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Chrome uses their own "pepper flash" instead of the normal Adobe Flash. I've had issues with Chrome and videos before. Maybe you should have tested the system with Firefox with the Adobe Flash plugin instead.

Or you could disable pepper flash and install Adobe Flash for Plugin-based browsers.
http://www.enounce.com/chrome-disable-pepperflash

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashp...ribution3.html


Didn't you install the network drivers? You couldn't get to Windows Update from Internet Explorer? You should only use IE for Windows Updates, not Chrome.

Like I said, if you got physical CDs, then your system wouldn't have a recovery partition. It might have had a diag partition, but that's different. The point of having a recovery partition was so that they wouldn't have to include physical discs. I.E. save themselves money. Also, the recovery partition wouldn't be that big. Maybe 10GB or so."
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No, not each incident. I had purchased an HP service contract just over a year ago for unrelated matters with other hardware. It expired on the 9th and my reformatting began on the 12th. I suppose the agent who interested me in the renewed contract felt sorry for me, because it was offered at a huge discount over the one last year. My experience with the 3rd party folks has ranged from outstanding to disgraceful, and while I take responsibility for all of my computer failings, last evening's session hit rock-bottom.

So here I am back at square one, worn but hopefully much, much wiser.