Well, thanks for the attempts at help anyway. I have ordered a nice new high quality ATA133 HD IDE cable, a new Artec power supply, and enough CDs to backup my files. Once I get the delivery I'll low level format my pc to NTFS, reinstall everything, then download a new copy of the Pside trial. If it continues to fuck up, I'll get onto the helpdesk, but I don't see what they can do tbh if it's not already in their knowledge database.
If the updates weren't only obtainable through the app, I could use my T3 access at uni to download the files...
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