Updating to Windows 10 Version 2004/Conexant Drivers

Anonymous
2020-06-12T18:05:40+00:00

So what do people with computers with Conexant drivers do? Windows Update says update drivers but there are none acceptable, it also says Microsoft is working on a fix ? So what do we do? If there are compatible drivers for devices using Conexant Audio where are they, how do we get them and install or replace them (I have tried everything to no avail). When does MS expect a fix ? Are persons with Conexant audio drivers computers at end of life ? Does anybody care ?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-31T20:12:34+00:00

    Interesting.  I have a Lenovo ideapad and the installed driver IS Lenovo's Connexant Smartaudio HD, and I cannot get past the "May 2020 feature update is not ready" message :(

    Hi Wilf21,

    I will say open your own post then I will show you, how to force 20H2 update on your Lenovo ideapad. Please if you do it copy and paste the url here. then people with the same device can follow us.

    OK.  How may I do that, thanks?  I haven't got 2004, though, let alone 20H2

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-31T16:52:13+00:00

    Interesting.  I have a Lenovo ideapad and the installed driver IS Lenovo's Connexant Smartaudio HD, and I cannot get past the "May 2020 feature update is not ready" message :(

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-29T13:18:03+00:00

    thanks for the upvotes on the feedback hub, we have 27 upvotes now ! woop woop! keep them coming.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-28T20:30:41+00:00

    Okay, I should have said 'fixed', not 'resolved'.  The people here are super bright at finding ways around this problem.

    I still don't think that this will be 'properly fixed', i.e. a software change in the conexant driver.  The driver now belongs to another company that probably doesn't want to invest time to fix old things.  This was discovered in May and is still unresolved.  It is listed as an issue with the 20H2 update as well.  At some point MSFT will have to do something.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-10-28T19:01:02+00:00

    Hey Everyone,

    I wanted to tell all of you that I had the same problem with my Asus GL552VX, but I managed to solve it.

    The blocker is mainly the Conexant audio driver, as there is no update yet in most of the laptots... but for Lenovo laptops.

    What I did is download the Lenovo driver from here, Instead of installing it using the setup wizard, I selected the option "Extract only".

    After extracting the package, I went to the device manager, selected Conexant SmartAudio HD, clicked on Properties and in the driver tab, I clicked in the update driver button.

    In that wizard, you need to select to search the driver in your disk and later go to "choose from a list of drivers in my computer"...

    Choose have disk (or use disk, I don't remember the exact english text), and go to the directory where you extracted the driver previously (within that directory you will need to navigate to WIN\AUDIO\20202908.1013083\x64), make sure to untick the show compatible hardware option.

    This driver might tell you that is not signed or validated for your device, you can ignore that warning and go forward.

    This driver is updated with versions not affected by the bug that MS states in his page for 2004 update, so, if the driver works fine (in my case worked like a charm), this will unlock your computer for 2004 update.

    If you have any issue with the audio, like it not working or something else, you can always return to the previous driver version through the device manager.

    What you can do later if windows update still does not offer the update is go to this page and download the MS update assistant, which will override Windows update.

    This procedure worked perfectly for me and now I have Windows 10 2004 installed for a week now.

    Hope this works for you guys as well...

    Cheers

    Hi, i have almost the same notebook (gl 552vw). Did you receive the update from Windows Update or did you install it manually with the update assistant?

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