Ok Im back, the same 3.6 disk that did not work on my laptop works just fine on my desktop so I can rule out a bad .iso. I'm still very new to this OS so I'm still learning. I tried the alsa cheat but it gave me a message something to the effect of invalid file or the like. I most likely messed something up in trying. Can someone with a little patience walk me through the steps to make sure I'm not messing anything up. and would it make a difference if I just did an hdinstall on a separate partition so I could actually change things????????