C-Media C-Media AC97 Audio Device how to download and install the driver

C-Media AC97 Audio Device is a MEDIA device. This driver was developed by C-Media. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_24C5&SUBSYS_87161565; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Install C-Media C-Media AC97 Audio Device driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the C-Media C-Media AC97 Audio Device driver. The archive contains version 5.12.01.0008 dated 2005-05-11 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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C-Media applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 3870567 bytes (3.69 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.4 stars out of 15601 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with 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. Using DriverMax to install C-Media C-Media AC97 Audio Device driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the C-Media C-Media AC97 Audio Device driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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