Toshiba S50-a-10R will not boot

Hi,
My laptop started acting up very awkward.
Yesterday, i used it, it worked fine and all was good. Today, i wanted to open it, and it would not boot at all.
It turns on, it shows me the toshiba logo, and then it shuts down.
I managed to get into the BIOS / Boot selection (the place where you select from where to boot), but that's it.
I don't know what to do... I have never encountered such a problem on a laptop/PC.
PS: I also read on some forums that there is a hole in the bottom-left part of the back-panel of the laptop, where if you put something like a needle or a paper clip, and hold it there for ~10 seconds, it will reset the BIOS battery (or something like that). I did that, i even kept the paperclip in there for longer than 10s, nothing happened. It still didn't boot up.
Has the BIOS suddently malfunctioned? Even so, there is no way of re-flashing the BIOS if i'm not in windows...riight?
Any help is apreciated!
Thanks!
(Here is a wetransfer link to a video of how the laptop acts up...: http://we.tl/lusyaGlzbL)

That doesn't appear to be a US model, and this is the forums for Toshiba USA. You may want to contact Toshiba in your region.
If it's a European model, you could check the Toshiba Europe forums.
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