I finally got a screen with the choice to Repair, Recover or Restore the OS.
I chose Restore and when asked what to use, chose disks. It took the 3 DVD
disks made the day I bought the PC (I posting from the laptop) and restored
from them. All was well until the MS updates came down and were installed.
SAME PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!! I found the MS fixes for problematic updates and
ran that. It said it fixed three problems but was not specific as to which
ones.

It's called MicrosoftFixit.

It booted fine after the fixes. I'll know after it's turned on and off a
few times if it worked.