Thank everyone for all the suggestions. Someone suggested the other day
that I delete and recreate the primary dos partition. That did the
trick. I can now install an operating system and boot from the hard
drive. No more mysterious reboots.

Joe Lore wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Go back to basics.  Since you said you inherited this machine.
>
>Did you check for a Virus on the Hard Drive, with a Clean, write protected,
>virus detection boot disk?
>
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