VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA PCIE Smart Card Reader - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

VIA PCIE Smart Card Reader is a Smart Card Reader device. This Windows driver was developed by VIA Technologies, Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_1106&DEV_9285.

1. How to manually install VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA PCIE Smart Card Reader driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA PCIE Smart Card Reader driver. The archive contains version 1.2.8.10902 dated 2011-09-02 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please confirm the installation 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 pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed.
Size of this driver: 24607 bytes (24.03 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.1 stars out of 61938 votes.
This driver was released 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 PCIE Smart Card Reader 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 easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and push on the yellow button named ~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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA PCIE Smart Card Reader driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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