Broadcom BCM43142 Bluetooth 4.0 HS USB Device - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

BCM43142 Bluetooth 4.0 HS USB Device is a Bluetooth device. This driver was developed by Broadcom. USB/VID_0A5C&PID_21D8 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Broadcom BCM43142 Bluetooth 4.0 HS USB Device - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Broadcom BCM43142 Bluetooth 4.0 HS USB Device driver. The archive contains version 12.0.0.8048 dated 2013-10-21 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is running please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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Broadcom applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 3944074 bytes (3.76 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.1 stars out of 67808 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. How to use DriverMax to install Broadcom BCM43142 Bluetooth 4.0 HS USB Device driver

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Broadcom BCM43142 Bluetooth 4.0 HS USB Device driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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