C-Media C-Media High Definition Audio Device - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

C-Media High Definition Audio Device is a MEDIA device. The developer of this driver was C-Media. HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_434D&DEV_4980&SUBSYS_00000001 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install C-Media C-Media High Definition Audio Device driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the C-Media C-Media High Definition Audio Device driver. The archive contains version 5.12.01.0008 released on 2004-09-08 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 started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer 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.
Driver file size: 3341989 bytes (3.19 MB)
Driver rating 4.4 stars out of 56397 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. Installing the C-Media C-Media High Definition Audio Device driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

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