Hey old timer,
I checked out the image you have of the device manager...my device manager looks similar the only question mark I have in my device manager is on "Other Devices" which "multimedia video controller" is listed and also has a question mark...here is a link to my system and the factory specs
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...name=c00511148
That shoud give you an idea of what my system has, all I use is the graphics card, sound card, usb ports..It has a tv tuner card to watch and record tv but i dont use this as of yet..but plan on once I get this problem fixed. Could it be this is the hardware that is trying to find it's driver???? if so there is no info on the type of card it is and what the driver is...if you need I can take a snapshot of my device manager so you can see what it looks like...thanks for your reply and to you and barbara thank you so much for you help... I really do appreciate it..
Mario