Installing HD630 Drivers on a Winodws 7 Laptop.

EHams — Wed, 10 May 2017 22:16:03 GMT

Hi all.

I bought a new Laptop with an i5 7200U CPU and a Nvidea 950m GPU. It had windows 10 (as expected), so I backed it up and installed windows 7 on top.

Despite the Laptop manufacturers not officially supporting windows 7, I was able to install most drivers without too much problems.

I also installed the windows 7 updates until Kabylake compatibility of course jumped up at the end. The one thing I really need now, is the Intel graphic driver.

I download the drivers on Intel's webpage. Windows 7 is btw. listed under the supported OS's.

But when I try to install, I get this message

"Your computer does not meet the minimum requirement for installing the software."

I should say that I did not install windows 7 as UEFI, but on legacy mode. Could that be it? (Please don't just say yes, unless you are having reason to believe so. It takes many many hours to install everything on a 5400 rpm HDD, including the updates.)

Is there any way I can install intels drivers on Windows 7? Btw. I also tried an older version of the driver, from 2016. Still does not work. Same error message.

The Laptop is an Acer E5 575G

Cheers everyone.

Re: Installing HD630 Drivers on a Winodws 7 Laptop.

idata — Thu, 11 May 2017 19:40:06 GMT

Hello Evil_Hamster,

Thank you for contacting the Intel community.

Windows 10 will be the only operating system supported under Kabylake platform, but also the driver is supported for Windows® 7 – 8.1 but on skylake platform only, you can check at:

https://downloadmirror.intel.com/26772/eng/ReleaseNotes_GFX_154518.4664.pdf https://downloadmirror.intel.com/26772/eng/ReleaseNotes_GFX_154518.4664.pdf

We have seen some customers modifying the INF of the driver to have it work for Windows® 7; however, this is under the customer's responsibility. You can see how some users modified it here:

/thread/110152 https://communities.intel.com/thread/110152

I hope this can help you.

Best wishes,

Ivan.

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