HP Pavillion Media Center m8020n audio add in?

HI, I have a
Media Center M8020n...
Product #: RX883AA-ABA07010#32#203211022006
running vista.
The sound has recently died, and I am trying to figure out what to do with it. I realize it's pretty out of date at this point, but everything still works, except for the audio. What I want to know, is which soundcards would be recommended for this computer? Also, I am wondering if the add in will work with my other inputs and outputs, or would those all be directly linked to the motherboard with Realtek, and therefore dead with the soundchip (D/Aconverter)?
I'm not really sure how this is supposed to work... Help?

All you have are old school pci slots; no pci-e. The issue is whether the onboard audio can be disabled in the BIOS. If so, any decent pci sound card should work. I have several of them myself. In recent years computers have gotten powerful enough that onboard audio is good enough to forego add-in sound cards even for gamers. The old rap was that gaming sound would take away cpu cycles needed to run the game where a hardware based sound card would take the load off the CPU. CPUs are strong enough now to carry any audio chores. So add-in sound cards are no used much any more but they are still available.
I cannot find the User Guide or anything else with information about the options in the BIOS so try tapping F10 and look in the BIOS for something like "onboard devices" or "peripherals" and look for audio and disable it. Now add a pci sound card and plug in anything you need into the sound card. You may need to go into the Control Panel sound settings and set the add-in card as default audio and capture device but otherwise it will do everything the onboard sound used to do, and better. 
http://www.amazon.com/Creative-SB0570L4-Sound-Blaster-Audigy/dp/B000LP0R3E/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=14...
Something like the above would work fine. 

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