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
    2020-10-18T19:02:15+00:00

    As a closing anecdote, this is the second time I've used these forums to try to solve an annoying MS problem.  The first one, with a bogus message when starting up MS Office, was never officially fixed by MS, or at least they never claimed they did.  After 5 months of multiple Win10 and MS Office software updates, the problem just quietly went away.  It was really annoying that there was no announced solution to it, only stuff like what has been posted in this thread.

    What worries me about this Conexant problem is that the above problem was with Win10 running MS Office 2019 or 365, products actively supported by MS.  The Conexant driver, now apparently owned by Synaptics, could have fallen into digital no mans land.  There may never be a supported solution for an old driver.  I can only hope that Synaptics will do the right thing for the next Windows version for the driver they own, otherwise we'll all be talking again :-)

    Good luck to all.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-18T17:56:11+00:00

    There is version 8.66.95.69 available on

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-2004#447msgdesc

    When updating my Asus UX305F to this one, 2004 will still not beeing installed.

    ;-(

    Did someone else tried this one?

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-18T12:35:55+00:00

    hiya

    i think i had some on the simplest process, by luck.

    1. installed Lenovo's driver, before migration, worked like a charm and different features too ,you might like them
    2. launched the update assistant, installed 2004 without an issue, all perfect
    3. pc rebooted and for some magic reason it had the old driver (original)
    4. everything works perfect

    if anyone needs the Lenovo's drivers you need to lookup for this one Conexant Audio Drivers from Lenovo - r09aa24w from https://support.lenovo.com/lu/en/downloads/ds119072

    let me know if you need any help with installing it, instructions are in a post a bit earlier by sycrJohnny's post on August 30, 2020

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-18T09:32:53+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".

    This is spanish?

    You can choose english:

    https://support.lenovo.com/bo/en/downloads/ds119072

    This is version 8.66.89.00 for chdrt64.sys

    which is infected too according to:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-2004#447msgdesc

    There is version 8.66.95.69 available on

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-2004#447msgdesc

    When updating my Asus UX305F to this one, 2004 will still not beeing installed.

    ;-(

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-10-18T04:31:21+00:00

    I am with Asus VivoBook K510UQ

    After blocking Conexant drivers and getting offered 2004 update automatically, I unblocked the audio device to allow audio drivers to be updated. Windows downloaded the Conexant drivers and installed them. No issues. However I didn't want to take any risks. So I removed the Conexant drivers, and blocked them again from installing. 

    Now I am just using the Microsoft provided HighDefinition Audio Drivers which came with 2004 update. Also I don't want any next update to be incompatible because of the useless Conexant one. I hear that the October update might get released soon 🙂

    I did exactly the same.

    After updating to 2004 windows installed the Conexant dricers anyway. Then I removed the drivers but the next day windows again updated conexant drivers. 

    Then again I removed the driver (for the 3rd time after updating to 2004) and paused windows update to prevent installing the driver through windows update.

    The the most bizzare thing happened. Despite windows update being paused the friggin conexant driver got updated anyway.

    I mean how can it be possibe? Why would microsoft flagged this driver as incompatible only to relentlessly push it to customers afterward?

    Then again I removed the drivers, but this time placed a registry blocker to block any further attempt to install this driver again. Now have to see if windows again tries to install and succeeds or not. 

    I'm not taking any chance for again being blockd from future upgrade. I am more than happy with the microsoft drivers.

    Also I didn't faced any BSOD issue so far.

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