No sound on HDMI

I bought MSI N9500GT graphic card and installed it on PCI-E of my HP Pavilion a6242n desktop PC.
I connected SPDIF cable from graphic card to SPDIF out header in the motherboard for audio stream. It delivered great HD picture on my LCD TV but no sound. Here is what I've tried so far.
1. SPDIF cable connection: The new graphic card comes with a SPDIF cable. 2-pin connector for the graphic card and two separate cables on the other end (orange for SPDIF and black for GND) for motherboard SPDIF out header. My SPDIF out header has 3 pin. So, I put orange cable in the middle pin and put black cable to the left pin (I still don't know if it's right connection although I tried all possible combination @ SPDIF out header)
2. I have changed BIOS setup for Audio Codec from "AUTO" to "Enable"
3. I ran the Hardware Diagnostic Test and removed / re-installed / updated Realtek audio driver
4. Uninstalled Nvidia's latest graphic driver and installed outdated version
The only thing I couldn't figure out is this;
In the "playback device", it shows only two devices, one is "Speaker, Realtek HD Audio" and the other one is "Realtek Digital Output, Realtek HD Audio". It doesn't list "Realtek HDMI output" needed for selection. I suspect this is the main cause for no sound issue.
Do I need to change any setting to have "Realtek HDMI output" with HDTV symbol as shown in the HP Solve a Problem section ?

I am experiencing the same issue on both p6367c and p6340f computers both with the same motherboard, Eureka 3-GL8 and both running Windows 7 64bit Home Premium. The graphics card I installed in both is an EVGA GeForce GTS 250, part number 01G-P3-1145-TR. For HDMI sound the GTS 250 requires a 2-pin input (SPDIF and GND) from the SPDIF_OUT2 3-pin header on the motherboard. The SPDIF_OUT1 header on the motherboard is used by the digital coax out jack which is active and working. At the SPDIF_OUT2 socket on the motherboard, the center pin is the SPDIF signal and I measured the other two pins with a voltmeter to ensure I had the correct pin for GND. WIth these pins correctly connected to the graphics card there is still no sound through the HDMI connection.
There is no option to select HDMI or SPDIF in control panel sound playback devices and the realtek driver is up-to-date. Also in the NVIDIA control panel HDMI with sound enabled is selected. I suspect the SPDIF_OUT2 is turned off or disabled and one may have to turn off SPDIF_OUT1 in favor of SPDIF_OUT2 for this to work but I have no idea how to do that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

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installed alsa-oss (probably irrelevant)
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