VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

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_0397&SUBSYS_10438415; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Install VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio driver. The archive contains version 6.0.1.10601 dated 2013-09-25 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is started please accept 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 quite easy to follow. The driver installation 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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VIA Technologies, Inc. applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 4464958 bytes (4.26 MB)
Driver rating 5 stars out of 5012 votes.
This driver is fully 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 VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio 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. How can you install a driver with 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 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 VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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