Using 10.5 have had system slow down used pr ram now all I have is a blue screen

need help used pram to reset system now it either shows the pin wheel turning or sometimes it will go to the blue screen but nothing else. all started when I downloaded one of the security that apple sent to down load.
need help please what to I do now, are we looking at a bad hard drive?

sorry if this is a duplicate response first one said error.
is this the battery under the airport card section?
also installed a disk for hardware trouble restarted and held the C key came up with mac-boot. did this and I got a file folder with the apple Icon face and a question mark flashing back and forth . what do you think? could all of this just be a loose connection to the hard drive? Battery read on digital meter 3.1 volt dc I know under load this could change.

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