If it's WinXP, you can hold F8 right after the boot screen and it might give you more options of booting.
First though, I'd try and get to the event viewer in Safe mode. if you can't find it under the control panel > administration tools then type mmc.exe in the Start>Run window and hit enter.
You have to then hit Ctrl+M to add a snap-in. Click ADD in the resulting window and select the event viewer.
Now go through it to look and see why it fails.
There also used to be a choice of booting and making a Boot.log file in Win98, can't recall at the mo if its there in winXP, but the event logs should do the same.
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