I know it has been asked a few times already, but the solutions I found don’t seem to work. A few months ago my computer (ThinkPad T14 Gen 2, running Ubuntu 24.04 iirc) crashed or something when booting and then nothing was the same. I had no more sound, Bluetooth and microphone. Through reinstalling stuff I managed to get the Bluetooth and sound back. Today, in an attempt to fix this, I clean reinstalled the whole OS, which did nothing.
I then saw a solution online saying to update the BIOS. I went to the webpage here where I got the latest version (1.69) of the BIOS. Then I flashed it on a fat32 USB thumb drive, booted and tried installing it, but to no avail. The BIOS update failed, and I got this error message: “The process does not recognize this system”. I tried to find a solution, on this page on which someone recommended using a few tweaks to get it on fat16. I tried again, but it was to no avail.
I think updating my BIOS is really supposed to fix the problem, but I don’t seem to be able to update it. I don’t understand why as I’m not very used to doing this.
Edit: I forgot to add that after some tweaks I managed to get sound back, which points to it being a software problem for this part, same for the bluetooth. I also tried using an external microphone and it still doesn’t work, no microphone is working, which definitely points to a software problem imo.
Edit 2: I managed to get the right version for the BIOS update iso but what happens is the update starts, then it asks me to restart the computer and when I do I just see the “failed to read ME firmware…” message, which seems to cancel the update as it never finishes. I am currently stuck there.
Edit 3: It might not be very clear but the computer itself boots ON UBUNTU and I now still have sound and bluetooth, I’ve had both for several months and there is no issue with it whatsoever. I can use my computer ALMOST normally now except for these issues.
