Steelseries usb soundcard drivers blocked

Hello ..win 10 up to date. 12gb ram , old PII 965 be processor , 7870 gpu.

getting a message in device manager under System DEvices/ High Definition Audio Devices:

This device cannot start. (Code 10)

{Operation Failed}
The requested operation was unsuccessful.


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seems linked with AMD .. Driver provider AMD; driver date 15/08/2016 ; Driver version 16.40.0.0.

DOn't know if anyone can shed some light on this?

However I have a steelseries usb soundcard which tried to update drivers for . I D/L from steel series homepage bot the installation was blocked by Norton stating :

WS.Reputation.1

File is SteelSeries_usb_Soundcard_1.0.4 ...and obviously being an old file seemed to have a large numbers of d/l's

Has this beeen flagged because it's not been used by the community for a long time OR is there a real threat?

thanks in advance.