Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS is a Bluetooth hardware device. The developer of this driver was Atheros Communications. The hardware id of this driver is USB/VID_0cf3&PID_3004.

1. Manually install Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver

1. Download the driver setup file for Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver from the location below. This is the download link for the driver version 7.4.0000.0098 released on 2011-09-27.
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3. Start the driver setup file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is started then you will have to confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which should be quite straightforward. The driver installation wizard will analyze your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Restart your PC and enjoy the new driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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This driver is digitally signed by the manufacturer.
The file size of this driver is 277103 bytes (270.61 KB)
Driver rating 5 stars out of 40146 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. Using DriverMax to install Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS 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 see!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~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. Scroll the list down until you find the Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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