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Get the message of "Failed to initialize SmartAudio. The application will exit" message keeps coming up after upgrade to windows 10 version 1909. Click OK and the message re-appears in less than a minute, again.
I have looked for several ways to get this message to stop coming up. I have tried several things to get this message to stop showing up and have not been successful.
Anyone have any ideas?
Amy
Outagamie County
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Uninstall and reinstall Conexant SmartAudio HD Driver to fix the issue.
Conexant SmartAudio HD Driver is not listed in device manager or programs and features. Is there a way to manually uninstall?
Have you checked Control Panel?
I shall suggest you to uninstall audio driver and it's application from Device Manager > Reboot > Reinstall audio driver.
I have uninstalled the Synaptics HD Audio driver before but not the Intel(R) Display Audio. This time uninstalled (removed software from device too) both, rebooted, and the message came back up. The Sound, video and game controllers section in Device Manager has both Intel and Synaptics in it. The Audio inputs and outputs section in Device Manager has all four of the devices (headphones, speakers, and 2 monitor speakers.
The big thing is that i cannot get this message to go away.
Amy
I have also removed all that I could from the registry for "SmartAudio" and the message still came up.
ran windows updates several times. HP updates for the drivers and hardware.
Not sure what else I can do but reimage.
Amy
Can you go for a clean boot?
Clean boot allowed me to find two services CxAudioSvc and CxUIUSvc Services that were running. I disabled these services and the error message is no longer there. I checked and Windows Audio Service is still there. I had someone listen and we tested the audio, it worked.
I am going to leave the two services disabled for now. THANKS EVERYONE!!
No sure if that was tried, but I have to wait to do it. I will let you know if that helps. ab
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if there are any updates, welcome to share here!
Best Regards,
Clean boot worked for the message to NOT come up.
Started the process to see if I could find the culprit. I did find the item(s). Services CxAudioSvc Service and CxUIUSvc Service. If these services are started, the error comes up. If these services are disabled, no error.
HP Computer has Synaptics HD Audio. What I need to know is this: are these services needed to be able to get the sound on the computer and thus have to be running?
Amy