Satellite P305 S8842 Problem

Two Separate Problems, Same computer
I've had my laptop for about 2 full years now and it has started to develop a strange problem. Sometimes when I turn it on and it begins to boot up it will suddenly turn off in the middle of booting up. In order for me to be able to use my computer I will have to wait for a while until it is able to boot again. It seems that the longer I wait to turn it back on, the farther it gets in the boot process before it turns off once again. Or if I start a program like a DVD or something the fan will run really loudly and then the computer cuts off once again. Im inclined to think its not an overheating problem because the computer is not hot whatsoever to the touch although I can hear the fan working somewhat loudly. I tried to start in safemode and it gets all the way to where its about to ask you for your password and it turns off right there every time now.
Another thing, a couple of times when Im on my laptop the screen suddenly changed to a weird/static looking screen with a bunch of different colors on it and flicker to different variations until I finally cut the computer off and restart the vicious circle.
My current situation is my laptop just last night got a nasty piece of malware which is pretty simple to get rid of if I could only get to safe mode.
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP.

Satellite P305-S8842
Downloads here.
Code 38: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the ...
Probably the reader is malfunctioning, Bill, but try reinstalling its driver. You can first uninstall the existing one in Device Manager.
O2 Micro Card Reader Driver for Windows Vista (32/64bit)
-Jerry

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