no yellow exclamation points. I did however today download the windows service pack 2 that it has been asking me to download, do you think that it might have done that to my audio?

That is very possible but reloading that driver should have worked.

Maybe you need this first:

Summer 2003 Original Audio Driver Collection(English)

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...tem=pv-15947-2