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
    2020-10-28T20:30:41+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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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-31T16:43:28+00:00

    I have a LG 14Z980 laptop with Connexant audio. LG is pretty bad about releasing updated drivers in a timely fashion, so there's no direct path to get a new driver that will allow the update to 2004 or 20H2.

    However, after reading this thread, I was successful in manually installing the Lenovo driver  using the process mentioned on page 3. The device has changed names from "Connexant HD Audio" to "Connexant SmartAudio HD", but as far as I can tell all audio features work correctly. I was able to run Media Creation Tool after switching the driver and completed a successful upgrade to 20H2.

    I'd encourage anyone to try that method, and good luck! (I love that "Have Disk" is still how you manually select a driver file in Windows. Is that vestigial from Windows 95, or perhaps even earlier?)

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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2020-10-31T17:25:19+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.

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