Satellite C655-S5305 fails to boot

My daughter's Satellite C655-S5305 laptop won't boot. She reports to have shut down the computer this morning (without any updates or having downloaded anything) and says that the computer won't come back on.
Upon pressing the power button, the Toshiba screen comes up, then changes to a blank screen with a flashing cursor in the top left corner. The cursor just continues to blink and nothing else happens.
After researching the forum, I've tried pressing F2, F12 and have settled in to reverting to factory settings. After pressing "0", the screen develops about 1/4 inch of multicolored dots at the upper margin of the screen and nothing else happens. After pressing F12, then selecting the HDD recovery option, the warning screen appears and after selecting yes and hitting enter, the same thing occurs.
Short of sending the computer in for service (it's less than 2 months old), I'm out of options. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

My laptop is only 3months since I bought it went blank and it will not boot. Nothing on the screen, I tried external screen but it will not switch, Caps and Nums buttons work, but network doesn't seem to work, fans spin warm air so there is some activity. I pulled battery off and restarted it at least 5 times now, pressed F2, F12, and tried Fn with various combinations, yet nothing happens! What do I do???

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