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    How to completely remove the awful Conexant Audio Drivers and Smart Audio HD and stop them...


    I have 2 Lenovo laptops both running Windows 10 with all the latest updates.

    I am having a serious problem (as are many other people I'm sure) with the terrible Conexant Audio Drivers and Smart Audio HD,

    In short they make the audio output sound awful and don't distinguish between the on-board speakers and any external speakers or headphones plugged in to the audio jack.

    It also disables all of the sound enhancements bass boost, loudness equaliser etc, and makes music virtually unlistenable due to the terrible tinny sound produced.

    The ridiculous thing is that the Microsoft divers work perfectly distinguishing between the on-board speakers and the jack and producing much better sound as well as making all the enhancements work.

    The problem is that if I rollback the Conexant drivers to the Microsoft ones or uninstall the Conexant ones they automatically reinstall,

    I have even deleted all the Conexant program files and registry entries and disabled the scheduled tasks and start up programs.

    I have followed all the advice from numerous online forums including the official Microsoft and Lenovo advice but I simply cannot stop the Conexant drivers reinstalling and making the sound awful again.

    This is obviously an issue which other people are experiencing and I can't understand why Microsoft hasnt addressed it yet, or why the Conexant software is there in the first place.

    I have scoured my pc's and deleted every Conexant file I can find in the registry and all program files but the damn thing is like a virus that can't be killed, surely this can be solved with a simple update, come on Microsoft this is not good enough sort it out

    :)
     
    Iantastic, Jan 6, 2019
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  2. Conexant Smart Audio HD Problem with every Windows 10 build

    I have a problem with dolby digital audio ( Of course complete audio sometimes) in headphones. in resent build 11099 headphone audio completely gone. Without headphone working fine.. and my headphones are very fine.. I think problem with latest Conexant
    Smart Audio HD Drivers or windows 10 builds... where can i download conexant old drivers, i can't find anywhere...
     
    ARReddy_Wolverine, Jan 6, 2019
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  3. Conexant Smart Audio Windows 10 issue

    I just installed (fresh) Windows 10 and now I am having issues with my Audio Driver, Conexant. Every time I connect my external speakers to the headphone jack, I do hear sounds and play media. But my issue occurs while the windows boots up with the external
    speakers connected.

    Just after booting, at the desktop the smart audio fails to initialize and this message pops.

    failed to initialize smartaudio the application will now exit

    Before you ask me to do the initial troubleshooting steps, I will list all the things what I have done so far.

    • Uninstalled and reinstalled conexant audio drivers.
    • Used the troubleshoot sound problems and found no issues.
    • Used Device Manager to disable other (Nvidia HD audio) audio devices, but the issue occurred.
    • In the same step, I installed the drivers through Microsoft. Device works perfectly, but smartaudio is gone completely.
    Issue 1

    Why smartaudio fails to initialize? How to fix that?

    Issue 2

    In the enhancements tab, I don't see 'Loudness Equalization' 'Room Correction' and other known enhancements. I see only these:


    How to completely remove the awful Conexant Audio Drivers and Smart Audio HD and stop them... 91e00c7e-826f-40b3-9b39-1734b00f0c0b.png


    How to enable them? Are those only available for HD audio?

    More Details:

    OS - Windows 10 Pro x64Smart Audio Driver Version - 8.66.16.52

    Smart Audio Software Version - 6.0.250.0

    HD Audio API Version - 1.91.0.0
     
    Super Saiyan, Jan 6, 2019
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  4. How to completely remove the awful Conexant Audio Drivers and Smart Audio HD and stop them...

    Conexant Smart Audio HD | Windows 10

    Well, you want your Conexant smart audio work? There is only one method, that gonna lose all the functionality of the Smart Audio Program...But it will keep the all the Conexant drivers.

    Its easy, Right click on the speaker icon. Go to playback devices, right click the smart audio one. Click on properties and go to enhancements section and tick "disable all enhancements"

    Good Luck!
     
    FirasBajjar, Jan 6, 2019
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