Macbook won't turn on

I have a macbook that is about 1 year old. I got a message in a black pop up box that said that I needed to restart the computer, it was in several different languages. I restared the computer once, about 2 minutes later the same screen popped up again, this time, when I restarted the computer it wouldn't reboot. it sound like it's going through the normal processes. I can hear it trying to boot but then it just quits. The screen is black during the whole process, I can't even get it to come to the "apple" screen.
I've tried restarting it without the battery
while pressing x
While pressing shift
while pressing cntrl command and p r
I tried taking the battery out and unhooking the power supply and pressing the on button for five seconds. basically I've tried everything the apple website says to do on their trouble shooting page but have gotten no results.
The last time I tried to reset the pram the computer gave me a series of loud tones in a cycle of three and the power on light would flash. I have no idea what is going on

You will find information on your issue in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=379417

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