For a start, try these:

Windows 98 or Windows 95 Defaults to Safe Mode
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=143283

The Computer Always Starts in Safe Mode
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306615

If no joy, post back and let us know exactly what is happening and what the
exact error messages are.

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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"J Lo" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a Windows 98 machine as part of my set of network
computers. My babysitter was using it, apparently, for
MSN chatting.

When I "woke the computer up" today, it had a fatal
error message. I tried to restart and it went to the
Blue Windows main screen, sat there for a few minutes
(never going to the desktop) and then rebooted itself to
the screen that gives me a choice to load in safe mode.

I remember that one of the messages said that there was a
problem with msgsvr32.

What can I do to start to try to find out the problem?
Can anyone give me some ideas?

J Lo