I have been reading for the past 6 hours, I have uninstalled , reinstalled....nothing (well, I do still get the beep when you get an error msg) Could my sound card be dead? Would/could a USB sound card help? Could someone give me an idea of what to do next other than trash this thing? Oh and in my device manager, the items under "other devices/base system device are marked with a yellow question mark AND an exclamation point!