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
    2020-11-01T01:51:25+00:00

    It just did it.  Amazing.  Thank you so much.

    You see , happy for you. And Good luck

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-31T21:09:15+00:00

    Don't worry, open your post,  I will show you how to do it.

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2020-10-16T07:44:30+00:00

    My Toshiba Satellite has a dual use 3.5mm socket. It can be used as a line input or a headphone output. I assume the Conexant driver controls this function. Has anyone noticed if this functionality  still works after forcing the update?

    I'm using an Asus Vivobook S510UAR that is like 3 years old now. I didn't force the win 10 v 2004 update. What I did was:

    1. Uninstalled Conexant audio driver from the "Device Manager" by Rollback option (under the property option within the said driver, there's a tab that says "Drivers" and down below is an option "Rollback driver". Choosing this option will ask you why you do you want to roll back? There's an option that says, "My device doesn't work with this driver.", choose this and click ok. Windows will restore Microsoft Generic audio driver.
    2. Opened CMD with admin level and ran the command "pnputil.exe /e > C:\drivers.txt". This will generate all the drivers on your system and will save it on C:\drivers.txt file.
    3. Opened the drivers.txt file and searched for Conexant. The driver was named as something like "oemNN.inf", where NN is a numeric value like 12, 13, or 45. Mine was oem52.inf.
    4. Ran another command "pnputil.exe /d oemNN.inf" (here NN is the number that is associated with your Conexant driver found on the drivers.txt file). This removed/uninstalled the Conexant drivers and its files from the windows installation.
    5. Then I searched for any files named "uci64a" (the file names will be something like e.g. uci64a96.dll through uci64a231.dll) within "C:\Windows" folder and deleted all the files. This will remove all traces of Conexant drivers.

    Note: These files are the primary Incompatible files that are listed on the Microsoft official Win 10 version 2004 known issues documentation file. link to the file is here: Microsoft Windows 10 2004 Known Issues 

    1. The search will include a folder called "Rollback" within Windows > System32 folder. Remove the directory.
    2. Then from the start menu searched for "Services" and opened. There's a couple of services that correspond to the Conexant drivers that I need to Stop and Disable ( from Startup type dropdown) permanently. One such service is named "CxUIUSvc".

    I also Stopped and Disabled a service called "iceSoundSomethng"(can't remember it now. it is associated with Conexant driver).

    (From the Description column look for any services associated with Conexant driver and Stop and Disable them from their properties. You can search for those files within the Windows directory. "You will find the file path from their Properties panel under "Path to executable" from within the Services.)

    1. Restarted my PC.
    2. After 2 days Microsoft offered me the Update. 
    3. Installed the update.
    4. Although after upgrading to 2004 Microsoft forcefully updated the audio driver again to Conexant drivers from the Microsoft update.
    5. Then repeat steps 1 to 8 again. 
    6. So far everything is working well.
    7. No headphone connection issue. Everything working just fine.

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