screen hangs cant even access safe mode

I upgraded from win98 to win2000 with apparent success. I restarted and everything seemed to work ok. I then reinstalled new modem driver and restarted computer. The screen hung at the windows 2000 professional opening screen. Tried rebooting a few more time with no success.

I then tried to reinstall win2000 thinking that was the simplest thing to do. When I restarted the computer loaded the cd-rom without a problem and seemed to install ok. However when I tried to restart and then press F*8 to enter safe mode, I get a screen with a light blue background which says windows 2000 professional and the small dialogue box that says windows 2000 setup, please wait.

And, I wait and waitÉ.I canÕt seem to access anything whatsoever.i donÕt have a boot disk or an emergency repair disk however I do have the w2000 upgrade disk and access to another PC.

How can I solve this problem

Any help gratefully received

kerry

Try removing the modem from the system and see what it does, if that was when in became an issue. It could be a resource conflict that generates from within windows due to assigned resources to the memory.