"Unknown Hardware" on Vista Re-install

This weekend my Laptop (HDX16-1005ea) started acting stupid, and slowing down to a crawl, not playing video files properly!.. then when clicking on any Office 2007 program the installer pops up trying to install what ever program I was trying to use, then an error message saying a file was not found! 
So I reinstalled Vista, but this time I installed a Non HP'd version of Vista64 that I have the licence for (Ultimate edition) and went from there!..
I'd downloaded all the Drivers and software from the support site and one by one installed them, watching the device manager ping off another piece of hardware to a 'known' driver...
I've not re-installed ALL the available drivers and software from the support site, but there seems to be one stray floating!. Device Mangler shows "Unknown Device" for one piece of hardware and I don't know what it is, weather its important, how to find and install the driver for it!...
As far as I can see everything is working!...
Anyone whos installed Non HP'd Vista/Win7 on their HDX16 and had this... have you managed to suss what it is is and solve the problem??...
Can anyone help?!?!?!?...
Simon.

I think it was the HDD Protection thinngy (did a bit of googling), as the Touch Buttons were working!...
and I say 'Was' as it seems to have sorted its self!... after a few Windows updates (nearly 1Gb or em!!) all devices in the Mangler are now working nicely!!..

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