Back in March 2007 I bought a pair of laptops to send my kids off to college with. Last week one stopped working. After checking with the HP tech site, I found there is a known defect with a long list of HP laptops.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=ca&docname=c01087277
I checked and the product numbers checked, so I called their tech support. Naturally this program ended 8 days ago, so HP will not repair the laptop. After speaking to a supervisor, he was pretty blunt about it.
Just a little feedback about HP computers for you. Operating life of 2 years is pretty bad.