Virus causing shutdown

[rdono1]

My Toshiba Satellite won't start up. It powers on for 1, 2, 3, 4 seconds and then abruptly shuts down. This happens in normal or safe mode. Beyond that, right before this problem, the keyboard and touchpad weren't working properly. Plus, had automatic shutdown in middle of malware scan. This seems pretty bad.

Any thoughts? Thanks much.

 

[mouse24]

Er, I would try and boot into a linus live cd, if that fails its probably hardware related. Does it shutdown when you are sitting in the bios?

 

[rdono1]

Er, I would try and boot into a linus live cd, if that fails its probably hardware related. Does it shutdown when you are sitting in the bios?

It seems to shut down at various different times in the process. Sometimes immediately, sometimes after I am able to start Windows normally. When I get to Windows, the keyboard and touchpad are not functioning properly. Either not typing a key, or just continually doing a string of symbols. The problem with trying to load up using a CD (I think I downloaded Kspinsky sp?) is that when I get to that screen, I can't use the keyboard to select any options.

 

[mouse24]

Have you tried an external keyboard?

 

[edwardsmith]

Can you try to getting help from some " Tech Support " team member.

 

[marcel_str]

If you're able to use keyboard again, try to directly hit alt+r and type 'shutdown /a'. This should abort any scheduled shutdown after which you can inspect your system.