Sorry for not getting back to you sooner randruff. I've switched the hard drive onto my other IDE cable like you said and it boots up fine. Had a bit of trouble getting the hard drive close enough to my cd drive so the cable could reach both of them (the layout of my computer seems to have been designed so that everything is blocking everything else) but its all done now and working fine.
Thanks very much for the advice. Its saved me paying someone to have a look at it and I'm sure they'd of said i needed a new motherboard or something. Quite satisfying being able to fix my own computer.
thanks again
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