Intel Corporation Intel R 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Intel R 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller is a hdc hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Intel Corporation. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_1E02&CC_0106; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Intel Corporation Intel R 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Intel Corporation Intel R 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller driver. The archive contains version 13.0.0.1072 dated 2013-11-01 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 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 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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This driver was not digitally signed.

This driver received an average rating of 3.3 stars out of 71721 votes.

2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Intel Corporation Intel R 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Start DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~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. Search the list until you find the Intel Corporation Intel R 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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