Cannot use OS on my Satellite P10-304

Hi - I wonder if anyone can help me. I know this is an old laptop, but it is my old favourite and my son uses it. I turned it on this morning and it wouldn't load windows (XP) at all. I tried to boot up in safe mode to do a scan, and it got started, then all went wrong again and kept going to a black screen with white text. This I have been trying on and off all day with no luck...
I have nothing of any importance on there so I thought I would try and to a complete restore back to Factory Settings. I put in disc No: 1 and it gave me the option to do a full recovery. I selected that (option 1) and then "continue" after the warning that it will delete everything... then it goes to "!!!!!!!ERROR!!!!!!!!" and I have to exit.
Not too sure where to go from here...
Any advice would be very much appreciated... it has been working fine up until now albeit slow to get going.

P.S. The initial scrolling on boot up is...
Intel UNDI,PXE2-0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM

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