Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek High Definition Audio is a MEDIA hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Realtek. The hardware id of this driver is HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0290&SUBSYS_103C80DD; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver. The archive contains version 6.0.1.8678 released on 2019-04-09 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 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 analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and 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 by Realtek.
Size of this driver: 60764867 bytes (57.95 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.2 stars out of 86144 votes.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. Installing the Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install 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 see!

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 detected driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Realtek Realtek High Definition Audio driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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