Intel R Corporation Intel R Smart Sound Technology Intel R SST Audio Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Intel R Smart Sound Technology Intel R SST Audio Controller is a Chipset hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Intel R Corporation. PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_A170&CC_0401 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Intel R Corporation Intel R Smart Sound Technology Intel R SST Audio Controller driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Intel R Corporation Intel R Smart Sound Technology Intel R SST Audio Controller driver. The archive contains version 8.20.0.968 released on 2016-08-26 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) 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 installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation 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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Intel R Corporation applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 1874479 bytes (1.79 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 71687 votes.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• 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 R Corporation Intel R Smart Sound Technology Intel R SST Audio Controller 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, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Search the list until you find the Intel R Corporation Intel R Smart Sound Technology Intel R SST Audio Controller driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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