Oops. Oh boy, I really wish I’d read this before trying to install XP on my 5800……..

I now have a 2 month old machine that appears useless, completely locked up as per deKay’s orginal ‘problem 4’ and as far as I can see, irretrievable. Cannot even get into the BIOS to boot from an alternative device. Have rung the Techguys (not Philips) support and been told, wait for it, the installation of any other OS invalidates the warranty.

So, there doesn’t appear to be much point in sending it back to pay for them to sort it – I may as well try to do it myself. presumably by removing the HDD and reformatting in another machine as necessary. Would be very grateful for anyone who has a walkthrough on how to dismantle one of these babies