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What do you want to do on this laptop? NOTHING is too hard for this laptop, not even Crysis on DX10. I doubt you'll be getting frustrated for quite some time. I'd say you can use the same tools to flash the BIOS, ask cataclysm, he owns this laptop.

EDIT: I'd go with a 1680x1050 screen personally.

 

i can get the quad core advent for £800 or the quad core msi for £1400, replacing the screen will cost £150 and il;l have the same machine for £450 less why would i buy the msi?

 

basically
I want to replace teh screen (i can do not a problem), gona get a 1920 x 1200 or (1680 x 1050) from lcds4less, think i could get the gt725 scrreen and put that in
and flash the bios so i can OC
if someone can give me some infop on that

 

Hey guys, just d/loaded Arma 2 from Steam, and it is awesome

I can run it on very high at 1920x1200

still trying to work out how to survive tho :S

 

Yeah it's really cool. My prefered setting is 1680x1050 high with 4x AA. You get good solid performance FPS, animations and effects look really natural and immersive, runs really fast!

It is rock hard, through out the game. Very different to Call Of Duty. You start by trying to play like that, and it gets you know where. It's very subtle, and once you get into the simulation aspect of it, the game really immerses you.

I've found the single player missions can get quite confusing. You really need to pay attention to everything that's going on.

 

sometimes (3-4)when the power was went off and i was playing crysis the notebook shut down because i didnt has the battery on it...i made a problem to my laptop or its fine?

 

also do u know other games like that arma2 ,but like call of duty.thanks

 

Generally not a great thing if your potebook looses power suddenly, which is
why I tend to keep my battery in when on AC.

Especially this notebook, the plug feels a bit loose. Sudden shutdown could cause loss of data corrupted system files, defragmented hard disc and so.

Top tactical shooter games, in no order, some old, some new, all playable on our lovely MSI GT725:

Battlefield 2
Counter-Strike: Source
America's Army 3
Sniper - Art of Victory
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Commandos Strike Force
SWAT 3/4
ArmA: Queen's Gambit
Half-Life 2
Far Cry 2
F.E.A.R. 2
Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Bioshock
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Call of Duty 1/2/3/4
Crysis/Crysis Warhead
Doom 3
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Left 4 Dead
Painkiller
Turok
Arera 51
Halo: Combat Evolved
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

Ahh... theres loads more getting bored of typing try Gamespot or IGN

 

omg thank you sooo much..do u have msn if i need more help ??
also ..
i had a program on my notebook maybe power manager i dont remeber and when i formated my pc with recovery disk i cant find it...can you please help me? that program checks if the hdd work ok

 

i think is Intel Matrix Storage Management

 

In which case you will definately need to install all the utilities and drivres from these llinks:

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=driver&maincat_no=135&prod_no=1676

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=utility&maincat_no=135&prod_no=1676

Just PM me if you want.

 

yea i know these pages thanks.

 

Is there any way to disable the annoying flashing blue led light that blinks when the laptop is asleep? It's preventing me from sleeping.

 

If that LED isn't used for anything important beyond sleep indication, I usually find a little bit of duck tape coloured black with permanent marker over the offending light works pretty well on these sorts of things

 

aahahahahahhahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
there is a button which says shut down..
why you dont push it?

 

hey.i want to make a recovery disk now .i am trying with msi recovery tool but its says to try again later,lol. and you please help me and tell me a program to download to create a recovery disk with these programs i have isntalled to my pc so i dont have to reinstall them if i want to format it in the future.
thanks in advance

 

the MSI recovery disc tool requires a minimum 10 gig of back up space to run on C: Make sure this is the case before you execute the program.

This won't backup your installed applications. I've bought a Western Digital USB drive for this purpose, which I can copy back across if I have to reformat. Speeds up recovery.

VISTA has a perfectly good back up tool in Control Panel - Back Up and Recover Tool - Create System Repair Disc

 

i am back after few days
it seems that my method doesn t work on vista 64, i will try to seek something but i don t have vista 64 so i can t test it...
for the overheating problem, i ran during 3mn a furmark test and i was getting 91°, and increasing.... i didn t wait more.... and my q9000 is undervolt at the lowest vid....

 

what do u mean by saying " I can copy back across if I have to reformat"
you copy paste the hole C: to your external or just the .exe files you need?
also do u know a program that backup all programs i have in a dvd so reformating with that dont have to reinstall all my apps

 

Yes just copy the whole of your install drive, at a time when you know your applications and so on are working. Then use windows system restore to disc.

Even if you have to reinstall some apps it will save a lot of time. You will need a portable USB disc with plenty of HD space, such as the Western Digital which has 320 Gig and costs only £69.00. Very cheap back up cost!

 

Anyone found any further info about these coming into stock in the UK?
Am getting a little impatient, my room is absolutely baking this time of year!
Closest secondary option I can find is the OcUK 15" [Titan Apollo?] thats on preorder, however it only uses a GTX 260M which is weaker judging by every single benchmark I've seen (even for Crysis, which is notoriously NV-centric), in comparison to the Mobility 4850 which I'd prefer. I'd also be stuck with no blu-ray, a weaker CPU and no OS for it to come in anywhere near the same price.

The UK seems to suck a bit for powerful laptops at more justifiable prices; especially when you consider the range available for our US colleagues.
The MSI genuinely seems the best bet at the moment which is why I'm holding out on one.

 

Hello people, i am new to the forum, and i want to share mine experiences with this wonderful notebook with you.

About driver`s i first used the stock one that came with the laptop, then changed it to DNA 9.4 a couple of weeks ago.

Then i started getting more and more problem`s while playing games like crysis and devil may cry, like BSOD`s and freezed black screens.

The exactly moment i managed to find out that the driver`s were the problem, the updated official MSI driver came out, i installed them and now the system is very stable without any crash`s at all. Don`t know about 9.6 performance trought, might be better than the MSI driver, but i think i will wait until MSI updates the official driver because of the stability is gives.

One thing that surprised me out is that the default memory frequency on the notebook is 667 MHZ. If i lift it up to 800 MHZ the CPU and GPU get 5C more hot while on full load, going up to more than 90C, so i leave it at 667 MHZ because my temps are already very high.

I get 55C temp when on idle and 86C playing crysis/Devil May Cry at very high/high and 2X AA and without any overclock/turbo. Is this good temp`s or the laptop is running too hot? i never saw any type of artifact trought.

I searched around for a way to set the fan speed but was not able to find anything that could do the job.

Thanks!

 

125°C is shutdown temperature for mobile CPU's. Anything up to 90°C stock full load would be acceptable, so your within safe limits.

Just be wary of the fact that this notebook has only one fan cooling both the CPU and GPU. This combined witht the position of the exhaust vents makes gaming difficult on your lap. I use a large hard back book

 

Some while back someone posted this - I am now having the same problem when installing the latest drivers from the MSI site - really would like to know if anyone has found a solution, it bugs me that I am stuck on the stock drivers that came with the lappy.

Any suggestions?
Thanks guys!!

 

can someone give me some information on overclocking the advent 6555 (if possible)
jsut got 1 for £800
i heard some ppl on here have it and could give me some information as its a msi rebrand
thanks
it aint arived yet jsut wondering can you get into the bios or do u have to soft overclock it (which i dont like lol)

 

i send email to technicians of msi and they told me that we have to remove the drivers completely and then install that..i said them that i already did that ,and they said me that they tested it before put it on the internet..i had the same problem and when i intall the moded 9.6 i am fine!!

 

Hmmm....guess they didnt test their drivers too well then. This is a very long thread, ive tried to search for info on modded 9.6 catalysts, with no luck - any chance a kind soul would be able to post a link, either to a premodded 9.6 file or to a link on how to mod /install myself?

Sorry if this is a /sigh question!

 

http://forum.gt725.de/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=205

 

Please see this thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=392869

 

what exactly do you mean??

 

It is possible to buy backup tools to recover your PC. I was suggesting the cheapest way to do this is to use Windows backup recover to disc and to copy your whole install directory to a backup disc, to save reinstalling all your programs.

You don't have to, just suggesting you can to save time, if you want to reformat for some reason.

 

So it seems one of my USB ports is dead.. It supplies power, but it doesn't have a data connection.. Which is weird, because it worked for a few hours when I plugged in a mouse, but then it suddenly stopped and hasn't been responsive since..

Anyone know a good eSATA->USB converter so I can use that port for USB?

 

It does look pretty beasty, probably about 1/2 the graphics performance of the GT725 again; saying that though I bet it cost an insane amount judging by the UK alienware prices and Im just wondering why you've paid so much for SLI 280M then not upgraded the CPU at all, as, based on desktop observations, that's surely going to be a limiting point in the minimum framerate department

 

He will upgrade the CPU himself for mucho less dinero

 

thx for your suggestiong but. let say that i formatted now and the contol panel > add remove programs is empty , and then paste in program files folder all my backup , the add remove programs file will still empty..my programs will still workign fine? can you tell me step by step pls?thanks

 

I plan on using my Q9100 to put in the AW.. The price was decent coming in at 2,700.00 and some change.. Thats a great price..

 

I take it you haven't realised that the eSATA port is also a USB port.. it has a usb connection inside of the eSATA

 

that's cool, some applications (Adobe CS4 Suite for example) will just repair the installation and shouldn't replace files already resident on the drive, so will take out some time reinstalling. That's a big deal for me since this application suite takes an hour or more to install. I have setup drive C: for OS and tools, Drive D: Apps software, Drive E: Games.

I run a lot of proffesional apps software so the benefit of doing this works out, but isn't worth while just for office and a few games.

 

Makes sense then to some degree 2700 is a hell of a lot to drop on a laptop, but if you'll use it and can afford it, well I'm sure you'll enjoy it I personally could afford it with a finance, but I just wouldn't feel comfortable shelling out that much on a laptop that'll be dated when it comes to gaming in the next couple of years Looks like an awesome spec though!


BTB - Can someone run HDTach long test/something similar so I can see what the HDD performance is like on the 5400RPM drives that come with most of these is like

 

Hey rupp3r, I'm using vista 64 atm, and am using 9.4 DNA drivers (they suck because I have to disable driver signing every time I want to start my comp). I'd be happy to be a guinea pig for new drivers. I'll try tester...'s drivers again, because I think I may have done something wrong.

And I think someone said that they couldn't find a link on how to install the new drivers from ATI, I've posted multiple times attaching the .inf files you need.

 

hey guys you know if UK technicians of msi can replace the whole case of my gt725 because i scratched it or maybe if you saw anywere selling a case only?
thanks in advance

 

You mean the case as in what? The aluminium, or the red painted bit? Or underneath?

And we're due for new drivers soon! My money's on a performance decrease this month.

 

So I can just plug a USB cable into there? Because I tried, and it doesn't really fit.

edit: There we go! I assumed this was the case, but after trying a couple times unsuccessfully, I gave up.

But I got it now, thanks!

 

i think aluminium and red are together so i want the both...pls can u help me?

 

lol thats so cool! I just tried my mouse in there and it works fine! I don't know why MSI say theres only 3 USB ports when theres obviously 4! Cheering

 

what drivers do u mean lampo?

 

also you play arma 2 ??? i am in the first mission and i dont know how to find and plant the f..... charges lol

 

When I owned a DELL, you could just buy individual parts of the laptop, so I guess you can do the same with MSI. You'de be looking at a couple of hundred dollars at least.

What I was talking about was you can plug a USB stick into the e-sata port! Holy awesomeness!

And no I don't play arma2, the only games I play are Portal and Race Driver Grid (you can see me playing online if you wanna race)