MacBook Pro 2008 won't start up - can anyone help?

I had left my Mac on last night and came down this morning to find it wouldn't respond. I could hear it whirr a bit but nothing on the screen. I pressed the shut-down button, thinking that it would shut down and then start up again. I could see the light at the front go off and it shut-down. When I pressed the button to start-up again there was no dong noise and it sounded as though the DVD drive was trying to read the DVD that is in there. The fan started up after a while and then it went 'dead'. Still nothing on the screen.
The fan has been making a lot of noise when I am doing something that seems to be demanding and I know the battery probably needs replacing. It has been cutting out after a very short time of usage without power without even warning me that it is running low.
I would be very grateful if anyone has any suggestions.
Thanks,
Susannah

There's no telling what's wrong - it's most certainly a hardware problem and can only be properly diagnosed by a qualified Apple technician. If I were you, I would take the machine to your local Apple Store or AASP and have them run diagnostic tests on the machine and give you an estimate on what it would take to fix it.
Sorry, but it's difficult to diagnose these types of problems over the Internet...
Clinton

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          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,2
          1 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
          8 GB RAM
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