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. The developer of this driver was C-Media. The hardware id of this driver is HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_434D&DEV_4980&SUBSYS_B02C144D; this string has to match your hardware.

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

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 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 accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC 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. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed.
The file size of this driver is 3769122 bytes (3.59 MB)
Driver rating 4 stars out of 21689 votes.
This driver will work 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 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 follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and click 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 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 it, you installed your first driver!
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