Unable to hear sounds. Audio not working

Hi, figure 1 is what I see when I switch on the PC. If I click on Windows Boot Manager, it runs to fig. 2 (Preparing for automatic recovery), then it runs to fig. 3 Automatic Recovery: Unable to restore your PC (where I can choose between "Shut Down" or "Advanced Options") and fog. 4 "Choose an option", but in practice I can only turn it off because all the others lead to nothing (even if I wanted to restore the Win OS, it gives me an error and I can't continue something different than turn off)




Yes, that is the GRUB Screen. I mean, when You go in the BIOS. There You should find a Boot Menu or Boot Order. When You there choose Windows to start, do You get the same like shown here on the Pictures?

Yes, no chace to start Windows. By the way I totally deleted Windows, so now I have just Zorin and when I switch on the PC, I see this. By the way, still no sound at all. I suppose the problem is in Zorin, as I have no Windows anymore.

Yes, the GRUB Screen is still active. You can disable it. In Zorin open the Terminal and type sudo nano /etc/default/grub and there look for the Line GRUB_TIMEOUT and change it to GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 and then press ctrl+o to save the Change, Enter to confirm and ctrl+x to exit. Back in the normal Terminal Overview type sudo update-grub to make affect the Change.

Because of Your Audio ... Please type in the Terminal sudo lshw -C multimedia and post the Output here.

This is going to sound absolutely berserk ...

If you have a Windows startup disc - pop that in and load into the installer but do not install anything at all... Once you're greeted by the M$ hello we're about to install junk that costs money bla bla bla - ignore all options and just 'shut down'...

You can definitely remove the Win installer from grub though - run:

sudo os-prober

then:

sudo update-grub

Then ....... reboot and see if that goes away lol if not you can just delete the entry out of grub manually but, that should see there's no more Win install and take it out of grub!

Thanks, I've done and now GRUB_TIMEOUT is saved in 0 (zero) and not anymore in 10 as before. Here is what appears with udo lshw -C multimedia.

You could try this:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1225463/18-04-no-sound-intel-sound-card-snd-hda-intel-not-working

Thanks...followed that link, but still no audio at all.

I have deleted Win from the grub and from everywhere...but still no audio.

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Do you have a pair of headphones you can use to test if there's audio out from the 3.5mm port - if available?

Also.. take a look in 'alsamixer':

That's from my iMac late 2015 - no audio unless I switch to the PCH card with F6:

Then, I get all kinds of fun:

But, the only way to change volume is to use my arrow keys and raise / lower PCM level.. Apparently this sound card didn't get any attention lol.. But, works perfectly with a set of cheap desktop speakers plugged into the headphone port! So, I just use that and forgot about fiddling with the internal speakers..

Also... ouch:

According to that, and some other searches - you may or may not get it working with some drivers.. and this was the linked driver that worked for Debian 12: