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WARNING: MAKE SURE THE DRIVER IS FOR CORRECT HARDWARE BEFORE BYPASSING COMPATIBILITY CHECK. This method should work with bypassing other driver compatibility checks as well. I figured this out after we purchased 12 Dell OptiPlex 5050 machines. They have the new 7th gen Intel Kaby Lake processors. All of our Windows machines on domain use Windows 7. As you may very well know, Microsoft has blocked support for these in the way of disabling Windows security updates for Windows 7 and 8/8.1. In a shameful attempt to forcibly get users to switch to Windows 10. Luckily Zeffy has released a patch on Github, to bypass this dishonest scheme. Patch can be found here https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc. I will try to stay with Windows 7 as long as possible, in my opinion, it is the last private Windows OS. Windows 10 is an improvement over 8/8.1, but the data mining is scary. Sure there are ways to disable these know privacy exploitations, but if you are not on a domain with active enforcement of policies blocking them, an update can revert them to default. And since updates are mandatory, you may not even know it has happened. I am tired of people’s ignorance being taken advantage of from tech companies using their platforms to steal peoples expected private information. Enough of this rant, on to the tutorial.
6 Steps total
Step 1: Download the OptiPlex 5040 Windows 7 driver pack
You could use the 5050 pack but I didn’t, so I don’t know if this step by step will work with it.
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/11659.optiplex-5040-windows-7-driver-pack
Step 2: Extract Video Drivers
Use 7-zip to extract the Video folder from that CAB file
Step 3: Get Display Adapter Hardware ID
Open device manager and find the display adapter
Open its properties, then go to details tab
Write down the hardware ID (“PCIVEN_8086&DEV_5912&SUBSYS_07A21028” in my case)
Step 4: Browse to Extracted Video Driver Directory
Go to following directory:
C:ExtractedPathvideoTDP4X_A00-00Windows7-x64ki121375.inf21.20.16.4627
Optiplex 5050 Specs
Step 5: Edit file ki121375.inf
Add a line in “Windows 7 Install - DT Only” section
Add this line using ID from step 3:
%iSKLDTGT2% = iSKLD_w7, PCIVEN_8086&DEV_5912&SUBSYS_07A21028
Search the file for that hardware ID to make sure it is using the same driver that would install in Windows 10 (ie. %iSKLDTGT2%)
Save file
Optiplex 5050 Drivers
Step 6: Now manually install the driver
Go back to device manager and update display adapter driver
Choose “Browse my computer for driver software”
Choose “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”
Click “Have Disk...”
Click “Browse…”
Find file you edited above (ki121375.inf)
Click “Ok”
Choose your only option “Intel(R) HD Graphics 530”
Dell Optiplex Drivers Windows 7
Click “Next”.
Dell Drivers Optiplex 5050
Bypass any warning message and let it install.
Reboot to finish
To Get Windows updates working on OptiPlex 5050 in Windows 7, download and install patch created by Zeffy here:
https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc
How I found solution:
The OptiPlex 5050 video driver does not work in Windows 7. I noticed it uses the same driver as the 5040, which installs fine in Windows 7. I downloaded the Windows 7 driver pack from Dell website for the 5040 (in hindsight, the 5050 pack will also work). You may be able to extract the all the required drivers from the video driver executable, but I didn’t test it. I then extracted the video section from the CAB file using 7-zip. I went to device manager and went to update display adapter driver. I manually pointer to each setup information INF file to find out which one would work. I found the one that listed multiple devices, but when I selected the correct one (Intel HD 530) and tried to install, it would fail with error say something about being wrong version of Windows. I then opened that INF file in a text editor and looked through it. In it there are different sections that pretty much assign a driver based on display adapters Hardware ID and Windows version. I got the hardware ID of the display adapter and added it to the INF file. I copied a line from one of the other Windows 7 devices and changed the hardware id to the one on the OptiPlex 5050. There are a couple different drivers assigned to specific devices. Comparing to others, I determined it was the GT2 driver. I then searched the file for the same Hardware ID I just added. It was further down the list in Windows10 section. I saw it was in fact using the GT2 driver. I saved file and manually pointed to it again when updating driver. It gives a warning about not being signed (because I modified file), but I allowed install anyway. It installed successfully.
3 Comments
- DatilElectric Sheep Nov 28, 2017 at 10:17pm
Wow, that's a lot more complicated then I figured it would be. Nice write up.
- Maceadrian_ych Nov 29, 2017 at 08:24am
There is a Dell 5050 Win7 driver pack... may try this ?
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/12241.optiplex-5050-windows-7-driver-pack
- AnaheimEric1185 Nov 29, 2017 at 04:14pm
I mentioned in this guide that that will also work, but when I found resolution I was using 5040 pack. I am not sure if file/folder names would be identical in the step by step.
The video driver will not install for Windows 7 in that pack either. Driver will also not install when downloaded from intel or dell. The only way is to modify inf.
+adrian_ych