Help me me to recover Equium A300D

Laptop will not respond whilst booting up to any key commands F8 F5 F2 and it also will not respond to holding down "c" to boot from recovery disc, I have done all the normal things like power down etc, I wish to do a full recovery on this machine, Equium 300D Vista premium
WHAT DOES HAPPEN!
Switch on. Hard drive light flashes as normal, but I do not get any progress loading bar or Toshiba innovation logos (nothing) hard drive light continues to flash for ages but still nothing happens.
Now for the daft bit, If I persist on trying to boot up for many many attempts it might load up eventually but then after 1hr or 2/3 days it will turn off randomly and Im back to square one.
Please can you advise me?
Any help would be gratefully accepted.
Bob

At last i have managed to get this machine recovered to factory settings (don't ask how, it just decided to.upon one of a hundred trys the improper shutdown screen displayed, and i repair/hdd recovery from there.)
Got all excited after a weekmof trying different things, Everything was fine last night and for further 3 hrs this morning. THEN IT ALL HAPPENED AGAIN.
Laptop just all of a sudden shut down, On attempting a reboot ,everything is loading up behind a black screen as i can hear the welcome intro and the other jingle on final boot up..
So would i be right in thinking that this is a hardware fault as the machine software seems to be working ok in background behind a blank screen.
What can cause this sudden shutdown, i know its not overheating as i have hdtune running and temp does not go above 40 c.

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