C655-S5128 won't boot or read recovery dvd's

I caught the FBI Money Pak malware.  Got rid of it, or not so it might seem, and ran scans and Windows 7 repairs and thought all was well.  3 days later woke up to the unit saying it had a software or new hardware issue and wanted to run Windows repair.  I let it and the computer went black.  Several hours later tried a re start and went to bios then tried to load and went black.
The unit will not load in any of the safe modes, nor will it read recovery media made when i bought the unit.  None of the recommended recovery schemes in the manual work. 
Suggestions other than remove the hard drive and start over?

Satellite C655-S5128
Let's try a proper system reset, and see if this helps bring your laptop back.  Power off your system, unplug everything including the AC, remove the battery, press and hold down the power on button for 30 seconds, replace battery and AC, power on, when you see the Toshiba logo press the 'F2' key to enter BIOS Setup, in setup press 'F9' to load setup defaults, press 'F10' to save and exit, then try to boot into Windows again.
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