Hp g61 unresponsive, wifi light blinks 3 times when pressing power button

Hi,
I'm attemping to remove a virus from a freinds g61. I intended to install NOD32 from a USB stick to clean it up before allowing it to connect to my wlan.
On turning it on, Windows firewall reported that PremierOpinion was attempting to use the internet. The machine was away from it's usual wifi network and had no connection to mine.
Before I could tell firewall to not allow it, the machine went into sleep or suspend and became unresponsive.
I powered it down by doing a long press on the power button and that worked fine. But, now it won't power up.
I've done a hard reset - remove battery and power, press and hold power button for 15 seconds, but reconnecting power and battery and pressing power makes the wifi light flash 3 times and nothing else happens.
I note that 3 capslock flashes points to bad memory and I reseated those and tried combinations of different modules in different slots but with no luck.
I'm not finding any references to the wifi light flashing 3 times, which is what I'm seeing here.
Can you help at all? Have I killed my freinds laptop?
Paul

OK partial solution. The battery was flat. The owner is using a non OEM charger and it's not very good. Coupled with the CPU eating battery because it's flat out running all the virii, the charger can't keep up.
I'm cleaning the thing up now via safe mode. This can be closed. I'll post nack if I need more guidance.
Paul

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