Cant get f8 key or boot to cd

more detail would help us trouble shoot your problem, such as ur notebook brand and specs.. your definition of F8 is when you boot up your windows?

Acer extensa 5220, cant get f8 to go to safe mode wont boot into windows vista os if you put a cd in drive to try to load os to a new hdd just get hyperglithics if put in cd with existing hd get press key to boot to cd but it hangs and eventually brings up another error if you press alt f10 to try to go to recovery partition the computer reboots

Please use sentences. Trying to read something like this is a pain.

Anyway, I would test your memory and hard disk with the Ultimate Boot CD.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

as stated it is an acer extensa 5220, and the option of hitting f8 to get other start up problems does nothing

memory and hdd are fine you can read the hdd in another computer

You ran the tests and they were all green? Just because they work for a bit in another computer doesn't meant they're good parts.