I originally purchased Dell XPS 8700 desktop in early 2014. I then took out the graphics card that came with it and instead I started using the built-in graphics on the mainboard (which I believe is Intel Z87 chipset,)
I should also say that I also fully re-installed Windows 8 (to remove all Dell crapware) so none of the original video drivers were preserved.
Since then I keep getting constant problems with the video driver. Quite often Windows will show a balloon with an error saying that my video driver has recovered from a crash. This usually happens when I watch a YouTube video in Chrome browser.
I have also been constantly updating the video driver by right-clicking the desktop and picking "Graphics properties":
which would bring this window:
after which I will navigate to the Intel site that will run automated driver detection plug-in and suggest an update, which I will install. (To no avail.)
I believe I must have done this 3 or 4 times for the last year. This somewhat helped with the most obvious crashes, but there's still a bunch of issues remaining.
The most annoying issue now is that when my monitor goes into an energy saving mode (if I don't use computer for about 20 min) Windows makes a noise like if it's installing a new hardware. Then if I wake up screen by moving the mouse, sometimes Windows Explorer windows have strange "black rendering artifacts" in them. And also, most annoying, all of my Google Chrome thumbnails for Windows 8 jumplists will be reset. Here's a screenshot:
I know that it shouldn't work like this (I can compare it to my other computer.)
So I'm asking this at the Intel site -- is it possible for me to download the driver that works??????