Oh Cripes, now things are not working and I now have doubts that they temporarily were.

I have been working with two q800's half stripped side by side.

I now believe that I accidentally did the fresh install on the q800 with the full 040 fpu in it -- which then proceeded to work as it had already been working. (I thought it was the q800 with the lc040 therefore I reported success above.) This was done too late at night I suppose.

The next evening when I got back to taking a closer look at things I noticed the q800 with lc040 was actually not working properly and giving me those f-line errors. So, I tried to do a fresh install (7.1.1 US version) on the q800 with lc040 in it but the installer kept giving me some system error with restart as my only option. ( and i know the installer CD and CD drive are good, cause I just used them successfully the night before.)

I can't spend any more time on this so am abandoning this downgrade for now. I have put the full 040 back in the q800 which works again and will have to wait to upgrade the lc630 at some other time.