Comment 8 for bug 372796

From this forum I found the following

options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1

which worked for several others and also for me, sort of:

Sound is very week, almost inaudible.
Before I continue, I want to re-install as 64-bit. I used 32-bit only because I thought maybe that has more of a chance.

Thank you very much for your efforts; it was very useful to realize that the error occurred because the driver was not even initialized.