topic Re: Why are there only HD 500 series drivers in the HD 600 series drivers? in Graphics

Why are there only HD 500 series drivers in the HD 600 series drivers?

EHams — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:51:41 GMT

Hi everyone.

I have downloaded the zip version of the graphics drivers for the 7200U chip, that is, for the HD 620 GPU. However, when I use the device manager with the "find disk" method and load the igdlh64.ini file, it only lists the 500 series drivers. Now 600 series drivers.

I used the link https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/96551/Intel-HD-Graphics-620 Downloads for Intel® HD Graphics 620 .

What is going on? Are the 500 series drivers the same as the 600 series drivers? Should I just use the HD 520?

Cheers.

Re: Why are there only HD 500 series drivers in the HD 600 series drivers?

Stefan3D — Thu, 11 May 2017 16:12:29 GMT

Are you trying to install your Kabylake under Windows 7? That combination won't be supported.

Re: Why are there only HD 500 series drivers in the HD 600 series drivers?

EHams — Thu, 11 May 2017 16:22:54 GMT

why not? I thought the only thing not supported under kabylake were updates after July.

Re: Why are there only HD 500 series drivers in the HD 600 series drivers?

Stefan3D — Thu, 11 May 2017 16:40:33 GMT

I have no idea why Microsoft and Intel made this decision and i'm afraid they won't tell us.

Check this thread:

Re: Why are there only HD 500 series drivers in the HD 600 series drivers?

EHams — Thu, 11 May 2017 17:31:09 GMT

Thank you for the info. But seriously, I thought that it was only the updates that were no longer supported. Was that not what M$ said (which was also going back on their word that they would give win7 support up to 2020, but thats a different issue)...

Lucky there is a workaround : Btw. I would rather install Linux.

I will never install windows 10. The only thing M$ will do with this, is drive me completely away from Windows... I'd rather go with Mac [sic.] than windows 10.

Cheers.

Re: Why are there only HD 500 series drivers in the HD 600 series drivers?

idata — Thu, 11 May 2017 21:33:30 GMT

Hello Evil_Hamster,

Thank you for contacting the Intel community.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience this can cause to you, unfortunately the Intel® HD Graphics driver for Kabylake is only supported on Windows® 10, and it is supported on Windows® 7 - 8.1 on Skylake processors. You can see the release notes here:

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

I can see that you found a work around on the Intel community to install the driver on Windows® 7; I hope that can help you.

Best regards,

Ivan.