Friday 17 September 2010

IE9 Beta Crashes on every page with Intel Express 4 Chipset Graphics

I have a Dell Lattitude E5400 running Windows 7 x64 and decided to try the IE9 beta that has just been released. Unfortuneatly, the browser crashed on every page load. After some investigation I found it was caused by my graphics driver. The E5400 uses the Intel GMA graphics driver from the Express 4 chipset.

Problem driver version was 8.15.10.2141.

Working driver version is 8.15.10.2202.

You can get the new driver here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/download.aspx?url=/19336/a08/Win7Vista_64_151711.exe&DwnldId=19336&lang=eng 

Connnect bug is here:
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/599630/running-internet-explorer-9-with-gpu-accelleration-crashes-the-browser