Wow, Im thinking it might be hot as well now that he's not responding at ALL.
If you cant get into the laptop, there are some ways around it (if XP Home, boot in safe mode and use the Administrator acct, no pass by default). Otherwise, pull the hard drive and install it in a desktop/usb enclosure and look at the files that way. See what EFILive/AutoTap stuff's on there. Then wipe it and install XP (if you want to use EFILive) or Linux.