Pretty much the steps I went through before hand.
But I already had an admin spot on her computer, so that step was taken out. Surprisingly she said I can use it while I wait for my cord(must be because my birthday is this week, and she's in a Christmas sort of mood.)
The only bad thing is that this 1.8ghz Single core AMD Sempron Processor isn't going to run anything, save maybe minecraft.
Anywho, HP says they'll send a new one out and it should be here by Monday 12/13.
Ended up getting the misses to talk to the techsupport guy. Dealing with someone who's just reading off a prompt and knows less about computers than you is a bit troublesome.
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