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 ...