Safe Mode won't load

[Panic]

I have WinXP SP2 which, in normal use works fine. Recently I find I cannot
boot into the Safe Mode. It starts its loading but after the welcome screen
it reboots automatically. I have scanned with NIS and SpywareBot and find
nothing there. I did a repair install with my WinXP Home SP2 disk to try to
fix it if a basic Windows file is corrupted. No improvement and it took me
FOREVER to get the recent XP updates back on my system PLUS Internet
Explorer 7.0.

Anyone have any solutions for this problem?

 

[Panic]

FWIW. I solved my problem and others may wish to know how. I found I was
able to use msconfig.. general... to set for a Diagnostic Boot and then Safe
Mode loaded OK. So I then used the same page to uncheck "load systems
services" and selected "selective startup" again w/o the systems services
loaded. It still booted into Safe Mode OK. Now I knew it was a services
problem. So I rechecked "load systems services" and opened the Services
tab. I unchecked any service that wasn't from MS.

It still booted OK in Safe Mode. So now I re-checked the non-MS services 3
at a time and check for Safe Boot OK. On the 4th group Safe Mode wouldn't
boot so I knew it was 1 of those 3 services as the problem. I isolated it
to "Spywarbot scanning engine" as the culprit, unchecked it and re-checked
the remaining items. Safe Boot still OK.

It appears my Spywarebot program either became corrupted or isn't compatible
with WinXP Home SP2 Safe Mode. It seemed to work OK in Win normal mode. I
used Add/Remove to take the program off my computer and advised Spywarebot
people.