Hey all, First time poster here. For those of you with short attention spans, there's a sumary at the bottom; feel free to skip ahead. I've been trying to solve this issue for an entire day. Okay, well... 4 hours. It feels like forever, though. Anyway, here's the deal: I just upgraded to Vista Home Premium. Apparently the upgrade advisor ...

I have been trying to get my system to upmix stereo to 5.1 so I get sound out of the rear speakers when I play stereo material. At first I just thought that this was a driver/configuration problem, but now I am wondering whether it is in fact a hardware problem. I have a Shuttle XPC SD37P2 with Realtek ALC882 high definition audio codec on ...

If you want to run Vista but are unsure as to whether your software and hardware will work, please download and run the Upgrade Advisor. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradeadvisor.mspx It will scan your current setup and tell you if you are likely to have any problems with what you have.  Note ...