replacing sound card

[livesfreely]

I have an HP Pavilliion 9680C. It has a riptide audio card. The sound card is in combination with the conexant 56k modem. I want to upgrade to win XP. For that I need to change the sound card.

1) Will having a separate sound card and modem work?

2) If it does, then...how do i decide which sound card to replace it with? I'd like something average and cheap.

Any advice will be appreciated. thank you

 

[rclarke250]

The riptide will work in xp,early on you had to use the 2000 drivers in xp,but there are drivers available,search riptide drivers on google. most point to hp web,or driversguide.com.