Hi and thank you Mark. It helps to understand that this is a forum with many knowledgable people willing to help others :-) I was truly hoping that the problem would be resolved differently but at least the workaround will do for now. IDT really did run fine until the restart after updates. When I performed the start-F2 audio diagnostics and heard sound I knew it wasn't my audio that was the problem and most likely a Microsoft issue, especially with the error 52 in the general tab in device mgr. after the update. I had a live chat with a Microsoft rep that told me to contact the mfg as it was a device problem. I now have 6 downloads of the same driver... lol. Funny thing was it truly does/did say that the digital signature was not valid so my thinking went back to something to do with the updates. Then upon more searching I found how to make it so windows 8 would load the driver without a valid signature and voila... sound, beautiful sound !!! Now all it says in device mgr is "this device is working properly". I do regular maintenance and did run all the diagnostic tests and everything passes on my notebook. Thank you for all your help and Kudo's to you for being a willing participant on this forum !!! Thank you and I too am very happy that everything is running smoothly now.
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