.ROM  /P /B /N /C recommended by Aopen.) I thought I might have better luck if I flashed it at the first released bios, but that did nothing either.

There is a companion bios for a slightly different I45GMt motherboard (have one of those as well)--and it is at release 1.07 here. I can see no difference in functionality and in fact tried this bios on the DEX4501 as well, but it too did not magically make the NIC work.
It is here:
http://global.aopen.com/products_downloa...?auno=2664
(No troubles with the NIC on this one; it has the MoDT splash screen)

A modded bios for both or just for the DEX4501 would be appreciated.