I am an American living in Taiwan. Back in September, I bought a brand new Dell Inspiron 13z laptop. (Note: I don't think the 13z is available in the US market)
It doesn't look like there is even support for the 13z because the model is not listed in the support products page.
Anyways, here is the problem. From the very first day when I took the laptop home, during startup, this warning pops up which says "Failed to create Conexant Audio Factory, The SmartAudio will now exit".
I looked around on the Dell support site for a solution. I found this driver which says it fixes the error "- SmartAudio error message pop up after reboot and said "Failed to create Conexant Audio Factory. The SmartAudio will now exit": http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R306124&formatcnt=0&libid=0&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=461550
The driver is for the 14z laptop, but I figured it'd work for my 13z also. I installed it and sure enough it fixed the problem.
But yesterday, all of a sudden the problem came back from out of nowhere! It just started happening again for no reason.
I have attached a picture of the error message.
Please can someone help me?! I am extremely frustrated and desperate right now. 