You must first install the Intel driver. What is this error and how to fix it?

Many laptop owners often experience certain problems installing drivers. And sometimes you have to install them manually. Especially a lot of problems cause the driver of the video card. These components are the most moody. Especially in laptops. Very often unlucky users see a message like: "You need to install the Intel driver first." Naturally, they have no idea what this error means, and how to fix it. We will consider this issue in detail and provide a solution. But first, a little about the error itself.

What is this mistake?

So, the laptop issued a message stating that you must first install the Intel driver. What does it mean? This means that your laptop has a hybrid graphics system. That is, the system has two graphics adapters. One is a component of the chipset or processor and is responsible for displaying the image on the screen. As a rule, such a graphics adapter does not have sufficient performance for games, and video memory draws from RAM. Therefore, a powerful discrete video accelerator was sent to help him. The second video card is connected only when performing resource-intensive tasks. The rest of the time she is inactive. This saves the energy of the laptop. Naturally, different drivers are required for both video cards. And the error "you must first install the Intel driver" indicates that the drivers must be installed in strict order: first, the software for the integrated graphics adapter and only then for the discrete one. Now let's move on to solving the problem.

We fix the error

So, the system issued a message that you first need to install the Intel driver. What to do to solve the problem? First you’ll have to open a browser and download the official website of the laptop manufacturer. You need to find drivers for the graphics subsystem there and download them. After downloading, do the following.

1. Open Windows Explorer and move to the download directory.
2. We find the executable file in the name of which is the word "Intel".
3. Run the installer.
4. Follow the instructions and install the drivers for the integrated graphics core.
5. As soon as the drivers are installed, we reboot the machine.
6. After the restart, we again go to the download folder and run the file with the word "NVidia" in the name.
7. We follow the recommendations of the installer.
8. There is one caveat. It is worth specifying a custom installation.
9. Among the components prepared for installation, there is one completely useless - "Game Center".
10. Uncheck it and continue.
11. After the installation is complete, we restart the laptop again.

Now, after the restart, the system should work fine. Since all the drivers have been successfully installed. The message that you must first install the Intel driver would appear even at the stage of installing the NVidia drivers. If he was not there, then everything is in order.

Features of installation on some laptops

Sometimes laptops are very moody in terms of reinstalling drivers. And if you first need to install the Intel driver, NVidia will not install for anything until the standard driver is removed and the current one is installed. That is, before installing, you will have to remove the standard driver. It is easy to do.

1. Open the "Control Panel".
2. Click "Device Manager".
3. We select the column "Video adapters".
4. Right-click on the first and select "Properties".
5. In the "Driver" tab, look for the "Delete" button and click on it.
6. Confirm the action.
7. Repeat the operation for the second video adapter.

Now you can start installing the drivers you just downloaded. Everything should go fine.

Conclusion

So, we examined a very common error, in which the system displays a message stating that you must first install the Intel driver. The solution is very simple. Even a beginner can handle it.