Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio how to download and install the driver

Realtek High Definition Audio is a MEDIA hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Realtek. HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0262&SUBSYS_17AA3056 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver. The archive contains version 6.0.1.6353 dated 2011-04-19 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 (UAC) is running please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes 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 digitally signed by Realtek.
Size of this driver: 15652632 bytes (14.93 MB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 61013 votes.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• 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 install Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver using DriverMax

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date. How can you install a driver using 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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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