Can't install any OS in Presario SR1319RS - please help

I have "inhereted" a HP Presario SR1319RS from my friend. The PC was working well until it got a virus. He gave it to me because he bought himself a new one.
I deleted everything, including the System Recovery (F10) partition. He did not have the original CDs that came with the PC anymore. Anyway, I have tried to install Ubuntu and Windows XP in separate ocassions. The PC restarts itself when the Ubunty installation process is about to start. It cycles itself all the time.
When trying to install Win XP, I am able to format the hd (SATA), create the partion where the OS will be hosted, but after going through that process and copying every file necessary from the CD to the PC and when it's about to initiate the installation process, it reboots itself. It does that everytime.
I have tested the memory modules and hd in other PCs, and they work w/o any issues. Is there a "special" way that HP used  when putting this PC together.... that you know of?
I don't want to label this PC "unusable" because I knwo it can be salvaged. So, please let me know if you know of any tricks, advices or gossip that you know and could help me fix this PC.
Many thanks in advance.

You're very welcome.
That I do not know.
Did you try only one memory module in the PC at a time to see if one is flaky and causing the problem?
I once had a PC that was behaving like yours.  It did have a bad capacitor which I had an electronic tech friend of mine replace.
I thought that was the problem.  Nope. XP would get to a point and crash.
So, I decided on a whim to just run the PC with one memory module (there were two).
I tried with one and XP crashed as usual.
But when I removed that module and replaced it with the first one I took out, XP loaded fine and that was the problem--a partially bad memory module.
I replaced it (actually I maxed out the PC to 4 GB) and it has been running fine ever since. It even has the same chipset as yours (Intel 915).

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