My HP died - went dead - won't turn on - does nothing but take up space. While googling for a answer to my proglem, I found this web community. There in a thread was my answer. Thanks to that person sharing their own story, I am getting my computer fixed for free. HP has identitied a hardware insure with certian HP Pavillion and Compaq Presanios. copy and paste to get to this site.
It also covers problems with motherboard and bios updates.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01087277&lc=en&cc=us