5.1 surround sound on s5160f with Nvidia and Realtek cards

product_name : HP Pavilion Slimline s5160f Desktop PC
operating system : Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic 64
The HP guy told me to load this driver
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=pv-69866-1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&...
it didnt' work.
My audio is coming out through the HDMI cable which is from the NVIDIA card. I tried other solutions, including updating the NVIDIA drivers for similar problems. Someone suggested going though SPDIF, but VLC just has an option to use SPDIF when availble, you can't exclusively set it.
How do I get 5.1 surround sound sent through the HDMI connection? I've used VLC and the builtin Blu-Ray player software and I'm running out of ideas.

Is there a way to identify which computer outputs support 5.1 sound? It is a media center PC, but I can't find that information anywhere.

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