Driver for Broadcom NB-290 - downloading and installing it

NB-290 is a Bluetooth hardware device. The developer of this driver was Broadcom. USB/VID_0B05&Pid_178A is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Broadcom NB-290 driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Broadcom NB-290 driver. The archive contains version 12.0.0.4051 dated 2012-11-08 of the driver.
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3. Run 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. 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 shutdown and 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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This driver is not digitally signed.

This driver was rated with an average of 3.2 stars by 82371 users.

2. Using DriverMax to install Broadcom NB-290 driver

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 take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Broadcom NB-290 driver. Click on Update.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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