After 6 weeks of Uni without a working PC, I can finally officially say it's now working again (fingers crossed). I actually got so sick of waiting for my broken motherboard to be fixed that I ordered a new one that arrived last weekend, which turned out itself to be faulty - so this is my third one!
I'm gonna try and gradually get back online more and more, but the workload at University and other things to do are quite time consuming so I won't be online as much as I used to be for a few weeks I expect (at least until all this semester's essays are in).