System boot failure

Hello,

Hello everyone, I'm somewhat relativily new to pcs, and have had no major problems up unticl recently. While I was work my pc shut off. When I came home from work wasn't able to get it to reboot.

i'm running a GATEWAY model #GM5084, if that makes a difference. I've tried rebooting it with the recovery disc but nothing works. No matter what mode I choose, be it "safe Mode" or "start from your last sucessful starting point" or whatever... I"ll click one and then a small white bar goes across the screen and once it's croseed the whole screek the pd dies down again.

Sometimes it will sho like a dos directary file as it's crashing, hard to read it all cuz it's fast. At this point I'm willing to give up everything on my harddrive if i could just get my computer back... such a pain..

Any pointers? questions? directions?
hit me up
Enk