Intel Corporation Intel R 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Intel R 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller is a hdc hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Intel Corporation. PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_9C03&CC_0106 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Manually install Intel Corporation Intel R 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Intel Corporation Intel R 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller driver. The archive contains version 12.8.0.1016 released on 2013-08-01 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is running 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 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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This driver is not digitally signed.

This driver received an average rating of 3.3 stars out of 98474 votes.

2. How to use DriverMax to install Intel Corporation Intel R 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller driver

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 can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open 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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Intel Corporation Intel R 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller driver. Click on Update.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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