First, thanks for all your suggestions!!

I stumbled across the problem....it was a bad floppy drive.
I unplugged the cdrw and floppy, and voila!!...I had video, and  it booted
into XP.
Thought it might be the cable but switched cables and same thing....strange
there were *no* beeps....the fans whirred, but no video, no nothing.
It would *not* boot with that floppy.  Luckily I had a spare,
plugged it in, and problem solved.

Thanks to all!!

Cal

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