Went down to Austerfield to have a look at the mount Rhys said it disconnected half way through a photographic session sure enough when clicking connect on the ascom control panel the dome connects but not the scope (mount).
First thing I did was exchange the hard drive (easiest) but to no avail resat the serial card in the pc still no connection ran out of time will have to come back tomorrow'
Next day tried to fire up the pc but unable to mount master disc that turned out to be the ide connector wasn't fitted properly from the day before unable to go any further so will have to take advise.
Dave