I found this to be the case with an old compaq 484 laptop I used to have till somebody stole it( there was a partion on the HD to run the bios setup prog. It was all like gui driven, was pretty cool.
I formated the drive and lost this, had to use a prog as said on this thread to put it back
however the despro I have got, has no such partion, and there is nothing in the bios that should be upsetting win2kpro, I have looked throughly.
I find it strange, cause when I had the machine it had nt4 workstation on it, so i tohught great, ill wipe this and just stick win2k on it, no dice.
Btw thanks for the vnc info, works a treat