National Instruments NI PXIe-7861 - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

NI PXIe-7861 is a NI RIO Devices hardware device. This driver was developed by National Instruments. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_1093&DEV_C4C4&SUBSYS_79AA1093; this string has to match your hardware.

1. National Instruments NI PXIe-7861 driver - how to install it manually

1. Download the setup file for National Instruments NI PXIe-7861 driver from the link below. This download link is for the driver version 18.0.0.49152 dated 2018-03-16.
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3. Start the driver installation file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which should be pretty straightforward. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Shutdown and restart your computer and enjoy the updated driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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National Instruments applied a digital signature to this driver.
File size of the driver: 152475 bytes (148.90 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4 stars by 50216 users.
This driver will work 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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install National Instruments NI PXIe-7861 driver

The 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 follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the National Instruments NI PXIe-7861 driver. Click on Update.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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