New Win10 compatible Intel Sandy Bridge graphics drivers

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News from ER: About the Windows 10 and Intel Sandy Bridge graphics hardware problem; Intel still has chosen not to release any Win10 specific graphics
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Intel’s OS-graphics support page explicitly excludes support for Sandy Bridge on W-10 (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/graphics-drivers/000005526.html). Note that the latest Intel graphics driver for W-10 does not include support for Ivy Bridge or anything previous (https://communities.intel.com/thread/103311).

6-series motherboards have trouble running W-10 — 7-series have less trouble — yet both 6-series and 7-series chipsets accept Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors. Did the great Microsoft announce which chipsets will accept this new driver? That URL you included explains nothing.

Microsoft probably took a 8/8.1 graphics driver and tested a few use cases on W-10. It was not properly qualified, i.e. tested against all likely combinations of hardware. And you can just forget about asking about problems on Intel forums.

One month ago I tested W-10 on Sandy Bridge processors and 6-Series boards, both Intel and Gigabyte. I saw a BSOD on the former and strange results (drives would not display in Computer and Disk Management) on the latter.

And if this new driver does indeed solve the problems, it only reinforces Microsoft’s gross incompetence for not releasing it before July 29.

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PC Cobbler, I can actually vouch that this driver (or at least the 9.17.10.4229 version of it) does work with a 6-Series motherboard. I squeaked in updating my housemate’s computer to Win 10 right before the deadline, in part because of the questionable support for her integrated graphics (she has an older Sandy Bridge CPU, with the HD Graphics 2000 as the integrated GPU, on a H61 Cougar Point motherboard). I only decided to go for it because I saw that there were now built-in drivers, besides third party customized ones, plus I could always reimage her drive with a backup. I tested it with a HD file I had, and it worked fine. Granted, she would only be playing videos on there, so I can’t say what features are missing, but it has been stable.

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What brand of motherboard is your H61?

I used Intel H67 and Gigabyte H61 and both had problems with device drivers.

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My Toshiba Satellite laptop is Sandy Bridge, and has not had graphics issues with Windows 10 from the outset. But it did get the Intel update recently.

My newer ASUS tablet (Atom Z2000 series) also got an Intel graphics Driver update recently.

So it may not be just Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge Intel systems which are getting an Intel Graphics driver update ahead of the Anniversary Update.

In any event, it’s good to know that both devices now have updated drivers for the Anniversary Update. (I spent an afternoon updating all drivers and the BIOS for the tablet, and all available drivers for the laptop.)

It’s always wise to make sure drivers and BIOS updates are the latest available which work for your devices when doing what is for all practical purposes, a Service Pack Upgrade.

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Actually Intel does have Win10 drivers for IVY Bridge graphics hardware (3rd gen Intel HD Graphics 2500 & 4000)on their web site, PC Clobber.

Quote from the link you mentioned:
“Windows 10 drivers for 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® HD Graphics 4000 and 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® HD Graphics 2500 (formerly codenamed Ivy Bridge) will include support for Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 1.3. For reference, WDDM 1.2 features are available on Microsoft’s website. This Windows 10 driver won’t be digitally signed, which means that it hasn’ been tested by Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). Note that Windows will alert you with a message if a driver is not digitally signed, but you can continue the installation.”

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what model of Toshiba laptop do you have, rc primak?

I will attempt to upgrade my family’s Dell Inspiron 620 desktop PC from Win7 SP1 to Win10 v1511 (using the Win10 Apr 2016 DVD I created a few months ago) and install the v9.17.10.4459 driver for the onboard Intel HD Graphics 2000 hardware. I’m holding off on upgrading Win10 with the v1607 anniversary update and will just stick to using the v1511 (10586 build).

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I have a question about updating drivers. I used a driver updater software that told me that I had 22 drivers which needed updating so I went into device manager and updated them myself one by one. I only found 10 that needed updating. I repeated the driver updater software and they still found 19 drivers needing updating. I looked at a few of them and they all had according to the updater available dates later than my now updated drivers. I went to the Intel site to check one of the drivers and found this phrase “Intel provides generic versions of drivers for general purposes. Your computer manufacturer may have altered the features, incorporated customizations, or made other changes to your driver.”
So my question is when Windows device manager updates my drivers who does it go to : the component manufacturer or the computer manufacturer? And is the driver updater software telling me the truth?

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Windows only updates drivers that have been approved by Microsoft. They may come from the component manufacturer or the computer manufacturer.

I generally recommend that you only update drivers if there’s something obviously broken. And when you do update drivers, I suggest that you go to the manufacturer’s site.

Chances are very, very good that the driver update software primarily exists to sell you more driver update software.

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Hi dears. My graphic card is sandy bridge and I wanna install windows 10 on my laptop. Can I do that? Thanks for your guidance .

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