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Does breaking the warranty sticker will remove your warranty? Planning to upgrade the HDD. Thanks!

 

maybe yes, call your countries MSI centre and inquire to be extra sure, in some cases this may not apply

 

I got mine from Amazon.

 

Maybe it's because your using a Beta Driver. Try download and installing Nvidia Driver 306.97 and see if the problem persists. Then maybe re-install the Beta Driver again.

 

hi everyone..
please i need help
recently i've installed ocz vertex 4 in msi gt 60 (originally was 1 TB of raid 0 500GBx2)
i put the SSD inside the P1 bay (upper side near gpu), it NEVER works fine
always have problem when booting (it stops before the windows 7 orbs shines)
i already applied the "LPM fix" and installed the lates Intel RST, but same thing happens every two or three times i boot up.
more often when i just install something that needs reboot, i never seen it restart properly (always stuck, then i have to click the power button to turn off first, then reboot again. the second reboot will display "disk read error" and the third one finally works). the benchmark also shows weird score



however, in P4 (lower side, next to battery) it always runs fine (although with SATA 2), but i am getting WEI of 7.6 instead of 7.9 (i know WEI doesn't matter much, but it does for me)

i am crazy facing this problem, seems out of idea of solving it

 

Install the GT60 non-RAID BIOS.

Put the SSD in the SATA3 bay which is at the top end of the notebook (not next to the battery), Make sure AHCI is chosen in the bios.

Do a clean install of windows (load the RST drivers in the installer before installing).

 

i've done what you said earlier
clean install, AHCI
what i didn't do is loading the RST while installing windows
does it make difference?

 

Hello all! has been awhile since I have caught up with this thread but wanted to ask a couple of questions and see what kind of input I could get. First I would like to ask if everyone is using the MSI Live Update Tool or do you recommend getting updates elsewhere and where. Also, while using the MSI Live Update Tool I somehow managed to update something incorrectly as my THX TrueStudio Pro is no longer working. I get an error msg stating that the audio device is disabled,not present,not supported by the application. does anyone have a fix for this ? Sound is working fine really but i like the options in the THX ProStudio. Thanks for any help in advance.

 

can any one provide me any data about the bios chip LOCATION on the gt60 motherboard
because i bought new bios chip from ebay but i donot know where it is located ( ther is similar ones on the board)
thank you all

 

anyone having wifi disconnect on windows 8 ?
recently this is happening .. i have to disable the drive and enble it again to work ..
and i cant adjust the brightness anymore .. the s-bar crashes and SCM didn't solve the problem
any thoughts on these problems ?

 

Yes, this is whats going to make it run on SATA 3

 

i did instal intel RST after finishing installing the windows
yes it does run on SATA 3 (6gb/s) but the speed is weird (in reading only), it should be higher

btw since you have the same SSD as mine. could you post some result of crystal diskmark of your SSD?

 

Windows 7 has basic versions of the Intel RST included in the OS so it's not necessary to put in an f6flpy version at the add driver screen for AHCI or Raid bios settings.

If you have a good installation disk,either USB or DVD,then there shouldn't be any problem installing Windows 7 or Windows 8 on an SSD or HDD.

What you'll need to install Windows 7.

USB stick 4GB or larger
Windows 7 Ultimate ISO

Download the Windows 7 Ultimate x64 ISO
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...&txt=English&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13245194375773

Unpack the Windows 7 Ultimate ISO onto the 4GB or larger USB stick using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool - CNET Download.com

After the files are on the USB stick open the files and expand the Sources folder.In there find ei.cfg and delete it so all versions of Widows 7 x64 can be install from a single USB stick.

Remove all hard drives and SSDs from the notebook except the drive you will be installing Windows 7 x64 on.It optimally should be in the primary drive position

Now your ready to install either Windows 7 x64 Ultimate,Professional,Home Premium or Basic.Install the version you have a key for.

Put the 4GB USB stick with Windows 7 x64 in a USB port and press the power-on button.Quickly start pressing the F11 key on your notebook that allows you to choose to boot from the USB stick.

The 1st sceen will be for keyboard layout>OK
Install Now>OK
Licence Agreement>OK
Custom Install>OK
A screen that has disk utilities and Driver Installation should be showing.

Click on the Disk Utilities.A screen will open where you can view all partitions.

Format all partitions that are showing.

Then delete all partitions until only one large full drive partition remains remains.

Windows 7 will now begin to install.

During the 1st reboot in the Windows 7 installation process remove the USB stick.
If you don't remove the USB sticks the installation process may start from the beginning after the reboot.

When the Windows 7 installation completes install the newest Intel Chipset Installation Software.
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel chipset.htm

You should install netFramework 4 and the Intel Management Engine Interface

Download the driver for your wireless card before beginning since you'll need a wireless connection or LAN connection to get on the Internet for Updating

 

How about using the MSI recovery disk? Is it recommendable or clean installation is much better for new ssd?

 

Does any of you (GT70 owners) have some backlight bleeding on the left and right edges of the screen?

 

Most recovery disks were created for/from hard disk drives and are not optimal for SSDs

IMO a clean Windows installation from a USB flash drive is always better than a clone from another disk or image file.

With a clean installation you get to install all the newest drivers,software and utilities plus a fresh MBR.

After you perform a clean installation with all other drives removed and have installed all the newest drivers needed for your hardware to run then run the Window Experience Index to optimize Windows 7 for the SSD.

You can also gain back 12GB of storage space on the SSD by turning hibernation off.

Run as administrator the command powercfg -h off


BTW,for you guys running Windows 8 you'll notice that unlike Windows 7 you cannot access safe mode by pressing the F8 key on bootup.

To gain this feature back in Windows 8 run this command as Administrator. bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy

 

I was actually just going to ask the exact same thing! I have a gt60. I upgraded to the 95% gammut matte screen. I have excessive bleeding on all four sides. What type of sceen are you running?

Is anyone else having this problem with their 95% gammut screens?

 

Persists, still crashing.

 

It's probably not your system.I've gotten the "Display Driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 310.61 stopped responding and has successfully recovered" message a few times on both desktop and notebooks with NVIDIA graphics cards.

So far with 310.70 beta I haven't gotten any graphics driver crashes.
Drivers | GeForce

Choose Custom installation and uncheck what you don't need or want.I uncheck everything except the driver and PhysX and I check the box for clean installation.

Realtek HD Audio 2.70 build 6782 is doing well also.
Realtek drivers Audio

 

EDIT: Still artifacting / crashing.

 

Hi everyone,
I have GT60 currently running win 7 and planning to upgrade to win 8.
Do I need to flash new bios for win 8 (ver 50T)?
If yes, when do I need to flash it? before or after win 8 installation?
Thnx..

 

HI guys,

I am running Win 8 64bit on an early release MSI GT60 with a GTX670M. I was playing AC3 and my max GPU and CPU temps reached 84C. Is this normal? What is the max temps that these laptops and cards can accept before temps go too high and cause damage?

I used to use a ASUS G73JH and gaming temps used to reach 97C or even 100 during hot days but it never caused any damage.

thanks,

V

@Big-guy, I didn't upgrade the BIOS at all. I am currently using stock bios and everything is going well wit win8.

 

Below 90C is pretty good.

 

Thanks for the reply xMar.

 

Any feedbacks regarding latest IRST? Does anyone use this driver (11.7.0.1013)

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22271&lang=eng

 

since i upgraded to windows 8 i cant adjust brightness
i tried everything s-bar,scm, windows settings .. nothing works
i even tried to roll back to old drivers for the intel hd 4000
any ideas ?

 

Hi - I have a GT70 and running whatever audio drivers came pre-installed (Realtek HD Audio Manager and THX TruStudio PRO).

Does anybody know the "best" (I know, subjective, but give me something to start with) way to get the best sound for games?

The GT70 has a woofer kind of thing on the bottom, right? If I set the "speaker configuration" in the Realtek HD Audio Manager to 2 speakers, will that make the woofer not really work? If I set it to 5.1, and do the test, I can hear it try to make a woofer sound but honestly I can't really tell if the built-in woofer thing is doing anything at all, as it doesn't sound particularly better than if the little speakers tried to play something bassy.

Do people generally like what THX TruStudio PRO does? It came by default with Surround, Crystalizer, and Speaker turned on. Does it make sense to have both the Realtek thing think there are 5.1 speakers and then ALSO have THX try to do whatever magic filtering it's doing to make it feel more surroundy as well?

Thanks.

 

I just recieved a new GT70-444us which I planned to upgrade with the crucial M4 256GB SSD drive that I pulled out of my old system. After creating the recovery disks, I pulled out the 750GB 7200 and popped in the SSD. I had to turn off secure boot in the bios and then it recovered the system to the new drive. All was going well, I got a lot of my software installed and then closed the lid (not a shutdown, just putting it to sleep). I came back to it in an hour and when I opened it, it was off. When I pushed the power button, it lit up, the fans came on and nothing else. No bios, nothing. The battery light blinked purple and orange. I held the power button down until it shut off and started it again. This time it came on for a few seconds the same way. Black screen, power light and fan, then turned off 3 seconds later and started again. This time it just sat there with the power light on and fan running and never turned off. Called tech support and they had me pull the battery and unplug, hold down the power button for 10 seconds and then reconnect. It still just boots to a black screen, power light and fans. They said it must be a faulty device. Any thoughts for what would cause this or a way to get the system to boot to bios again?

 

Hi everyone!
I have a GT70 with the GTX 675m and when I am playing games, the GPU usage drops to 40% at 72c, I think this is throttle. Does anyone have a solution? Maybe update BIOS, but wich BIOS version should I update to?
When im playing games at 72c the FPS drops from 45,60 or more to 15,20, because of the throttle. MSI does not answer any of my emails, neither NVidia.
Thanks in advance.

 

Does anybody know how to fix the KLM bug where it changes colors randomly when you select standard and normal colors and let the computer fall asleep only when to wake it up your color you selected has changed. For example, I chose the darkest green then the computer fell asleep, I turn it back on and the color is no longer the darkest green. Instead, the color is lighter version of green? Please help me! How do i fix this?

 

That bios is for laptops that came pre-installed with Windows 8, not for the first wave of GT60 laptops that came with Windows 7

Set it to stereo speaker config in the settings and it should work as expected.

Try removing the SSD and try booting again

GPU throttles only when it thinks that it doesn't need to run on max performance or when the power cord is not connected. Update to the latest 310.70 version. Also are you leaving the game in the middle and coming out to check the GPU usage? If yes then its normal behavior of GPU throttling down when coming out of the game (Alt+Tab)

Never experienced this, try uninstalling the software, remove the installation folders after the uninstall has completed, reboot and then re-install it again.

 

It is on 310.70 WHQL, I know if I leave the game with alt tab, the Gpu usage drops to 0%, I know that, but when I look to the monitor, while I was playing the gpu usage drops from 90% to 30% causing huge lags to the game, any game, always on 72c. If there is any way to disable throttle, or fix this, please tell me. This issue at 72c really pisses me off, MSI and NVidia, neither gave me an answer, or even a response to my email.

Thanks.
P

 

The computer never booted to BIOS with the drive removed. MSI tech support said it was definitely a faulty MoBo. I swapped it for another with the retailer.

 

anybody here with nvidia gtx680m in their gt 60/70 series? would like to know if you have a gpu bracket at the back of your mxm board.. like this one GPU Spreader x Bracket for MXM 3 0B NVIDIA GTX Quadro w Matching Screws | eBay having a hard time taming this beastly card when using directx11 games. although i cleaned up the fan and repasted it with ic diamond

 

No, just the posts in the board, re-pastes work best with replacing the thermal pads.

 

This will be a lengthy post...Hopefully those that I need help from will read and respond. I currently have a Qosmio X505 I5 with a GeForce GTS 360M (yeah it's a few years old) I started looking for more portability because the 18.5" screen is a beast. I finally settled with MSI and specifically the GT60 Series. Now comes my question. I work on an oil platform and pretty much just use my laptop to play games at work or at home with my son. I like to play Skyrim, COD BO3, GTA, Fallout (you get the idea) I do not do any CAD, Professional Photog, or anything that taxes a CPU other than gaming, and running mods on my games. Here are my options and I will defer to you all's professional opinion. GT60 0ND standard with the following upgrades - 15.6" 16:9 1920 x 1080 Ultru Bright 95% NTSC, Green MSI Logo, IC Diamond (because it's free) 20GB RAM (because it's free) 750 GB Seagate Momentus XT 7200 32MB 8GBSSD Hybrid SATA III 6Gb/s, and 120 GB Intel SSD 520 SATA III 6Gb/s (hopefully running the OS), Bigfoot 1202, Clean windows install and burn my recovery disks (because I'm lazy) $2054.99 OR GT60 0NE with all of the same. $2369.99. Will I really see that big of a difference between the two?

 

I'd say take the GT60-0NE. The 680M graphics card is much much more powerful and has a bigger overclocking potential over the 675M. Remember that the 675M =580M, but the 680M is a kepler card and not rebranded.

 

One more time use this ec firmware for throttling issue:
BETA EC for GT60 (16F3) & GT70 (1762)

 

As someone who's never done anything like updating through BIOS etc. How difficult is it?

 

Damn, I have already updated my bios to the last one on msi.com, so I shouldn't try this? Please help me, I don't know what to do, I am frustrated with my GT70, on 72c, the gpu usage drops to 30%.

 

Out of curiosity do people actually update all the MSI software for their laptops? (Not including nvidia drivers) and how do they keep updated since we can't use liveupdate5

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Hi Guys,

Recently bought GT60 i5 version and currently loving it. Although I missed out on reading that the GTX670m isn't kepler lol. Anyway, how do you get the speakers in front to work? I've installed the realtek HD drivers and the THX utilities yet I do not hear any sound coming from them, I only hear sound from the top speakers.

I've configured them to quadrophonic to 5.1 to 7.1 and all do not seem to work. I test it with VLC and set the device to anything above stereo yet no sound.

I am on Windows 8 Pro as well.

Hope you guys can help.

Thanks!

 

I just bought an MSI Whitebook MS-1762 from PowerNotebooks but haven't received it yet. I haven't read about 675M throttling issues until i came across "p.serzedelo" who posted earlier that he was having issues with it. It makes me a little worried, is this a regular problem for this laptop?

Also someone recommended flashing a beta firmware from MSI and it says flat out do not flash it to a whitebook system but some people are reporting that we can use this on a whitebook MSI. Is there a definite answer on if i can flash MSI GT70 BIOS or that beta firmware to my MS-1762 barebones?

 

So i talked to Abe at powernotebooks.com. The MSI whitebook MS-1762 can use the same bios files as the GT70 without issue.

 

This is true for both barebones (16F3 and 1762) can use their respective retail machines bios, though this is not officially supported, I have done it to mine and used the beta EC to reduce the throttle.

 

Ordered Newegg.com - MSI GT Series GT70 0NC-494US Notebook Intel Core i7 3630QM(2.40GHz) 17.3" 12GB Memory DDR3 1600 750GB HDD 7200rpm BD-ROM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX seems best choice for the money over asus,alienware and sager, anything specific problem with GT70 that I should worry about? Got crucial m4 128gb with it, read somewhere that I would need to remove warranty sticker but it wont affect my 1year warranty, can anyone clarify on this?

 

The hatch is user serviceable, however if there is any physical damage and that sticker is removed they will refuse the warranty.

 

Hi, I was recently troubleshooting my msi gt60 and found that I have no ethernet controller driver, and there is none to be found through the windows troubleshooting process. Is there a driver on the msi website, or something in the driver disc that comes with the computer? Thanks

 

You are looking for bigfoot ethernet drivers, you can find them on the MSI website.