VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

VIA High Definition Audio is a MEDIA device. This driver was developed by VIA Technologies, Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_1106&DEV_4397&SUBSYS_170616F3; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio driver. The archive contains version 6.0.10.1600 dated 2013-01-29 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is running please accept 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 shutdown and 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 VIA Technologies, Inc..
Download size of the driver: 19260056 bytes (18.37 MB)
Driver rating 4.2 stars out of 99933 votes.
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. Installing the VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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 easy can you install a driver with 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 computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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