Freezing upon boot...plz help!!

This is my sons computer and he started it up just fine. Began to type in the search engine and it froze up. He then tried to restart it. When he did that the toshiba screen comes on stating press F2 or F12 (don't remember what they say. The screen then goes black with a blinking curser in top left corner and it beeps a few times very loudly. The screen then goes to one of three different system screens but it won't let you enter on any of the choices it just freezes. Can not get to the log in options or any further. I have tried taking the battery out with the power cord plugged in but then it will only stay on for about 10 seconds and shuts off. I have held down the F8 key while starting it and it still freezes. I tried putting in the windows disc and starting it but I can't get anywhere with that. The laptop is only a year and half old. I know that windows was last updated on 5/1/11 and stated up to date. He runs AVG antivirus and that was done on 5/1/11 alos and came back no viruses. He shut it down on 5/1/11 as normal and didn't get back on it until 5/4/11 when all this started. I know that it just updated to IE9 a few weeks ago. He has never had any issues until last night it worked great until then. He is running Vista. Any suggestions?

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the recovery discs .. put those in also but they do nothing.
Follow the instructions in the section Hard Disk Drive Recovery using the Recovery media, which begins on p. 66 of the User's Guide. ("When the initial screen displays, press F12.")
Satellite L300 Series User’s Guide
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