also, what program is it not finding?

As you have installed P2P there is a good chance you may have aquired a worm or two and this sympton is common to a few worms that come with these programs.

Do you have any spyware or adware...

The monitor message will be from the monitor itself, this is common in some monitors and should not be the focus of your investigation.

Initialy, I would check the cooling fans in your system. If...

Have you installed any P2P software lately? Kazaa for instance.

Smartdrive is used today to speed up the install process of Windows on certain PC's.

Take a look on google for a bootdisk that comes with smartdrive available.

However, most home PC's should...