Ponce-De-Leon,
You are a genius. I updated this laptop to version 6.17-40 and it worked great.
I did find in the software updater under Security Udates/System Components, 8 items that referenced Kernel 7. I unchecked all of them and ran the updates and no Kernel 7.
Do you think that on the forum there will be a notice when Kernel 7 is safe to try?
Have a great day
dan