Getting W10 Intel graphics drivers to run in W7

johnhoh said:

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This is the procedure I use to successfully get the newest HD630 graphics drivers (which are Win10 only) working within W7 on my system.

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Greetings john.
I'm trying to install W7 on a Kaby Lake HD620 system, and would appreciate if you could kindly share your expertise in modifying the w10 intel graophics drivers to run in W7.
Many thanks and best regards,

This link is the tutorial I made some time ago on how to manually adjust the intel graphics driver INF file so it will work with kabylake on windows 7

Intel g4560 kabylake on windows 7 64 bit

A couple notes though. I used this method to install a few progressive driver versions, and have no idea if it will work with the latest version. I'm still on 21.20.16.4664 right now, having installed a couple later versions but then went back to 4664, for reasons I can't even remember.

The instant kaby lake came out I got one along with a z270 board, and found that gigabyte had a beta kaby lake win7 download that worked just fine. A few weeks later intel decided to disallow kabylake on win7, but I believe the gigabyte download is still out there and may well work for anyone. Can't hurt to try. Here is the link. Its version 4508. Installing this is easier than modifying your INF.

http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList...16.4508_w7.zip

here's all the gigabyte drivers. Only one beta though, and its for the vga I mentioned.

GA-Z270N-WIFI (rev. 1.0) | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global

johnhoh said:

This link is the tutorial I made some time ago on how to manually adjust the intel graphics driver INF file so it will work with kabylake on windows 7

Intel g4560 kabylake on windows 7 64 bit

A couple notes though. I used this method to install a few progressive driver versions, and have no idea if it will work with the latest version. I'm still on 21.20.16.4664 right now, having installed a couple later versions but then went back to 4664, for reasons I can't even remember.

The instant kaby lake came out I got one along with a z270 board, and found that gigabyte had a beta kaby lake win7 download that worked just fine. A few weeks later intel decided to disallow kabylake on win7, but I believe the gigabyte download is still out there and may well work for anyone. Can't hurt to try. Here is the link. Its version 4508. Installing this is easier than modifying your INF.

http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList...16.4508_w7.zip

johnhoh said:

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; Windows 7 Install - DT Only
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[IntelGfx.NTamd64.6.1]
; SKL HW
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%iKBLDTGT2% = iSKLD_w7, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_5912
%iKBLWGT2% = iSKLD_w7, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_5912
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Thanks for the kind reply, John.

1. The Hardware ID of %iKBLWGT2% is 591D, but was modified to 5912. Wonder if it was a typo?
2. HDMI audio from the 4664 package failed to install. Did you have similar problem? Any fix?
3. Did you try modifying a "w10 only" package such as 6286?


Many thanks and best regards,

goopy said:

1. The Hardware ID of %iKBLWGT2% is 591D, but was modified to 5912. Wonder if it was a typo?

The hardware ID of MY OWN cpu is 5912. You will want to use the 4-digit string that applies to your cpu, as discussed in step 5 of my linked post.

goopy said:

2. HDMI audio from the 4664 package failed to install. Did you have similar problem? Any fix?

After installing, don't forget to go into control panel > sounds and change the default sound device from your speakers to your monitor, otherwise you will not hear anything from your monitor.
But if you are saying you got an hdmi installation error of some type, please post step by step details of what you did, and how windows told you about the error.

goopy said:

3. Did you try modifying a "w10 only" package such as 6286?

I do not know what you mean by 6286. But no, I would not use a win10 only package because those install scripts will include writes to win10 registry entries that do not exist for win7.