Driver for ESS Technology, Inc. ESS Maestro3 PCI Audio WDM - downloading and installing it

ESS Maestro3 PCI Audio WDM is a MEDIA hardware device. This driver was developed by ESS Technology, Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_125D&DEV_1998&CC_0401; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install ESS Technology, Inc. ESS Maestro3 PCI Audio WDM driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the ESS Technology, Inc. ESS Maestro3 PCI Audio WDM driver. The archive contains version 5.12.01.1152 released on 2001-09-20 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through 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 restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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ESS Technology, Inc. applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 108968 bytes (106.41 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.4 stars out of 85720 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install ESS Technology, Inc. ESS Maestro3 PCI Audio WDM 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 push on the yellow button that says ~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 locate the ESS Technology, Inc. ESS Maestro3 PCI Audio WDM driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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