-Are you running virius software and a firewall?

Oh yes! And it's a good thing, too, with the crap my brother DLs daily. Sigh.

It's saying it can't boot up, insert the recovery disc. Of course, we didn't make one because we've only had the damn thing for, what, two weeks? So we ordered one. It starts up with with the stupid HP screen with a magician's hand and just... doesn't go to the boot up screen. Thank God no blue screen of death!