Thanks confus-ed. I assume you meant to remove the question mark from my post. If it's not, please let me know! Sorry if I jumbled the facts. When I got the comp., it only had the onboard sound card. It wouldn't boot all the way, it would hang up at SB something so the guy at work said the sound card was probably bad. When I unplugged the wires from it, it booted fine. So I bought a PCI sound card and read somewhere that I would need to disable the onboard sound which I tried to do but am not doing something right because when I remove the devices in Dev. Mgr. and restart, windows keeps detecting the hardware. In the Dev. Mgr., it detects (4) Ctrystal PNP devices audio systems:
1. CODEC
2. Control Registers
3. Joystick
4. MPU-401 Compatable
I guess I'm not reading something right on the hp help page to disable correctly. Thanks!