virus or hardware problem?

my laptop at home is on the fritz right now and im not sure what exactly the problem is. it has trouble turning on and when i manage to turn it on, after a while the computer freezes at unholy levels (can't move mouse or hit control alt del). I dont know if my virus software is out of date or whatever but it hasnt been able to find anything. please help i dont feel like paying geeksquad to look at my lappy for five minutes and then say "im sorry we can't do shit unless you pay us a fortune" im pretty sure someone here has a good guess whats wrong

any1?

Sounds like either terrible overheating or bad RAM.

I'm sorry we can't do shit unless you pay us a fortune.

thanks for the help

any other ideas overheating might be the case

any other ideas overheating might be the case

Bad RAM was also suggested. Try using MemTest32.

I doubt it's a virus. Possibly bad RAM or a your motherboard fucking up.

You probably need to reinstall windows to get rid of all the viruses

>>10
correct, they did it on Mythbusters

>>11
No they didn't I have seen every episode and none of them had anything like that in them.

>>12

lol