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

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

1. Install Broadcom NB-290 driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Broadcom NB-290 driver. The archive contains version 5.6.0.3900 dated 2010-02-24 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 Service (UAC) is enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your computer 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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This driver is digitally signed.
File size of the driver: 133745 bytes (130.61 KB)
Driver rating 4.8 stars out of 10477 votes.
This driver is 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. How to use DriverMax to install Broadcom NB-290 driver

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. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~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 driver updates. Search the list until you find the Broadcom NB-290 driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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