Zorin 17.3 does not detect audio card on HP x360 Spectre

I've seen posts about same soundcard, and the common approach to solve it is to use this command:

sudo alsa force-reload

There are additional potential solutions listed here:

The other issue is that ALSA is picking up HDMI in your audio card details and so Pulse Audio will be stuck deciding which card to use. To prevent this you need to create a sound.blacklist.conf - refer to my tutorial on how to do this:

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