Driver for NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 - downloading and installing it

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 is a Display Adapters hardware device. The developer of this driver was NVIDIA. PCI/VEN_10DE&DEV_05E1 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Install NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 driver manually

1. Download the setup file for NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 driver from the location below. This download link is for the driver version 8.17.12.5947 released on 2010-08-21.
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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 enabled then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which should be pretty easy to follow. 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 PC and enjoy the new driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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This driver was not digitally signed.

This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 3.5 stars out of 47587 votes.

2. Installing the NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 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 take a look!

1. Start DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~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 available driver updates. Search the list until you locate the NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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