Driver for VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio - downloading and installing it

VIA High Definition Audio is a MEDIA hardware device. The developer of this driver was VIA Technologies, Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_1106&DEV_8446&SUBSYS_10431053; this string has to match your hardware.

1. VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio driver. The archive contains version 6.0.10.1600 released on 2013-01-29 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is enabled 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 quite 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 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 VIA Technologies, Inc..
The file size of this driver is 19260056 bytes (18.37 MB)
This driver received an average rating of 4 stars out of 52542 votes.
This driver is compatible with 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 High Definition Audio driver

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. 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. 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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