Thanks for your help - all going now - seemed that it was an imaging problem, looks like the drive I was using is somehow faulty. Tried a different drive and voila... might try a low level format ...

FYI - the cachecard LED's operate as follows...

Top LED (GREEN) = Power - should be on all the time
Middle LED (GREEN) = Link - will only come on soon AFTER SiliconDust driver loads, with valid network connection
Bottom LED (RED) = Cache - will be on solid while SiliconDust driver loads and then flashes during normal operation when cache is written to...



I also managed to install a PAL tuner and its looking good - FTA channels all OK - just can't seem to get Prime for some reason (have tried 783.250 Mhz - as I'm in Wellington & receive direct from Kaukau...)

Thanks again...