I then installed and used the Lenovo recommended graphics drivers and my experience was identical, but I could not get that Windows error message to appear. Now, I don't know what made this Window appear because it doesn't appear every time the driver crashes, but I got one of those windows error reporting windows informing me that 'igf圎M.exe' had crashed with the following log or crash report (not sure what it's called) and here's the 'report'Īdditional Information 2: 7b12887f1266c11d75834d9159e570beĪdditional Information 4: 43e9d4336027b0f34b8b32d283c246f4 But, the artifacts still remain, and with less frequency (every minute or so instead of every 10 seconds) the driver crashes and the screen goes black. I successfully flashed the bios update and reinstalled the latest generic drivers available.

If it's of any note, before all of this the computer had Windows 10 installed and had similar artifacts but the driver did not crash and there were no black or blue screens. I'm happy to provide any additional information that might help me solve this problem. of 'Intel Graphics Driver' from this product page: Downloads for Intel® Core™ i3-5020U Processor (3M Cache, 2.20 GHz) My experience was identical. I uninstalled the Drivers, and downloaded the generic drivers which Intel recommends for my device, version 15. So, I rebooted into safe mode, and just as before I installed the drivers, there are no artifacts and everything works normally. After a few seconds, I can no longer move my mouse and the computer appears frozen, the screen turns black, then I see my desktop again (still with artifacts) along with a notification on the bottom right that says 'Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered' and the screen turns black and the cycle repeats a few times until I get a blue screen that indicates that 'igdkmd64.sys' is related to the blue screen. Īfter a restart, artifacts began to appear on screen, windows extended out towards the bottom of the screen, pixels randomly colored, and generally violent images were made out of a plain Windows 7 desktop. of 'Intel Graphics Driver' and downloaded it from this product page. I decided to install the Graphics Drivers that my OEM recommends, version 10. With no graphics drivers installed, it works with no unexpected issues. I own a Lenovo Ideapad 100-15IBD with an i3-5020u and HD Graphics 5500 running Windows 7(64).

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