If anyone's curious, you may be interested to know that the XPS is aliive!!!! Turns out the problem was a bung video card. Tried putting in my GeForce 4 Ti 4800 SE, and it booted into XP. Gave it a complete stripdown and rebuild this morning. All I will say is this - whoever designed that bloody case is just lucky that i'm not armed!!!! I swear - the very next time I get a PC with a decent case to strip, its going in there! You guys might complain about the Quadra 800/PM8x00/9500 series cases, but I tell you - I'd rather strip one of those than that bugger any day of the week!

Anyway, bit of good news - it supports both Coppermine chips (via my Slocket adaptor) and my GeForce! Pulled all the good bits out of the BritPC (a Viglen HomePro P3/450, if anyone is curious) this morning and i'm currently in the process of sticking 'em all in the XPS - at the moment its sitting downstairs with the drives disconnected, as I've been out on a couple of jobs today and haven't had time to finish it off yet.

Only thing is that I think I'm going to have to flash the BIOS, as the P3/1 Ghz chip I've put in it is only running at 754 Mhz - apparently from what I've read online, updating the BIOS to A13 is supposed to resolve this.

Still, it'll be pretty nice to have a fast P3 with a very decent graphics card, I must admit!