Computer Crash?

[Broni]

You're welcome, and no, you're not any pain

Im confused about how burning an image onto a CD will help my computer?

It'll create bootable CD. You put CD in, restart computer, wait for a message "Press any key to boot from CD", press that key, and run memtest for couple of hours.
In order to see what type of hard drive you have, I need your computer service tag#. Post it back, and proceed with memtest.

[krnjm]

Ok, I burned memtest onto a disk. But when I put the disk in, I cant open memtest.

Do you think I would be better off taking the laptop in somewhere to be fixed? Any idea how much that would cost?

[Broni]

Since we don't know (yet) what's wrong, it's impossible to say how much it'll cost.

Did you restart computer with memtest CD in? Did you see a message "Press any key to boot from CD"?