Broadcom NB-290 driver download and installation

NB-290 is a Bluetooth hardware device. This driver was developed by Broadcom. USB/VID_0B05&Pid_178A is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Broadcom NB-290 - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Broadcom NB-290 driver. The archive contains version 12.0.0.0010 released on 2012-02-02 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is running please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through 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 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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Broadcom applied a digital signature to this driver.
Driver file size: 3072055 bytes (2.93 MB)
Driver rating 4.9 stars out of 21090 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. Installing the Broadcom NB-290 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, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Search the list until you find the Broadcom NB-290 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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