Um - on the aesthetics side, there's the mouse icon - which got totally trashed (looks like a block of randomly coloured pixels) - but apparently this is a known bug (which makes it alright?) when using Unipod with StrongARM/Kinetic/Select (I forget which).

Then there's the fact that I can't seem to do anything with it. It was supposed to have unlocked the USB and networking, but no go. Installed all the software that came with it and carefully followed the instructions, but to no avail. No documentation that came with it indicated how I might be able to recognise correctly functioning USB, but on plugging in a USB device, I'd have expected the system to respond in some way.

So, wanting a mouse pointer back (as the 'guess which pixel in the block is where the mouse is pointing today' was not my idea of fun) I removed the card. Alas! Now something is broken in the boot sequence, and I no longer boot into the screen resolution/colour depth of my choice (though !Boot seems to think I have, as when I hit Monitor configuration, it claims already to be in the correct screen mode). I don't mind too much as I can live with a little tweak everytime I reboot. (Though I wish things like this didn't happen!)

So I called STD a couple of times, left messages - but I guess they're really busy with the mass loads of work they were reporting at the time 'cos nobody got back to me. Maybe I'll give them a try again sometime soon.

We emailed Lewis at the time asking for tests, backplane reseating, confirmation that a certain manufacturers network card hadn't been removed (as removing it without the software barfs the boot sequence - talk about brand loyalty), boot sequence tests etc.

As always, and in the absence of a response to our tests, I'm sure that Matt would be happy to run through things in detail on the phone.