For a few weeks now I have been having a problem when first booting up my desktop. Normally, I switch on the monitor and then hit the button on the PC to boot up. The monitor briefly responds so I know that is OK and then the PC lights up and off we go. Recently the PC just leaves the monitor black but I can hear the fans in the tower are on. Its like there is no connection from PC to monitor. The cable in fine. And if I keep prodding the "On" button on the tower it eventually shuts off and when I prod again it starts normally. This is getting worse every day. I have checked out Device Manager and it flags up Intel HD Graphics 530. Looking for further details I find "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)". Could this be the problem. Further investigation finds that there is no newer driver to update it with. As it is built in to the processor (Intel Core i3-6100 3.7ghz) and failing can I solve the problem by simplly finding a low cost Pci video card to stick into the motherboard? From my research it appears this HD graphics 530 is pretty low performance and a bit of a joke among gamers but I never play games and it has always been good enough for a little Youtube and basic browsing purposes. If adding a seperate card is the answer, I will need to find out what card would be compatible with my older build running W7 Pro. Any comments? Please don't tell me to upgrade either the system or the OS.
If Device Manager reported Windows cannot load the driver, then the graphics chip (on CPU) must have a defect; I believe the only thing you can do is to buy some simple add-on graphics card and use that one instead.
Sorry if I misled you. Device Manager didn't report that Windows cannot load the driver. It simply said "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)". My first reaction was to try a driver update but couldn't find one. All further attempts were met with the message saying that the current one is up to date. I was just seeking out other opinions before I throw money at a graphics card. Finding one that will work on my motherboard is the next nut to crack.
One way or another my problem has been addressed. A member of another forum posted a link to a Microsoft driver repository that supplies drivers for my older system. I downloaded the latest and it has successfully updated my basic graphics setup and the Device Manager no longer reports a shutdown and Code 43. As the boot up problem was intermittent I will wait a few days before I declare it 100% fixed but so far it is working OK. Plan "B" is to install the cheap graphics card I ordered on ebay that will arrive next week. Thankfully it was dirt cheap because it's not fancy enough for gamers.
You don't need the latest driver anyway, but it's suspicious that Win7 update hasn't found an appropriate driver. There just might be something wrong with your IGP. Good that you've found a graphic card, it doesn't have to be expensive to get things done - which one did you buy?
I went through this myself recently, where none of the Intel GPU drivers offered by Dell worked on my Optiplex 7050 in Win 7. I was stuck with the Win 7 VGA graphics. So I bought an Nvidia 610 for its Win 8.1 driver, because I wanted to turn off CSM and start secure-booting. For what it's worth, the ultra-cheap Nvidia 610 gets a much higher Windows Experience Index than the native VGA graphics. That scoring system from 2009 really shows how much the business has changed, where the cheapest upgrades of 2025 give you top scores in Win 7. Install a cheap SSD: your drive score climbs from 5.8 to 7.8. Install the cheapest graphics card: your score climbs from 3.3 to 6.2. The relevance of the score depends on what you're doing. A 15-year-old pentium with SSD and 4gb RAM is faster for home office uses than an i7-7700 with 32gb RAM where I haven't gotten around to replacing the HDD with SSD yet.