I don't begin to understand most of this, but it's very good to have people with helpful advice even ehen I don't know what it means.

I'm pretty sure my connections are good connections, though I'm not sure about whether I've got the right power cable (that's the little plastic one with multi-coloured ribbons on it? - that's the only one I've disturbed, and there are two identical ones to choose from).

"Setting the IDE channels to autodetect in the BIOS" - that sounds very like the stuff they say Star Trek to me. What does it mean I should do?

I tried the add new hardware option - the wizard didn't detect anything relevant. When I went through the listy of possible devices the only one that seemed relevant was "hardware controller", so I clicked for that, and it said "you are using other devices that conflict with the hardware you are trying to install.

I think I should offer my services to the people who put out computer books with insulting titles ("idiots", "dummies") as a quality controller. If I didn't understand what they write, the books wouldn't qualify as kosher.