Windows 10 tries to forcibly install an Intel Driver which crashes.

[altairauditore]

It started out with the computer booting to a pink-noise screen. I went into safemode, and everything worked fine. I booted back to normal Win10, and it would crash to a fuzzy display with random colors after a few minutes. I went back into safemode and used display driver uninstaller to forcibly remove the Intel display driver.
Now I'm using Windows 10 and the Microsoft display driver, and windows update has the intel driver ready to install. The problem is that I'm running Win10 x64 Pro on a Sandy Bridge system: i5 2400 + Intel HD 2000, which has no intel support for Win10 x64.
The driver it's trying to install is from July 15 and is meant for Windows 8/8.1 and causes the crash. Prior to this, I was running the system on a Win 8.1 x64 driver with NO issues, but this driver seems to cause problems.
Intel has removed the older drivers from it's website and Windows is forcibly trying to install a driver which causes the crash. I tried using wushowhide and hid the driver update, but it still persists and shows me a We'll automatically install updates when you aren't using your device, or you can install them now if you want.
Any way to get around this?

 

[redzo]

A lot of folks are angry about this.
https://communities.intel.com/thread/61432?start=0&tstart=0

Since the i5 2400 is still fast enough for usual stuff, I would probably purchase a cheap low power dx11 gpu(with win 10 support of course) and deal with this for good.

 

[altairauditore]

A lot of folks are angry about this.
https://communities.intel.com/thread/61432?start=0&tstart=0

Since the i5 2400 is still fast enough for usual stuff, I would probably purchase a cheap low power dx11 gpu(with win 10 support of course) and deal with this for good.

What's more irritating is that I had Win 8.1 x64 drivers for Intel HD2000 running on Win10 perfectly with no issue, and Windows update tried to update that and messed up everything. Intel has removed the older drivers (which worked fine) from their website, and now I'm stuck with buggy drivers I cannot use.

I don't game a lot, just Dota 2 so the Microsoft Basic driver should be fine for now. However, I use F.lux and it doesn't work with the basic driver, which is why I'm trying to find a workaround. I've lost access to the Intel Control panel, and I can't control brightness/contrast right now too. Monitor settings are the lowest, but the display is too bright.

Was thinking of adding a new card, but since this platform is ~4 years old and has no Windows 10 support, would it be better to sell this and upgrade to something newer? In terms of CPU performance, this is great and I have no reason to jump ship, but the driver support is non-existent.

 

[ascendant]

Sorry, accidentally posted on the wrong thread.

 

[daveybrat]

Why not just buy this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127930&cm_re=gt_710-_-14-127-930-_-Product

MSI GeForce GT 710 DirectX 12 GT 710 1GD3H LPV1 1GB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x 8 HDCP Ready Low Profile Video Card

1GB 64-Bit DDR3
Core Clock 954 MHz
1 x DL-DVI-D 1 x HDMI
192 CUDA Cores
PCI Express 2.0 x 8

It's much faster than the onboard HD2000 graphics and has full driver support for Windows 10. And it's only $34.99 + shipping.

 

[altairauditore]

Why not just buy this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127930&cm_re=gt_710-_-14-127-930-_-Product

MSI GeForce GT 710 DirectX 12 GT 710 1GD3H LPV1 1GB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x 8 HDCP Ready Low Profile Video Card

1GB 64-Bit DDR3
Core Clock 954 MHz
1 x DL-DVI-D 1 x HDMI
192 CUDA Cores
PCI Express 2.0 x 8

It's much faster than the onboard HD2000 graphics and has full driver support for Windows 10. And it's only $34.99 + shipping.

I think I will, but as I said wouldn't it be better to upgrade the whole platform? Chipset drivers aren't available for Win10, and although SB performs well, motherboards etc are getting rare.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Sandy Bridge iGPU HD graphics drivers for Win10 x64 won't work? And they pulled prior Win8.1 drivers that worked? What kind of horse-sheet is this from Intel?

And my i3-6100 Skylake i3 CPU, I'm not using, largely because the iGPU drivers are CRAP, and lose HDMI audio handshake with my monitor.

Interestingly, the prior Haswell iGPU drivers seem to have very little issue with it.

Edit: All the Intel Rah-Rah cheerleaders are like "The Intel iGPUs are catching up to AMD! Hooray!". Unfortunately, they leave off the fact that, for the most part, Intel's drivers for their iGPU Simply Don't Work.

Give me an AMD iGPU all day long - their drivers WORK.