Satellite A505-S6005 wont boot up

Let me expain what happened.
I graduated yesterday and as a graduation present I recieved this laptop. I have only had it for about 1 day and it already crashed. My father was helping me install some security software called Panda. After installing it we had to shut the computer down for it to take effect. It took forever to start back up and sat at the welcome screen for about an hour. This morning I was able to use it just fine but then shut it off to conseve power and so I could go do something else. When I came back to it the screen still said it was shutting down. My father used to work for a computer company and told me to hold down the power button and turn it off. So I did. Ever since then it will take me to the Windows is starting page (I have windows 7) and it will sit there for hours on end then the screen will go black. I have tried restarting it but it will not let me start it in safemode. The number lock will work but it is delayed. I know it is not completely dead because the number lock works. Please please help me. I'm desperate. I dont have a back up disk or anything. I was going to do that today but then this happened.

Satellite A505-S6005
It may very well be a hardware problem, in which case you would want to return the computer right away.
But first try restoring the hard disk to its original factory-new state using Toshiba recovery media. See the section Recovering to out-of-box state (recommended recovery method) starting on p. 61 of the User's Guide.
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