Can't start Dolby Audio driver after upgrading to Windows 8.1

Anonymous
2013-10-18T07:27:19+00:00

Lenovo U410 wirh Windows 8 pre-installed.

Upgrade to 8.1 went flawlessly, but every time I re-start or boot up the machine I get this:

I've uninstalled and re-installed Dolby Home Theater, done an extensive local and web search about this.

There appears to be NO mention on my machine anywhere for a Dolby Audio Driver" or anything that uses it.

I've been on the Lenovo forum and there's a thread there that says to disable driver signature, which I've done to no effect.

I still get this message.

Can anyone throw any light on this?

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Anonymous
2013-10-28T16:20:59+00:00

Hi Everyone!!

I did something to my laptop and it worked!!! After messing around the fix was simple!

Of course make sure your computer has all the windows updates. I don't know if that's gonna be a contributing factor, but it was part of my methods.

After that go into your "D Drive" which is found under "My computer" --> "Drivers" -->"Audio"

Once you're in the audio folder, you're gonna scroll down, you will see a computer icon that says "setup" click on that. Once you do that you will follow the instructions. It seems by doing this it updates the conextant audio driver. I don't know why it didn't update in the device manager as others have suggested. But after I did this, I checked to make sure it was fixed

You can see if it was fixed by:

Going into your control panel and clicking the Dolby theater which can be found in the sounds, games, etc. --> you should see the actual program pop up instead of the error message!

I am so glad I finally fixed this! If this helps you, please label it as the answer so everyone else can fix theirs too! It seems to be a major issue

Have an "error" free day!

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Anonymous
2014-02-04T00:06:17+00:00

Hi,

Lenovo has updated the Conexant Audio Drivers for Windows 8.1 to correct this error.  You can download the updated drivers for your device at http://support.lenovo.com/en\_US/downloads/default.page.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-10-24T16:14:11+00:00

    I located an easier solution, as I have had this issue since upgrading to 8.1. Following downloading Dolby Home Theater v4, I finally figured out that if I just needed to go to my Lenova D: drive\drivers and reloaded the Dolby Audio program, the issue was resloved.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-10-22T22:29:35+00:00

    stephen

    mine is the same as you i get the repair or remove after trying the steps 

    henry

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-10-22T20:02:51+00:00

    Hi,

    I found this after I updated my windows 8 to 8.1 and when I attempted it, I ran into some problems..

    I was able to uninstall the conexant smart aduio

    however when I click on action, the only option is "Scan for hardware changes"

    I don't hvae anything that says "scan for new hardware"... now with my conexant smart audio uninstal, I don't know how to reinstall it..

    Tried to look it up in the "help" of the device manager and it says my GUI shell is disabled.. I don't know what that is, all I did was update my windows 8 pc and there's problems!

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