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
    2020-12-11T14:16:57+00:00

    Thanks for your input. I meant waiting for the 20H2 update, not for the conexant driver. As stated above, with the complete registry settings I was able to stop the Windows HD Audio-driver to be "updated" to the old conexant driver, so I am on windows driver-only presently. That should be ok for the 20H2 update, I hope.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-11T16:12:52+00:00

    Tom380,

    I should have mentioned that I was able to manually update specifically to the latest 2H20 update, not just the 2004 update from May using the Microsoft direct link if you want to give that a go. And since you blocked the Conexant driver and are running the Microsoft HD Audio Driver I see no reason why it shouldn't work for you. It may be possible that you may not be "automatically offered" the 2H20 update not knowing the exact dynamics how MS targets a given system for updating. Point is I didn't want to wait and I had no problem  manually doing the update.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-12T16:29:41+00:00

    Thanks for encouraging me. I am finally in 20H2 after using MS audio-drivers i.o. Conexant!

    I did it after deselecting all autostarts from task-manager and after deselecting all non-MS-services from msconfig.

    Thereafter I used the media creation tool for upgrade "on this PC" as upgrade was not offered even after three days on MS-drivers.

    Everything worked fine.

    Nevertheless I think I stay with MS-drivers until anybody can convince me of advantages from Conexant-drivers.

    One more thing for anybody who's doing the same: after the upgrade, my "High definition audio device" (formerly Conexant) wasn't working until I installed the MS drivers again (it was listed under "other devices"). For that, you need to set the "DenyDeviceIDs"-value to "0". It took just a few seconds to install MS-drivers (same method as described some pages before), then I reset the value to "1" to prevent the system from installing Conexant drivers. No restart required.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-12T16:39:51+00:00

    Hi DisplayNameWasTaken,

    How about you and how thing goes in your side?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-12T19:42:42+00:00

    Hi DisplayNameWasTaken,

    How about you and how thing goes in your side?

    Going fine. Both Lenovo laptops (4 year old work IdeaPad and anemic 6+ year old Yoga 2) have been running fine for weeks after the upgrades.

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