Ubuntu 20.04: No sound

[Chris]

On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 15:20 +0100, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 15:03, Chris <chris.pollock1948 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
> The EXE for my Dell desktop was a Windows .EXE file. I did try
> FreeDos on my hard drive and got nowhere with it.
> 
> How did you create the FreeDOS USB stick? Very keen to know :)
> 
> I also tried https://www.hirensbootcd.org/ but when I ran the updater
> .EXE, it complained about a missing MFC DLL.
> 
To be honest I can't remember how I did it as it was about 5yrs ago
when I did. Looking at the thumbdrive I have three files. Command.com,
kernel.sys and the new BIOS. This link may help

https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/sln171755/update-the-dell-bios-in-a-linux-or-ubuntu-environment?lang=en

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Chris
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