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thanks for the answers.... Im gonna test them.

Im having troubles with the webcam... It seems that the laptop doesnt recognized it, What do I have to do in order to get the webcam work??

And yes... the MSI Its the best option

 

The webcam will be 'off' by default. Have you tried pressing and holding the "Fn" key, while pressing the "F6" key? Also, do you have any webcam software installed on your system?

 

Thanks for the information! Deff. will be buying from gentech now.

Thanks! I'm gonna get an SSD to so I can put windows on it so it will be a little faster.

True. After i got to really comparing all the little things that the MSI has that the asus don't, It will deff. be the better choice.

Thanks for all the help guys!


I hardly ever post on this forum bc i usually just lurk around. But when i do post with a question/problem/etc, Everyone does there best to help me out and i get all the information i could ever need!!!

I give this forum A++++!

 

VLC hands down

 

Quality, contrast and colors (especialy blacks wich are too bright with VLC) are really better with the klite codec pack than with VLC ! Try by youself and you will see.

Klite codec pack got a lot of codecs like VLC.

With Klite codec pack, you are able to install Media player classic but you can also use built-in Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center, Live Movie Maker and preview fonctionnality of Windows 7 Explorer !
No ugly VLC icon !

 

Now Its working.... I had tried the F6 key but nothing happen, I thingk sometime was wrong when I install the Sbar... I reinstalled and now everything It's fine.

I tested VLC and Media classic.... but Im going with GOM player... Its really good and have a exelent image quality, plus great quality rendering subs files.

Thanks everyone.

Thanks

 

I've been using the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack for years and very satisfied.

There's also a Codec Pack for 64bit

Download K-Lite Codec Pack

 

In Device Manager>Human Interface Devices do you have any yellow or red marks on the listed devices?

A reinstall of the Intel Chipset Installation Software may help.

The latest WHQL version is 9.2.3.1022
intel drivers pour chipsets

I boot from a Parted Magic Linux Distro USB stick.

I unpack the ISO using the Universal USB Installer aka Pendrive.

Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick | USB Pen Drive Linux

You can try this to unpack your Mint distro to USB.

 

This is actually not a USB issue. I was having his same problem myself. unfortunately.... the last log line doesn't say anything about the real problem. try adding 'nomodeset' (without quotes) to the boot parameters by pressing TAB when you are at the GRUB menu.

 

1) No yellow or red marks on listed devices.

2) Made sure chipset was updated, same issue after install.

3) I also am booting from a Parted Magic Linux Distro USB Stick, and using the same one from your link. What distro are you installing? I'm going to try an older version and see if that works...also going to try a different USB stick, just to make sure that isn't the issue.

aaand back. Alright tried two more things:
Different USB stick with Mint 12...failed.
Previous USB stick with Mint 10...success!

Strange that an older version works...will try to upgrade through that to 12, and hopefully everything will work out ok!

 

I'm using the newest Parted Magic
pmagic_2011_11_24_x86_64.iso

Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.7.3.exe – December 2, 2011 – Changes
Updated to support Parted Magic 2011_11_24 and Pinguy OS 11.04.1.
Universal USB Installer – Easy as 1 2 3 | USB Pen Drive Linux

 

Well... I stand corrected. I was getting the exact same error, but apparently the fix wasn't the same.

 

MSI GT783 with GTX580M

Or just search MSI GT783 on google.

 

Yes that is an issue with the new distros based on Ubuntu 11.04 onwards. I suspect it is issue with later Linux kernelversions including 3.0 .I haven't tried other distros except Ubuntu but both 11.04 and 11.10 have exactly the same behavior as you have noticed. The workaround that seems to be working atleast in my case is to first install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS version and then ask it for a distro update. Make sure to install all patches and bug fixes for 10.04 before upgrading to 11.04. Once you have 11.04 you can again upgrade it to 11.10. I know this is cumbersome but that is the only way to get Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 running on the machine. I myself don't know what is causing the new kernels to hang in between. I suspect it is one of the hardware whose device driver is causing this issue. With the Ubuntu 10.04 version the distro uses old binaries and they are updated once you install patches of 10.04 which seems to solve the issue. By the way do not install Nvidia drivers after you install 10.04. Also Wireless is not working with 10.04 (Intel 6230). But with 11.04 onwards you will have the Wireless drivers installed automatically.
I tried evrything from DVD,CD USB stick connected to different ports (Left right and USB3.0 port) but no success. Changed lots of BIOS options but still it hangs with newer distributions.
Hope that solves your issue.
Cheers

 

Holy crap I got it to load Mint 12 off the DVD. Mint 10 worked, but drivers were a big pain to deal with, and newer distros automagically have them, as you stated. Plus, good learning experience. Anyway, I'll state what I'm doing, just in case someone else magically runs across this post:

1) After BIOS post, press ctrl + I to enter RAID BIOS
2) press 2 to delete RAID
3) press 5 to exit
4) enter system BIOS (delete key) and setup SATA from RAID to AHCI
5) press F10 to save and exit
6) (re)install Windows

I did sort of a carpet-bomb approach, so I know a majority of these are pointless, but here's what I had set for the boot from DVD to work (I assume this works for the newer Ubuntu distros as well, since Mint is built on it):

1) BIOS: (pretty sure these settings are pointless, but it's what I had them set to while dinking around with other commands)
USB Options:
Legacy USB: AUTO
XHCI: Disable
EHCI: Disable
2) Boot off CD, press any key to stop the 10 second countdown. Press TAB, and change the following:
REMOVE: quiet splash (optional)
ADD (before the --): noapic noapci nomodeset acpi=oldboot

I have a suspicion it's just the "acpi=oldboot" that is the magic fix on this one, so someone with more knowledge can chip in at this part.

I can confirm that wireless ethernet adapter AND the webcam work for the install.

------------------------------

Booting into it after install:

uhhh...new problem. Boot fails...not surprised. We need to edit boot options.

Boot normally, and it fails, so you'll have to edit the boot command. Fun stuff:
1) At boot menu, press "e" to edit the boot command.
2) Go down to where it says "linux /boot/vmlin"
3) Remove "quiet splash" (optional)
4) Add "noapic noapci nomodeset acpi=oldboot"
5) press F10 to boot into it. The first time I did this, it actually froze while booting. Did it again and it worked (I might have misspelled something first time)
6) Now you're in!
7) Change the boot permanently: Open Terminal
8) sudo bash
Now, at this point you can edit the existing boot, or make your own script. I made my own since I'm a noob and can't comprehend the existing boot scripts yet. All I did was copy the innards from the boot menu, and added the working options.
9) gedit /etc/grub.d/01_gt780dxr (or whatever your favorite editor is ) (you can change the 01 to any number to change the ordering - with it at 01, it comes before the other options in the boot menu)
10) SCRIPT: ("simply" copy what is there in the other script when you press 'e' on boot menu - we're just adding the other options in the linux boot line)
#!/bin/sh -e
echo " am I doing...I hope this works"
cat << EOF
menuentry "Mint 12 - MSI GT780DXR boot options" {
recordfail
set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root c876a7ef-2ae7-4492-a481-c5150cd69408
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=c876a7ef-2ae7-4492-a481-c5150cd69408 ro noapic noapci nomodeset acpi=oldboot vt.handoff=7
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic
}
EOF
11) chmod +x /etc/grub.d/01_gt780dxr
12) update-grub
13) exit
14) reboot and pray it somehow works...oh wow it worked

Now I hope some linux script god will reply and tell me I did this all wrong and post an easier way to do this

 

Hello! sorry for my bad English, i'm from Russia...
i bought msi gt780dx-253ru, with core i5-2430m + nvidia gtx570m + 4Gb pc3-10700 RAM + 750Gb 7200rpm hdd then i bought Notebook Cooler Cooler Master SF-19 Storm.
in furmark without it temperatures was 77*, on it without fan 76*
with it and fan on max 68-69*
in aida64 stress testing CPU with/without was difference in 4-5*
i compared result with CM notepal u2, in furmark temperatures was 71*
is it normal result for sf-19? i expected 10* or more... and what can you say about Antec NoteBook Cooler 200, Thermaltake Massive 23 CS Notebook Cooler, Thermaltake Massive 23 LX Notebook Cooler, would they be better?

 

thanks to WhatsThePoint!

briefly:

1. clean install of Windows + IRST driver
2. update with Windows Update
3. install drivers
4. install utils
5. install apps
6. defrag/optimize with Auslogics, full scan with Norton
7. be happy

longer story:

first (re)installation of Win7Home64 apparently had issues. i thought Norton was slowing things down, or something else choking performance of my design programs (Adobe Indesign) -- not cool with a 16GB + i7 powering the box. booting was slow. and even turning on wireless networking seemed to take a few seconds. plus Reliability Monitor showed a bunch of processes shutting down during installation of drivers/apps and IE9, or even when turning off bluetooth with the s-Bar.

hardware checks of the WD drives were a-ok. so definitely software.

WTP suggested that i install IRST *first* instead of like, 5th or 6th or whatever MSI suggested in their installation video.

i did that. but installing from the disc/upon boot also resulted in some processes crashing in Windows Reliability. something definitely not happy with the MSI updates/apps.

so i tried it again. IRST first. but the next thing installed was Wireless Networking. made sure Defender and Firewall were on, and then i downloaded and updated all Windows Updates. once that was done, only then did i install drivers, then utilities and my apps.

Windows Reliabilility started at 10, and it's still at 10, days after. no unexplained crashes. plus, boot-up is faster and performance in InDesign is now on par with my other office computer (Phenom II) -- snappy! with nothing turned off. the difference in that program alone is crazy awesome.

 

What do you guys recommend to do to keep a good time lapse on the battery life?

Im in the office the most part of my time and I use the laptop with battery power untill windows popup the menssage for plugin the AC power, I charge the battery 2 times in a day.
It's advisable to leave it plugged in? or I just Keep doing the same untill now?

 

What you are doing I think is good.

The batteries these days are alot better than a while back.

The main concern would be to those that are always pluged in.The battery should be run down until the popup appears warning to plug in about twice a month.I get the warning with 7% remaining.

Starting with the battery at 100% I can surf the net for just about 3 hours before getting the warning to plug in.

 

More info on the GT783

MSR GT783-625US

Intel Core i7-2670QM 2.2GHz / 16GB DDR3 / 128GB SSD + 750GB HDD / Blu-ray Burner / GeForce GTX 580M / 802.11n / HD Webcam / USB 3.0 / Windows 7 HP

What do gamers desire most? MSI knows best! In GT783625US, MSI not only conducted research with the world-class team Fnatic, but also collaborated with SteelSeries, a leading manufacturer of Professional gaming peripherals, to develop a "gamer's keyboard" never before seen in gaming notebooks. The GT783625US notebook provides you the best gaming experience!

SteelSeries Professional gaming keyboard - Responding to cries from gamers, MSI got together with gaming equipment manufacturer SteelSeries to create a keyboard for the GT783625US.

Not only is the keyboard more rugged, it has a more solid feel and the Windows function key has been repositioned to the right side to reduce the possibility of accidentally striking it when you're hip-pocket deep in ogre blood. In addition, the Ctrl and Alt keys on the GT783625US have been enlarged to prevent miss-hits.

Box Contents: MSI GT783625US Notebook, 9-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery, AC power adapter; Pre-installed Software: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, 2-Year Limited Warranty (including 1-Year Global)



Intel Core i7-2670QM 2.2GHz Quad-Core Processor with Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.1GHz

16GB DDR3 SDRAM (4GB x 4)

128GB SSD + 750GB 7200RPM Hard Drive

17.3" Full HD Non Reflection LED Backlit LCD Display (1920 x 1080), 16:9 aspect ratio

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M Graphics with 2GB GDDR5

Blu-Ray Burner & SuperMulti DVD±R/RW Combo Drive

802.11b/g/n WiFi

Bluetooth

10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 Port)

Multi-in-1 Card Reader (SD/MSPRO/MS/MMC)

Dynaudio Premium Sound System with 4 speakers

Steel Series Gaming Backlit Keyboard 103 keys & Single touch Touchpad

Integrated 720p HD Webcam

Ports: 2 x USB3.0, 3 x USB 2.0, eSATA, Headphone-out Jack, Microphone-in Jack, VGA, HDMI 1.4, RJ-45

Approximate Unit Dimensions: 16.85 (W) x 11.34 (D) x 2.17 (H) inches

Approximate Unit Weight: 8.6 pounds

http://www.jr.com/msi-microstar/pe/MSR_GT783625US/#productTabDetails

 

nice, except the 2,399 price tag. I hope there's a whitebook version of this as well.

 

Price is about what was expected, considering the additions of the SSD and GTX-580M. Aside from these additions and a $500 price difference, same specs as the GT780DXR-446US selling at $1899. Supposedly there will be only one SKU, and only 50 units available.

 

I'm green with envy.

Best of luck with it when you get it,hopefully before Christmas.I'm sure your wife will take possession of the GT780DX on Christmas Day because it's her present,right.

 

THX! Yeah, I really need that thing prior to Christmas, because I need to swap out my 2860QM and 250GB SSD. Fingers crossed!

 

For currently the best mobile card available, you really cant complain about such price.
Itd be interesting to see how its brought down with resellers price and the barebone one without cpu.
Also imo the limit quantity 50 pcs is that reseller's stock only.

 

My understanding is 50 units total, because nVidia only supplied MSI with 50 cards, period. We'll see......

 

From what I heard from MSI today they haven't got the 580M from nVidia yet, ETA for their production to get the card is around December 12th~15th.

 

The ETA for the GT78x with the GTX 580M was mid-late December but as of today info from MSI says it is moved to late Janurary now. The Barebone model currently is supposed to follow much later with the same GTX 580M. The branded version is supposed to be only one model/sku. There is also no info at this time on the qty available for the GT78x GTX 580M model.

 

4 speakers ?!

 

Hello there,
Why not 4 speakers ? , I'm talking about one of the older MSI GX700 Model, there was 4 speakers too (in fact, connected internally in stereo mode) + subwoofer

http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GX700.html

 

Anybody know if I can get my laptop's graphics card upgraded by msi? Also if they did, would it be voiding the warranty?
I want to get it upgraded to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 3GB GDDR5.

 

Hmmmm, information changes rapidly day to day. Looks like I may have to resort to 'Plan'B', and unfortunately this will not put the 580M in Santa's big red bag.

Bad Elves, Bad Elves!

 

No, but you can do it yourself if you know what you are doing when they are available in a few months. And yes it will probably void your warranty.

 

Hi All!

By way of introductions: longtime lurker, first time poster; gaming enthusiast, (not as much as would like to); built a few desktops, 1st desktop replacement; Aquarius, etc.... <yeah yeah whatever>

Let me just say thank you to all the contributors of this thread, a lot of the info here helped me to finally pull the trigger.

That being said, my "baby" is on the truck out for delivery as I type this! Woot!!! Woot!!! Can't wait to take this puppy out for a test run when I get home.

Specs:
MSI GT780DX-215 | i7-2760QM | GTX 570M | 12GB Kingston HyperX | Intel® 510 Series 120GB SATA III SSD | 50GB SATA II 7,200RPM HDD | 6X Blu-Ray Reader DriveCombo | Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6230 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi + Bluetooth | Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit

Though I've been reading as much as I can, with a thread close to 500pgs long, I obviously haven't read everything (yet - grin). I'm wondering what I should do first with my system? Which drivers to install? What utilities do you guys recommend? Any tests I should do to verify functionality? etc... In short, what's the best way to get acquainted with my new.... well... family member! (heh heh)

I ordered the recovery disks along with my system, but I want to recreate them with all the useful utilities and most recent drivers to really create an awesome "recovery point" for future use, if needed.

So what do you guys think? How do I prep this bad boy for some serious use!

Again thank you for everyone's posts! This thread is great!

DestinyDog aka DD

 

I gotta admit...Battlefield 3 on ULTRA sure is a nice way to verify functionality....

 

LOL!

I promise honey, just need to make sure this thing works. It's recommended by the manufacturer. Anyway, gotta get back to testing... <puts on noise-cancelling headphones>

DD

 

New Intel's mobile Ivy Bridge CPU line-up revealed -



Oh man, i smell an upgrade. Anyone else struggling to get one of these ?

EDIT : I wonder why those are xx20 and not xx60. Maybe the there will be second line later, like with Sandy Bridge. Actually i hope not. Theres a lot of features to look forward too.

 

Late January!

Maybe just getting too close to Ivy Bridge GT notebook releases with GTX6xxM and the reason for a very small production run?

BTW,I'm wondering which SSD they'll put in the GT783.

 

Hello, I read the forum alot but did not find any solution which helped.

I have GT780DXR-251RU

It was in a raid and with recovery partition when i bought it.
I deleted raid and make 2 independent hdd`s, intstalled my windows 7 x64 on the first hdd and put my files on the second and was very happy for about 2 month

I do not touched bios, no flash, no firmware changes, even did not entered the bios itself.

One day my laptop stuck at MSI screen with
Press <DEL> to run Setup
Press <F11> to run Boot Menu
Press <F3> to run Recovery

I can only enter the Raid menu when it shows on the screen (Ctrl+I) and after it the screen backs to

Press <DEL> to run Setup
Press <F11> to run Boot Menu
Press <F3> to run Recovery

I removed all the disks (to backup data) and cd-rom, to try without them, but without any result.

I did EC procedures, trying different key combinations (Ctrl+Home and etc) i tryed to make AMIBOOT.ROM and E1761IMS.ROM on fat16 Flash drive.
But without any results. I did not find any recovery procedures for GT780 in the internet.

Please help with the manual. I think service centers have the exact procedure to recover bios ( i hope its a bios )

Or Maybe there is a way to re-create recovery partition to use F3 function?
i did not have any utility wit hte laptop to do this

Thank you forward for your help!!!

 

Once you delete the RAID the recovery partition is gone instantly. you can only rebuild the recovery partition with MSI's recovery DVD.

the problem you are having looks like your primary hard drive is bad, maybe you can post a screenshot.

 

I inserted anothed hdds to do not delete anything on the generic ones

 

After you broke up the Raid array to have 2 independent drives did you reset the bios from RAID to AHCI?

After braking up the Raid array it's good to format all partitions and then delete all the partitions on each drive so you start off with 2 clean drives to install an OS on or use for storage.

Just deleting the Raid array doesn't clean the drives of the files that are on them.

By the time you recieve a new MSI notebook the drivers installed and the ones on the CD are very old.

IMO it's better to do a clean Windows 7 x64 installation with the newest drivers,utilities and software and make a backup if you need one than revovering to an outdated partition.

Most MSI GT780 models ship with WD Scorpio Black hard drives.

WD supplies a free version of Acronis True Image that works for backing up whole disks.All you need is to have 1 WD disk recognized in your system.

WD Support

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/AcronisTrueImageWDEditionUM.pdf

 

Hi,

I know that i broked the raid and i also formated the HDDS ( WD 500GB)
I entered Ctrl+I and change to non-raid mode.
I installed brand new W7 i bought in the shop.
I worked and play for 2 month with this config.

The problem is - my laptop did not boot at all.
I cant even enter bios

 

The screen shots - only 2 screens available to me.

 

Well, I see Ken already has the 580M model listed:

The MSI GT783-625US, Available for pre-order at GenTechPC, $2399.

 

Have you seen the package type. Seems like Ivy bridge Mobile is not compatible with I7 Mobile second generation.
Cheers
Edit : I7 2860 Qm package is 37.5mm x 37.5 (rPGA998); 31.0mm x 24.0mm (BGA1224)
Now I don't know what's happening.
Edit 2: Wikipedia says
Core i7-2860QM SR02X (D2) SR02Q (D2)
Core 4 @2.5 GHz L2 4 × 256 KB L3 8 MB HD Graphics 3000 650–1300 MHz 45 W Socket G2 BGA-1224

 

Dear colleagues, please share recovery images for GT780DXR, i really stuck without them.

Thank you forward for your help!

 

I didnt mean like i will buy the Ivy Bridge or try to put it into this laptop if its what you mean.

 

I meant to swap the CPU if they are pin compatible. And that's why I said that.

 

For anyone who might be interested, I managed to swap out a Synaptics touchpad for the crappy OEM Sentelic touchpad. It works great! It's not an easy mod, and you have to tear you GT780 down to it's guts (violating the warranty), but it is doable.

I use my laptop almost exclusively on my, well, lap. So an external mouse wasn't an option for me. In my 15 years of using laptops, they've always come with Synaptics touchpads. When the GT780 came, I felt crippled having to use the Sentelic pad, and I had to reboot the whole computer a couple of times a day to get the touchpad to stop jumping around. Yes, I tried the latest drivers and registry hacks, but those only seemed to postpone the inevitable daily reboots by a few hours. Besides, my muscle memory is already programed with all the unique to Synaptics proportional horizontal/vertical scrolling, coasting, edge motion, etc - none of which you can do with the Sentelic touchpad.

The stock Sentelic touchpad is based on PS/2, so what you have to do is find an appropriately sized Synaptics PS/2 pad, re-arrange the pins on the connector to comply with the pins on the Sentelic cable stub, install the Synaptics driver, and figure out a way to wipe the grin off your face. I can post more details if there is interest, but it's not a mod for the light of heart.