Ubuntu 20.04: No sound

[Chris]

On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 12:33 +0100, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi Liam,
> 
> On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 12:20, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > Don't be a hero. Keep Windows around, even if just for flashing
> > your
> > firmware. It's not being a coward: it's being pragmatic.
> > 
> > And if 3rd party external kit needs Windows, well, yes, you're
> > right
> > -- don't buy it. :-(
> 
> I needed to flash the BIOS on a Dell desktop PC not so long ago. In
> the end I used my only Windows device - a netbook - to create a USB
> flash drive based Windows 10 installer media. Then I installed
> Windows 10 on the desktop PC. Then I ran the Dell provided programme
> to flash the BIOS. It solved the issue (not recognising all of 4 x 1
> GiB of recently upgraded memory. Then I wiped the system and
> reinstalled Linux.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> 
> Ian
> 
All I did to to flash the BIOS on my Dell Optiplex 780 was to install
FreeDOS on a USB stick along with the updated BIOS and boot into it.
Worked like a charm.

-- 
Chris
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