Hi again,

I've got more information now... I've been playing around with things as per
the suggestions of these who have kindly posted replies, and it's still not
working. I've now tried the drive on the other IDE channel with nothing else
plugged in, tried just the floppy drive (I can't boot off that either), and
also just tried a CD runnable version of Linux called Knoppix... this boots
and runs fine on my computer, but it isn't working on this one at all... So
I really don't know what's going on... if my friend can find the receipt for
the motherboard, then I'll get it replaced, and post what's found to be the
problem.

If anyone does have any further ideas though, it'd be much appreciated!

Simon