Realtek ALC 888 and Fraps no stereo mix. Anyone had this problem and resolved it?

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

I have an HP Media Center a1600n using Win XP Pro SP2. Only things added to it is a SATA II 750 GB WD HD, memory swapped out for 3 GB DDR2 PC2 5300 (667 MHz), and a Radeon HD 4670 1GB DDR2 PCI-Express video card.

I use Fraps at times, which since I bought this PC will not recognize Realtek HD Audio as the sound input. Instead all I have available is the Line In/Mic In. After much research I discovered this is because it relies on the stereo mix feature to be able to adjust the recording input to Realtek instead of Line In/Mic In.

I have tried removing and reinstalling the drivers from HP, Realtek, and even an ALC888 driver from Dell. All with no luck. The kicker is this, I have another HP machine, an a1750e which is identical to mine except it has a 2.5 Ghz cpu instead of a 2 Ghz, in another room that I installed everything on using the dell driver and everything works perfectly in Fraps and detects the stereo mix in the Realtek Audio Manager.

I have searched through multiple forums including tomshardware and fraps, aswell as many searches from yahoo search engine and yes even google.

Anyone had issues with this that has resolved it please let me know how. I really would like to unplug this cable from my side speaker out to my line in jack and have this setup properly.