Intel Intel R ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Intel R ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller is a hdc device. This Windows driver was developed by Intel. PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_2681&CC_0106 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Intel Intel R ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Intel Intel R ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller driver. The archive contains version 10.1.5.1001 released on 2011-02-18 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 enabled please confirm the installation 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 quite 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 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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Intel applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 257195 bytes (251.17 KB)
Driver rating 4.6 stars out of 34339 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Installing the Intel Intel R ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller 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 using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and press 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 detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Intel Intel R ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller driver. Click on Update.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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