C Media Audio Drivers
For CMI873x or CMI876x series, C-Media no longer support Win10 driver. For CMI878x, CM88xx, or USB Audio series, please contact your product vendor to get customized Win10 driver. However, if your product didn't apply customized driver when you purchased, you can then just use Win10 in box standard driver.
After upgrading system to Windows 10, the plugging-in C-Media USB audio device such as cad u37 microphone cannot working well. In device manager, you can only find it on the other devices with a yellow exclamation. And it reminds you in general tab: the USB audio device driver not installed. So if it does not have a driver installed, you cannot use the microphone.
Solutions:
Solution 1: Uninstall the USB Audio Device Driver
If the C-Media USB audio device driver does not installed well, you can uninstall it. After it is uninstalled, Windows 10 can install it again.
1. Click Win + R, and type devmgmt.msc in the run box to open device manager.
2. Expand Other devices, right-click the C-Media device, and choose Uninstall device.
3. Check Delete the driver software for this device and then click Uninstall.
After that, Windows will uninstall the device driver for your computer.
4. Return to device manager, and click Scan for hardware changes. Windows will start rescan the computer devices and reinstall the driver for C-Media USB device.
If this cannot help you to solve the problem, go ahead to view other solution.
Solution 2: Update C-Media USB Audio Driver
If Windows cannot help you install the right driver, you can install the compatible driver. How much is a 2011 mac desktop worth.
1. Right-click the C-Media USB audio device, and select Update Driver Software.
2. Choose Browse my computer for driver software.
3. Choose Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer.
4. Check Show Compatible hardware, you will see the compatible hardware. And you can choose High Definition Audio Device. And then click Next.
5. Click Yes. The warning is normal because you will install a compatible hardware driver.
After that, system will install the driver.
If install the compatible hardware drivers cannot help you to solve this problem, you can download and update the C-Media USB audio driver in the next two ways.
You can download it from the C-Media manufacturer’s website. Entering the C-Media official site, find the C-Media device, and then download it. After download finished, you can install it manually.
If you have any problem of doing it manually, you can use Driver Booster to help you download and update C-Media driver automatically. This will be an effective way. You can view the solution from here: update C-Media drivers in manually way and automatically way.
Wish this article can help you solve C-Media USB audio device drivers not installed problem.
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CMI9761. CMI9780 HD Audio.
CMI9880 (some of them have Dolby Master Studio certification) USB audio. Free svg editor. CM102A+/S+. CM108AH. CM108B.
CM118B. CM119B/BN.
CM6206. CM6206-LX. CM6300. CM6302.
CM6317A. CM6327A.
CM6400. CM6400X1. CM6500B.
CM6502B. CM6510B. CM6523B. CM6530N. CM6531N. CM6533(N). CM6533DH.
CM6533X1. CM6535. HS-100B Wi-Sonic network audio. CMWS-01: Uses CMI8769 for audio. WS-011. WS-012.
WS-021. WS-022. WS-101 USB storage. CM120 (Support for this product does not exist in C-Media.tw). CM220. CM220F. CM220L.
CM220S. CM320. CM320L. CM320S Sensaura licence expiry C-Media's licence expired on 23 September 2008. While there is an article promoting new Xear3D EX with OpenAL support, replacement drivers are not available at the current time.
As of 26 September 2011, drivers are now available for some PCI chipset models. CMI 8738. CMI 8768. CMI 8768+. CMI 8770. CMI 8787.
CMI 8788 See also. References.