So nothing appears when you hit F8? Strange, Have you accidentally removed any of the Power supply cables inside the machine? That could cause an issue like this.
Press F8 repeatedly otherwise the computer doesn't realise you want the boot menu to show up. Did you just press it once? Once you have pressed F8 a lot, then select the Safe Mode option press enter and it should turn on as normal. Then re-check all the options you unchecked to make sure that it boots.
Are you able to boot into Safe mode? To do this press F8 continuously at startup. Then select the option "Safe Mode" and press Enter. If you can get into Safe mode post back here.
Also try moving the RAM sticks from slot to slot, 1 at a time in each slot, booting the computer in-between to see if it is a bad RAM stick or RAM slot at fault.
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If the Laptop is very hot, this would point to overheating being the cause of your BSOD. The hardware failure error would be the Laptop telling you that it has stopped itself from overheating by showing the BSOD, forcing you to shut-down or reboot. I would see if you can add more fans into the laptop itself or keep the laptop as cool as possible, not blocking the fans currently in use. Did the BSOD have any white error text that looked similar to: "0x0000..."? If it did have an error message like that, jot it down if it next appears and post it here.
You still can try a system restore. Just be careful that you don't send it too far back, and that you keep any documents etc. that you have created after the date you are restoring back to.
Could at a long shot be a virus, so i would update your anti-virus & anti-spyware protection, then run a full system scan. Might find something lurking around in your system.
