Correct driver for Intel Graphics 620?

I'm setting up a new-to-me laptop with 7th generation i3-7100U with 620 Graphics, Win10 Pro 2004. Windows Update installed a new graphics driver, 27.20.100.7990 and doesn't want to update it further. What I'm confused about is that Intel doesn't show a version 7990 at all, but does show many newer driver versions. The latest graphics driver provided by HP is several years older than what Windows Update provided. Oh, and the Intel Driver & Support Assistant fails on this machine, so that's no help.
I guess my question is, why would Windows Update be providing a driver that's not available from either HP or Intel, and why would WU not be providing the latest driver from Intel? Is there any reason to think that 7990 is indeed the best currently available driver for my system, rather than a newer version from Intel?

Intel doesn't necessarily push every single update to Windows update unless there is some major new feature / bug fix. Intel tends to come out with updates rather frequently for the display driver, many of them being simply for specific support of new games and minor tweaks such as that.

You can download and install the newer version from Intel if you prefer, but it may not buy you much.

OEM customizations doesn't affect generic DCH driver installations anymore. So just go to Intel's website and install their generic DCH driver.

Windows 10: Intel unlocks graphics drivers so you can now bypass OEM customizations | ZDNet

I also have an HP laptop with 620HD graphics / 7th gen i7. It originally shipped with non-DCH drivers but the latest DCH drivers work flawlessly.

hsehestedt said:

I also have an HP laptop with 620HD graphics / 7th gen i7. It originally shipped with non-DCH drivers but the latest DCH drivers work flawlessly.

Thanks, that's good to know. Since you have a similar setup, can I ask you about a related topic? I occasionally have very slow SSD access so looked in Device Manager at the IDE Controller and it says "6th Generation Core Processor Family Platform I/O SATA ACHI Controller" where I would have expected 7th Generation. Is it the same on yours?

Sorry, my system has no SATA controller, only NVMe.

mc510 said:

I'm setting up a new-to-me laptop with 7th generation i3-7100U with 620 Graphics, Win10 Pro 2004. Windows Update installed a new graphics driver, 27.20.100.7990 and doesn't want to update it further. What I'm confused about is that Intel doesn't show a version 7990 at all, but does show many newer driver versions. The latest graphics driver provided by HP is several years older than what Windows Update provided. Oh, and the Intel Driver & Support Assistant fails on this machine, so that's no help.
I guess my question is, why would Windows Update be providing a driver that's not available from either HP or Intel, and why would WU not be providing the latest driver from Intel? Is there any reason to think that 7990 is indeed the best currently available driver for my system, rather than a newer version from Intel?

Is the "new-to-me laptop" one that did or did not have a clean install?

zbook said:

Is the "new-to-me laptop" one that did or did not have a clean install?

Yep, clean install from USB. I deleted the existing partitions and let the Windows installer create what it needed.

These were the latest information that was seen in the google searches.
There was no definitive answer.
Maybe one of these links may be useful.

Just a moment...
https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/0...on-windows-10/
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/bph07165

For Intel drivers on HP computers:

For the Intel driver and support assistant there are two methods:
web based and download

Intel(R) Driver & Support Assistant
Download Intel(R) Driver & Support Assistant

For HP consumer laptops:

HP software:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers...Id/ob-213280-2
https://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/...hpsupport.html

Windows updates:
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Home.aspx

HP firmware:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers...Id/ob-254188-1