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Originally Posted by ElGringo

Just to give an update, in case anyone else encounters this problem...here is where I am. I finally got Windows XP installed (more forgiving in the install process). It would continue to do the same thing with that install. So I continued to play with it. It turns out when it was not connected to the charger it would run just fine, but when connected it would only run in safe mode without reboot. So I searched more with make and model of laptop and this specific problem. I came across a strange solution, disable 1 of the 2 processors, and it worked. Problem now is getting it up to Windows 7, as it would reboot during install. Solution there was, install windows 7 to the hard drive on a different computer, put hard drive back on original computer, boot into safe mode (after installing numerous drivers) go into device manager disable a processor (intel core 2 duo t5550), reboot, and it is working fine (obviously installed Windows 7 32 bit). I will probably be searching for a better solution than disabling a processor this week, but it will get her by for a week.

You might check to see if there is a BIOS update, there might be a bug fix for that.