That is a very old system. I would suggest running diagnostics first, F12 at boot, to rule out any hardware errors. It is also possible the laptop battery has reached end of life especially considering the age of the system. In addition the CMOS battery could be dead and that could be problems. Are you seeing any errors during the OS installation? Of course with a 15 year old system the MB could also be having problems. Again this is a very old system and the possibilities are endless.
Please help. I don't know why I don't want to install any operating system on my Dell D630 laptop - WinXP, Win Vista, Win 7 etc. Every system shuts down the laptop during hardware installation. I don't know, maybe I have something enabled that shouldn't be in Bios?
D630 Latitude - I don't want to install any system