Virus preventing PC from POSTing

Hi All.

One of the PC's at work got hit by a very nasty email virus. What happened was the boss opened an email from an unknown address and downloaded and opened an attachment (I know, I know!).

He says he got a message saying that the computer was infected with a virus and was shutting down. SInce then when I try and turn it on all I get is a continuous beep for about 4 seconds and nothing else. I tried putting the windows xp disk in, but cannot even access the boot order to boot directly from CDROM.

I am planning to take the HD out of the office PC and stick it into my home PC as a slave in order to wipe it clean, then put it back into the office PC for a clean install. Am I risking damaging my own PC in the process?

Thanks in advance for any help and advice I may get.

Cheers all.
Aaron.

 

OK. Managed to sort this myself.

Installed new memory, rebooted, deleted temp internet files, run antivirus software, hey presto!!

Thanks for looking anyway.
A.