Windows update is asking for an AMD driver in an Intel laptop.

ver01@ · 10 Jul 2019 at 12:08

Cannot install the May 2019 update of Windows 10 on my Dell Latitude that has Intel CPU and Intel Integrated GPU as I am asked to install an AMD driver!?
Not sure if it will actually work even if I install the driver but don't see why I need to install a driver that is not relevant to my PC just so i can update windows.

Beerbaron · 10 Jul 2019 at 12:18

AMD graphics card?

Armageus · 10 Jul 2019 at 12:33

Does your laptop have an Intel 8305G/8705G/8706G/8709G/8809G processor by any chance?

If so then the Intel processor has integrated AMD Vega Graphics.

ver01@ · 10 Jul 2019 at 15:40

No it doesn't

Armageus · 10 Jul 2019 at 15:41

ver01@ said:
No it doesn't

So what does it have? Laptop and Processor model might be helpful

ver01@ · 10 Jul 2019 at 16:42

Dell XPS 12 Intel M7

Danny75 · 10 Jul 2019 at 17:59

Windows contains plenty of drivers with "AMD" in the name regardless of having any AMD hardware so it might also be helpful to list the full driver name.

This is just a sample:

A partly corrupt Windows install could be to blame unless it's just a bug.

Vince · 10 Jul 2019 at 18:06

ver01@ said:
Cannot install the May 2019 update of Windows 10 on my Dell Latitude that has Intel CPU and Intel Integrated GPU as I am asked to install an AMD driver!?
Not sure if it will actually work even if I install the driver but don't see why I need to install a driver that is not relevant to my PC just so i can update windows.

The x64 instruction set used by both Intel and AMD cpu's is AMD proprietary tech and is cross licensed with Intel against x86. Your machine, even with no AMD hardware couldn't run a 64 bit Windows os without AMD instruction sets and drivers within windows.

ver01@ · 11 Jul 2019 at 10:40

It's a RAID driver?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...-update-on-computers-running-certain-amd-raid

ver01@ · 13 Jul 2019 at 14:54

I will leave it for a month as it is probably something that will be fixed with the next update. Doesn't make sense installing unnecessary drivers.

ver01@ · 24 Jul 2019 at 17:33

Still nothing and these AMD drivers will not install.

ver01@ · 29 Jul 2019 at 17:28

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-260

Unable to proceed with installation or upgrade of Windows® 10 May 2019 Update with SATA or NVMe RAID on AMD Ryzen™ systems

Interestingly the SSD which is a Samsung PM951 NVMe shows as being AMD-RAID in device manager under disk drives (AMD-RAID PM951 NVMe Samsung SCSI Disk Device).

ver01@ · 4 Aug 2019 at 12:07

ver01@ said:
I will leave it for a month as it is probably something that will be fixed with the next update. Doesn't make sense installing unnecessary drivers.

A bit sooner than expected but finally MS released a compatible update.