khaosnconfuzion

I am new here, and hope someone can help me. My wife's computer has been having a scad of problems the past couple of weeks, such as: shutting itself down with no warning, etc. We are pretty sure she has been hacked, so we decided to do a reformat and install Windows XP Pro. Her system: Compaq Presario with a Celeron processor, and a 30 gig hard drive. The system wipe went well, but when we went to install the XP Pro software, as it is formatting, the computer shuts down in the middle of doing the format. I am at a complete loss, because I am not the most "programming-savvy" person, but I know enough I should be able to install an OS. Can anyone give me step by step to get it set up? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Dosfreak, thanks... I took off the case, and it started installing. It was copying files, and stopped with an error message: "Could not copy the file:ir32_32.dll", and gave me the options to retry, skip, or quit. I have tried all of them. It keeps getting to that point and telling me the same thing. I cannot get past it. If I try to skip, it gets about 95% done, the progress bar turns red, and it restarts. I have to start from scratch at that point. Any ideas? Edited to say: BTW - It shut off as I was sitting here waiting for a response...LOL I'm going nucking futz! I'm about to take this thing to tha alley with my sledgehammer...