Thanks so much for you reply. I just have one request for clarification. You said you removed the driver (uninstalled the device/delete driver) but followed with "and with the driver installed". Did you mean "uninstalled"?
Woody
As i have understood from his comment:
He said he tried to block the Conexant driver auto installation by windows update through registry blocking method by adding some registry value.
But that didnt worked (meaning the drivers got installed eventually despite blocking through windows registry)
Then he removed the registry key that he added to block the auto install of the drivers. Then let the drivers got installed by windows update. And then with the drivers installed upgraded to version 2004, and it seem to work for him without any issue so far.
Hope you did got it now. Cheers.