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 hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by C-Media. The hardware id of this driver is HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_434D&DEV_4980&SUBSYS_98811019; this string has to match your hardware.

1. 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 dated 2005-05-12 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is enabled please confirm the installation 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 scan your PC 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: 3769122 bytes (3.59 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.8 stars out of 20387 votes.
This driver was released for 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 most important 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 with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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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 High Definition Audio Device driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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