Problem building Norton Ghost Boot diskettes for K8N Neo4-F motherboard

We recently purchased 25 sets of the following components to build computers for a classroom.
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AMD Athlon 3200+ 939 pin
Kingston DDRRAM 400 512 mg
ATI Saphire
Enlight 300 Watt +3V/25A, +5V/25A and +12V/15A
Western Digital 80 gig 7200 rpm IDE drive
Sony DVD/CD_RW combo drive
Windows XP Pro sp2
The computers work fine, however we have been unsuccessfull in building a Norton Ghost boot diskette for these systems. The motherboard has an onboard Marvell gigbit LAN chip but neither the BIOS or WinXP or the install CD recognize this chip. All three think the motherboard LAN is an Nvidia. The NVIDA drivers work fine in Win XP but when we attempt to build the boot diskette if we use the NDIS drivers supplided on the install CD for the Marvell LAN the boot diskettte can't find the Marvell controller chip. If we use the NVIDIA NDIS drivers the boot diskette finds the controller but gives us the following error "media test failed check cable". The cable is fine because we can go ahead and boot into Win XP and everything works fine.
I know that the Marvell gigibit LAN has a virtual cable tester built in but I could not find any discussion of this chip on either the MSI, Marvell or NVIDIA sites. We added a 3COM PCI LAN card to one of the motherboards and the boot diskette will work fine wit hthis combination. I would like to find a cleaner solution if possible.
Regards,
jdraper

What you need is a compatible NDIS driver. I am not 100% sure about the hardware. I know their site says a Marvell 88E1111 PHY, but you still use nVIDIA drivers. Here is a link to download basic NDIS drivers:
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/fattach_get.php?p_sid=PaNaTd1i&p_tbl=9&p_id=25&p_created=1141061119&p_olh=0
These drivers will also assist someone trying to use WinPE as well.

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