Driver for VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA HD Audio Win8.1 - downloading and installing it

VIA HD Audio Win8.1 is a MEDIA hardware device. This driver was developed by VIA Technologies, Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_1106&DEV_E721&SUBSYS_10193191; this string has to match your hardware.

1. VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA HD Audio Win8.1 driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA HD Audio Win8.1 driver. The archive contains version 6.0.11.0400 dated 2014-03-03 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 enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan 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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VIA Technologies, Inc. applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 37541883 bytes (35.80 MB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.9 stars by 36744 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 VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA HD Audio Win8.1 driver

The 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 follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you locate the VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA HD Audio Win8.1 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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