well cheers everyone...

in the end i swapped my office pc and music laptop over, with a few upgrades for the office one and now everything is working sweet....except my firewire port on the desktop wont read my firewire hard disk (they run the 828 fine) any idea why this is??
the hard disk works fine on any other pc ive ever plugged it into and used to work on my office pc when i had an audigy running its firewire...

cunts