intermittent starting problem

[toxicologist]

I have a 2000 Intrepid and I've only experienced this problem once, yet. The other day when I tried to start my dash lights came on and my cd receiver was working but the starter wasn't kicking in. My battery light wasn't on. There was a electronic whir that stayed at the same pitch until it just stopped after a few seconds (not like a decaying pitch as if something were dying). I think that might have been my cd receiver. There was no click sounding like the starter was kicking in. I decided to open the hood and check it out. I looked inside and just tried to start the car and see what I heard under the hood. What do you know...when I turned the key the car started, no problem. So, I'm thinking the starter is going because I've had this same problem before on another car. But I was wonder what you guys thought. Could it be the ignition switch, etc?

Stephen

[AWP9521]

Ignition switch is a good possibility, my old 95 Concorde did that, when it started getting to the point that it did it more often, I opened up the power distribution box and removed the Starter Relay then removed the relay's cover and reinstalled it, when it wouldn't start with the key I left the key on, opened the hood and removed the PDB cover and presed down on the relay contactor to start the car. Changing the ignition switch switch fixed the problem.