OK, after wrestling with this "pig" for three days and taking on-board all
the excellent suggestions U guys made, I tried one last thing before taking
it to my local dealer to get if fixed.   I cleared the CMOS and then
switched it back on.  Win95 then installed without error and I have spent
the morning installing software without problem.  Next step is to add
another hard drive on which to install Linux (Red Hat probably).

Thanks for all your help.

DW

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