Matt,
I doubt that HP will exchange the hard drive, not that it would matter, since the Authorization key is hardware dependent, and the hard drive is only a tiny fraction of the key.

I suspect that the speakers are bad, due to a hardware issue. It's no fun, but that's my guess.

Gary

I'm blessed watching God do what He does best. I've had a few rough years, and I'm still not back to where I want to be, but I'm on the way and things are looking far better now than what they were!