The Official 1722/GX720 Lounge

Thanks guys. I am looking to buy a 1722 and I did not realize that there were stolen ones.

 

Those guys are still going strong on Ebay.

Not many claims for stolen merchandises, I guess.

 

It doesn't really matter. If MSI gave a $hit, they would go after them all.

If you read the thread concerning this, some suggested that the company who had these laptops went out of business and MSI simply wrote all of them off to avoid having to uphold any warranty.

 

So those laptops were just orphaned by MSI, and those resellers are legit? I saw that electrosoft puts in a QX9300 in his ebay GX720. My Gateway bios does not support quadcore, although some of the newer FX do (nobody has been able to extract a bios yet to support quad).

I am hoping to build a MSI with custom parts. Notice that Darth, you never used any MSI warranty but what if you have trouble with the MB or something?

 

I wouldn't consider all of those sellers "clean". Some of them have removed the serial number....

If something will go wrong, then 100% its going to be my fault, which warranty does not cover. So no-warranty doesn't mater to me. If my gx720 were to die, it would be a good excuse to get a better laptop.

As far as bare bones go, the gx720 can't be beaten for its price.

 

Repped. You bought from worldwide electronics, are you recommending them?

 

Some consider him to be not "legit". However, he was the one who I bought mine from and I have had no problems at all.

EDIT: I just installed my qx9300. I put ID7 thermal paste on the cpu and gpu, but kept the thermal pads on the chipset and gpu ram. So far, the idle temps for the cpu is in the 40's (noticeably higher then the t9900).



Anyone used setfsb to oc a quad on the gx720 before?

 

I snagged this one myself earlier today. Found this forum searching around. Has anyone tried using an E8435 chip yet?

 

Hi all,

I bought a MS-1722 ID2 put a T9600 ES CPU in it. Updated Bios to 1.0U. First problem, system freezes when i activate turbo mode with 24% in bios. If i choose 20% i can activate turbo but system will freeze if i go back to normal mode. With 16% all is OK. Max temp i got is 60C. Anyone has a clue about this?.. Thank u for your help

 

Set the ram to 667 in bios and you should have no issues with it freezing at 20% and 24%. Let me know if this helps you.

 

Thanx Nacr05,
With ram at 667 i can overclock at 20 and 24% the problem is that system freezes when i switch down!!. I noticed as well that system is slower with 667. What if i swap to the P9xxx series? they are reputed to be more stable no? In this case i might go to p9700. same speed but less consumption and more stablility. What do u think? or we have a motherboard issue here!

 

what ram do you have, ram is key man, my t9400 i can turn the oc off and on all day with no issue, and im using good ram. sure your fsb raises but your ram speed raises also, mine gains 150mhz, some types of ram dont like that, grab some good ol g.skill, youll be golden.

oh btw, make sure your ram is ddr800, 667 gets angry when you try to oc it, also make sure that you dont use the auto ram speed thing, that caused problems in my case, try manually putting it on the 800 setting and try the clocking from there.

 

creepy update for my own warranty stuff, apparently my notebook part number doesnt exsist in msi's warranty registration thingy, i went there with my part number, and my serial and everything and it doesnt work for me at all.

and the strange part is i emailed msi and they said barebones dont have any warranty >_>.

 

Thanks Automatikjack..
Could be my RAM, 2X2G Corsair 6400 800 "cm4gsdskit800d2" bought from frys. They don't have G.skil nor kington hyperX. I'll try to test with other type. Is the 24% up/down switch working for you?

 

The warranty registration is not for barebone notebook's, only msi pre-configured systems. The barebone part numbers will not be on the registration site.

All the barebone notebooks carry a 1 year warranty, who ever replied to your email is mistaken. If you needed warranty service you would call tech-support and they would setup an rma. Or if you purchased it through a reseller they can setup the rma for you.

 

kms i dont remember what my oc setting is id have to restart, think im doing like a 20% clock but id have to check for higher,

@rk, well its not very assuring that whoever controls the rma email account at msi would say something like they did, makes my warranty sound like nothing more than an empy promise, though i dont really plan on using it, i just wanted to see if my notebook was stolen property or not....

 

What brands of RAM do you recommend? I'm eyeing some OCZ or some Mushkin ram myself. And a 7200rpm hitachi hard drive. Also, will any mini pci e wifi card work in the gx720? (I have one from another laptop, mini pci e form factor, 3 antena connections)

 

New SCM available.

Version: 2.209.0629.004.07

Download location: http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=downloadfile&dno=8465&type=utility

 

I use g.skill.

The only mini pci e wifi cards that will NOT work are those made by HP (i don't know about dell's).

Thanks (I would rep you, but it will not let me )

 

What changes were made?

 

***nevermind***

 

got my other barebone today (im a bit scared to install a wifi card right now lol) it even has the chrome plated subwoofer and speakers! but where is the turbo button located?

 

Its located next to the eco, its an e symbol.. thats the turbo button..

 

Anyone know where I could find that spiffy MSI backpack??

 

I might be willing to part with my spiffy MSI backpack for the price of a similar bag. It's been used once and is in great shape. Couldn't send you a PM, so you can send me one if you're interested

 

erm my faceplate with the touch buttoms isn't lighting up, so i don't think its working. whats wrong with it?

 

You need the system control manager installed..

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloadfile&dno=8465&type=utility

 

the control buttons are still off, and i can't do anything. I can't even turn on my wifi whats going on?

 

What OS are you using, After you installed the System control manager did you reboot? Please let me know. Did you also install this??

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=driverfile&dno=7293&i=0

 

Did you install the wireless drivers and bluetooth and such??

 

im running vista ultimate x64 edition. Wifi card was recognized in device manager, but it says "wireless card must be turned on". I did install system control manager, rebooted, buy the faceplate is stil dark (no leds are on) and i can't turn on wifi. what am i doing wrong?

 

They do stay dark til you touch them to enable. Is it ''wireless card'' hooked up right, do you have the wires right??

 

i touched everything and nothing works. I conneted all wires to their corresponding numbers. bios version 1.0N. i really need wifi working. is there any way to turn it on? is there any way to use turbo without the faceplate? under device manager, something is listed as unknown device. uploaded screenshot of dev manager

 

I am at a loss as my old 1722 ID2 worked right after I installed the System control manager. There is no other way turbo will work, you would have to use set FSB. As for the wireless, I dont believe there is any other way of turning it on. I could be wrong. I never seen this happen before.

 

well thats ed up. what could be wrong? could you pull up the face plate and tell me which sides the ribbons go in? (if its the blue side or the data side)

 

Nvm Got Them To Work I Am God Of Hacking Lol now where did you say that turbo buttom was? I see eco, and e with a dash over it (launchs ie) a camarea, a bluetooh, a p1.

 

The e with the dash is the turbo button, BTW how did you get it working????

 

i wiped the connections with alcohol and flipped them. worked. the e next to the eco doesn't put it in turbo, it just launches firefox.

 

You need to update the bios. It turns that "e" into the turbo button. Mine also came with 1.0N, you need 1.0U found here:

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&maincat_no=135&prod_no=1521

Just be careful, screwing up the bios update will kill the laptop.

Has anyone successfully used setfsb on the gx720?

 

cant update im on vista x64

 

? I use vista x64 as well, the bios update is done in dos, not in windows.

 

By the way ... The IE button becomes Turbo after Firmware update, not BIOS. And one more thing run the *.bat files of BIOS and Firmware. Good Luck!

 

My bad, I did both at the same time and just thought it was the bios.

 

I installed a no SP Windows XP with ACHI off..

Does this mean I need to reinstall to get e-sata going? Or can I just turn it on once I get the SP's on there?

 

sp's should enable esata without an issue, as they are designed to add functionality without a full reinstall needed, just dl em and restart, you should be good, if not, grab yourself a sp1 or sp2 cd.

one thing i do have to say about esata is its not really that useful yet in xp from my experiences, ive had two esata hdds and i will say that its easier and just as fast in most cases to use usb, simply because theres no way to safely remove your hardware and xp detection of esata is hit or miss especially if you unplug the device for another and then switch back to it without restarting, also theres no actual program for controlling esata at the moment since there was the xp patch that removed the option to safely remove sata drives, though i used to laugh and consider the possibilities as xp used to give me the option to safely remove my C: drive.

for example esata detection has been as bad as having to go into device manager and search for new devices at least once, to get the drive to show and then wait for windows to figure out what it is, and as for large file transfers, they seem to be quite slow for something thats supposed to be way way faster than the alternative. given its still in its infancy. but for now, i use it as another usb port.

 

i can't update. it says ask for a 64 bit version. both the exe and the bat do this.

 

I cant seem to PM you either. Toss me a mail if you wish at [email protected]. Remove the underscores from the address, gotta love the bots that search for email addys for spam.

 

Then you are doing something wrong.

Follow this exactly:
http://www.msi.com/html/pdf/How to flash MSI Notebook EC under DOS mode.pdf
http://www.msi.com/html/pdf/How_to_flash_MSI_Notebook_BIOS_under_DOS_mode.pdf

 

ok flashed. Small problem though. When i hit turbo, i only go up to 2.32 ghz, where default is 2.23ghz. bios is set to 24%. whats going on?

 

you're using a quad core, right? If so, then the stupid thing will only increase the fsb by 10mhz, resulting in a very small gain There's really nothing you can do about it.