[2Jedismom]

See, the thing tries real hard to boot up...starts going through the process. Then it starts flashing these blue screens with white print on them, but they flash so quickly that I can't read a single word.

But if I keep tapping F1 while it's TRYING to boot up, it'll take me to the BIOS screen. I have the BIOS screen running right now.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Listening to Rose describe the problem after she spoke with you, it sounds like either the operating system or the hard disk has become corrupt; the ultimate fix in either case would be to reformat the disk and re-install the operating system. But, hopefully HP or the GDTS (Geeks Down The Street) can get you a boot CD so that you can boot from the CD-ROM drive and try to recover your data before re-installing.