MBP won't reboot after an aborted Software Update

My daughter away at college attempted a software update (10.5.8 Combo). She was also in the middle of loading a software program (matlab). The computer started to make a continuous "crunching" sound and got very hot, so she shut-down the computer before the update was complete. She can no longer boot-up the computer in OSX Leopard. She could not eject the matlab disk in OS X, however, was able to eject the disk through windows. The Vista windows partition (bootcamp) boots-up fine. Does someone have a suggestion to restore OSX? Erase the hard drive? Thanks

willmaciam wrote:
My daughter away at college attempted a software update (10.5.8 Combo). She was also in the middle of loading a software program (matlab).
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
Both at once????
She can no longer boot-up the computer in OSX Leopard.
What happens when she tried? Has she tried booting with a shift key held down (into "safe mode")?
Does someone have a suggestion to restore OSX?
Install OS X 10.5 over the top of what's there ("upgrade", the default). That requires a "retail" OS X 10.5 installation disc. Then try to apply that "combo" updater again.

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