I'm out of warranty with my Compaq laptop and my sound card is fried, can I still send it back to them so they fix it and how much roughly would it cost?So Andrew D, it'll cost me $5000 to get a new sound card? Right... bigyahbob696, thanks, I seriously have always wondered what that thing that pops out is.Good news though, after going about 3 months without sound I downloaded the driver again and my speakers are working. (Silly me should have done it earlier!)