Broadcom NB-290 - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

NB-290 is a Bluetooth for Windows hardware device. The developer of this driver was Broadcom. The hardware id of this driver is USB/VID_0B05&PID_178A; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install Broadcom NB-290 driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Broadcom NB-290 driver. The archive contains version 5.5.0.7600 dated 2009-07-08 of the driver.
2.  
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.
4.  
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 computer and will install the right driver.
6.  
7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
8.  

This driver is digitally signed by the manufacturer.
File size of the driver: 129938 bytes (126.89 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 5 stars out of 22103 votes.
This driver was released for 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 Broadcom NB-290 driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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. 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.
2.  
3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Broadcom NB-290 driver. Click on Update.
4.  
5. Finished installing the driver!
6.