Hello,
I'm not sure if this is a hardware or software issue. I think it might be my hard drive crapping out, but not sure.
For the past week, my PC has been giving me trouble, and I'm not sure what set it off.
When it's off, and I power it on I ALWAYS have to hard shut down and turn it on again, as it never comes on the first time.
The power light will come on, but nothing is being sent to the monitor. I hard shut down and turn it on again, and it will work.
It restarts fine.
For some reason, my anti-virus and firewall will not run. Sometimes if I go into the computer management, and restart the anti-virus service, it will start working. Sometimes it won't.
Right now my firewall is working, but most of the time it doesn't.
A COUPLE times, when I powered on, I got a pop up message saying something to the effect that there was a problem with the registry, and that some entries had to be restored with a backup, and that it was successful.
Firefox is constantly crashing.
There is something else, but I can't think of it.
I've tried a registry cleaner/error corrector, but that doesn't seem to have changed anything.
What do you think the problem is? I do not think it's a virus, as I always keep the firewall and AV software up to date and RUNNING.
Does it sound like it's the hard drive?
Thank you for any HELP.

forgot to add: my OS is Windows XPEliminate malware as a problem. Run scans .......... Could also be a mechanical issue (power switch worn out).....Check CPU and memory (reseat)...swap out power supply to eliminate PS....Check the easy fixes first.mine did the same untill a hacker was removed from me but check what process are running and see if ther are any you did not put in there. The haker that got me destroyed my brand new cd hard drive and the drivers to run it and connect to anything there are a lot of things that cause thi HOWEVER i agree your switch is more than likely bad Ya, I know for sure there's no malware or viruses.
I will check the power switch and make sure nothing's loose in there.
thank you