Still baffled by the mystique of booting up. Kindly provided by alisoncc and present in the drivers loaded for the (working) Nvidia ethernet adapter when running in 'normal' windows mode are:
WINDOWS/System32/bdco1.dll
WINDOWS/System32/bdco1ins.dll
WINDOWS/System32/DRIVERS/nvnetbus.sys
WINDOWS/System32/DRIVERS/nvnrm.sys
WINDOWS/System32/nvconrm.dll
At which point are these drivers for a chip on the mobo loaded and how can I see where and in which particular call they are loaded since there is no sign of them loading in a bootlog? The aim then would be to see where it is that they are not being loaded in safe mode.