Official MSI GX640 Owner's Thread

lol alright. that sucks man. im not sure why it would be that loud. hopefully you wont have to replace it. And did you fix your screen problem?

 

It might just be the dvd itself and not the player -- I've found that some are poorly balanced and make a ton of noise (my Office 2007 install disc, for example), while others make no noise at all. Try a different DVD if you haven't already.

 

Hey Guys,

Got a little problem with my integrated microphone.

People on skype will hear me but really low (compared to what the normal level). I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the sound level config (I checked it in the windows panel and it's on maximum level).

What should I do? I can't find the place to reset it...

BTW, I had a lot of things changed recently (I uninstalled motorola, had to reset the whole computer, etc.)

 

Yea screen is ok now. Microphone doesnt work though.. and neither does the camera.

Any info on that?

 

Did you remember to turn on the camera (touch panel above the keyboard)

 

haha ive done that before

 

if you can get the mic to work. ha.

Have you been picking the laptop up near the DVD drive with one hand? Maybe you bent something.
You should take the whole DVD drive out and look at it, there is probably only 1 screw and then you can slide it out.

 

NOPE.. lol
but thankfully the mic is definitely defective so they will still replace it for me

if you tell me theres a touch panel key for the mic too im gonna kill you..

 

Potentially easy fix: are you covering up the mic opening with your hand, typing while talking, for example? And you checked the Realtek Audio settings (not just the windows panel settings)? I never use my mic, and just checked the stock mic settings and found them to be set very low.

 

11.1 drivers are out for ATI cards. But apparently not notebook cards? The site says no if you select Notebook graphics but yes if you select desktop.

 

The gaming thread has the modded version. They have been rock solid on my machine and the new control center is pretty nice .

 

Official ones are out now

 

i have made a bootable hard drive with xp pro os installed on it. I have gotten allmost everything to work, but i can't get xp to recognize my video card as an ati mobility radeon 5800 series and it wont let me install any drivers for it. In device manager it is located under "other devices" and is called "video card (vga compatible)" i have tried to manually install the drivers, but it wont let me. Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

There are no WindowsXP drivers for Mobility Radeon 5xxx series on AMD Web page. Drivers from W7 or Vista won't work in WindowsXP. I guess You have to upgrade Your OS. WindowsXP has no support for DX11 either; what's the point of having DX11 compatible hardware, if You use OS that doesn't support it?

Edit:
You can try the link on techpowerup:
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1932/ATI_Catalyst_11.1_Software_Suite_WinXP_32-bit.html

Maybe this driver will work.

 

Got the RAM heatsinks last week and applied em to GPU and a few to CPU.

Temps are about the same at idle. Myu GPU temps are down a bit which is nice.
Max temps:
Display I/O - 73
Mem I/O - 90
Shader I/O - 78

how do I bring that mem down?

 

THe most effective way that i used was the holes that i drilled, or just take off the bottom cover, but that could be dangerous. i will show you how i placed my copper ram heatsinks by uploading a picture. When i put them on my cpu the temp did not change at all so i just took them off.

 

Hi,

I will try explain this the best possible way...

I received my new laptop this evening I switch it on for the first time, straight away the screen is this horrible red colour with a thin black line running down the right side, but only just half way. I think to myself maybe its the driver as I need to load the install cd once I've finished setting everything up e.g. time, keyboard etc.

It then loads into the windows screen and yet again its this horrible red screen and the windows logo is all blurry and smudgy. Again no panic yet as I think to myself just needs a new driver.

So I'm on the desktop now, all the desktop icons are shaking, very blurry, I check all the settings make sure screen ress is correct I also install the driver from the AMD website. Reboot and still the screen is this horrible red colour when logging in and the desktop icons look blurry and the thin black line.

So is the laptop faulty, have I done everything right? Can somebody suggest anything else? I thought when you buy these laptops all you have to do is change country, keyboard, add password and its done??

Please help

Cheers

 

sorry wrong thread I have a gx660

 

I have holes drilled already, ripped off the uncessary mesh and weird plastic thing. Oh well, these temps are acceptable. Nothing to brag about but it gets the job done.

 

hmm i think its my laptop cooler that really gets the job done though cuz with it on the only time i will reach 82C is if im running furmark maxed out. everything else barely hits 80C. but those temps u got arent really that bad. i would recommend using arctic cooling's mx-4 thermal compound as that durastically reduced temps over arctic silver 5, which is what was used before.

 

That driver didn't work but i did find an msi display driver that works perfectly! Now i have a fully functional xp 32-bit os to boot up from my external hard drive and windows 7 os on my internal hard drive.

 

QUESTION TIME! EVERYONE DROP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND PAY ATTENTION TO ME BECAUSE I WANT ATTENTION!
Alright, I did some digging and found that the CPU socket on the Mobo of the gx640 is the rPG A988A. Then I did some MORE digging and found that the i7 2720M supports the rPG A988 Socket. Is there a difference between the two?

 

GX640 has PGA988 socket. i7-2720 supports FCBGA1224 or FCPGA988. Anyway, the 2nd generation of mobile i-series CPUs requires a 6-series chipset, whereas the GX640 has a 5-series chipset, so it's a no go.

 

wait wait, chipset versions aside, the i7 820 has the FCPGA 988 as well, so does that mean it wont fit inside my GX640? I saw a guy who apparently shoved one in his, so it can be done?

 

Sandy bridge won't work in GX640/740/660. Period.

 

I haven't done it myself, so I can't tell. Even if it fits, I'm sure it won't work. Why didn't You ask the guy?

 

Alright, I have officially given up on upgrading with a sandy (*MANLY TEARS*). But at least I can still upgrade with a 840.....right?

 

Yes you can, you can even try a 940xm, might be tough on the cooling and you'll need a bigger PSU though.

 

Without a laptop cooler using a 940xm wont work.

 

Isn't that what I just implied?

 

That is definitely the exact same thing minerals was saying, gapit, unless you mean it wont POST until you turn your cooler on

 

alright, another question: I want to re-partition my hard drive so that i can have a 50GB partition for windows, and another partition that's composed of all the spaces left over for everything else. So my question is: can I still use system restore to restore my system after I have created those partitions, or do I have to reinstall everything again?

 

Hmm. System restore can mean many things, I'm assuming you mean the factory restore, not windows backup junk.

You have to be careful not to delete the system restore partition which is separate than the windows partition whenever you're messing with that...

You can't really create a new partition unless you resize or delete one, so, which exactly are you thinking? If you delete the windows one then you have to reinstall of course and then you should be using system restore to do it.

The easiest thing IMO would be using a linux live CD or USB drive and run gparted to resize the windows partition to 50gb, then you can make a new one with the remaining space & of the preferred filesystem, like ext4 (kidding) without reinstalling windows.

Back up your important data of course but as long as you don't delete any partitions you should probably be fine.

 

If you have those partitions, they'll be wiped after system restore.

I have the same setup on my 740. The WD5000BEKT has a 120GB for Windows/documents/apps and the remaining is space for Steam (+ the 640GB dedicated to Steam lol).

You'll probably need an offline(not in Windows) defrag or else Windows or whatever software you use can't partition the C drive that low with all the immovable files and whatnot.

 

The system restore partition will not be wiped if you do a system restore.

Are you sure the it will not give the option of restoring to a certain partition?

 

You can use one of the utilities in Hiren's Bootcd to resize your partitions, even the system partition.

 

Laptop doesnt wake up from hibernation/sleep mode, I have to turn it off and on again and get then choose the start windows normally option everytime..

whats going on? I did the online driver check at the msi website and it said all my drivers are up to date except for one, then after I downloaded it it said my current driver is already a newer version


Every day a new exciting problem with this laptop..

 

Hi folks,

I'm thinking about switching the CPU on my GX640. I currently have an i5-430m. Which CPU would you recommend for switching? I'm currently thinking about either choosing an i5-580m or an i7-720qm (740qm?). What would you think?

Thanks,
pan

 

All of those options will work, just depends on your usage for how much cpu power you need.

 

You have to flash your Vbios.

Download it here : MSI Global ? Notebook - GX640

DON'T OPEN IT IN WINDOWS. You have to put on a bootable flash drive ( UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads)

When making a bootable flash, choose "FREE DOS".

When your bootable flash is done, restart your computer to go in DOS. Normally, it'll start automatically (because you made a bootable USB drive). Choose an option similar to "load no driver"

Then, open "flash.bat" in DOS (it could be on the "a" drive as well as on "c" even though if "c" normally represents your harddrive).

 

Can anyone tell how much gain there will be with each of the processors? why is the 640 or 620 marked "i7" even if it only has 2 cores?

 

"i7"is simply referring to the horsepower, i think.

What matters is the one after that- i7-620M, i7-640M, and the i7-xxxQM.

"Q" represents Quad-core, and lack of it means dual.

 

yea, i7 is more of just a branding tag.

What kind of things do you do with your laptop? that will determine how much gain you will see, if any

 

My bluetooth is gone...

 

my bluetooth never works correctly either lol. i think motioninjoy ps3 controller driver screwed it up.

 

Dual Core processor are usually better than the quad due to there higher clock speed and efficiencies unless you are comparing a 940xm. Most applications nowadays does not take advantage of quad (hyper threading as well) which make them kind of pointless. Especially the clarksfield processor (first gen i7s) since they run hotter, drain batteries, and are not optimized for notebook.

 

I can't get the graphics card out

Anyone been here? I can't tell whats holding it in.

 

Erm...after you take off the copper heatpipes, only two screws more...(as far as I can see without disassembling it)

 

Yep........

Its still a no go...


It will slide out of the slot as much as it can before hitting DVD drive screw, but it wont flip up at all.
I also took the keyboard off. No idea whats holding it in there.

 

In the next half year or so I'll have to create some short films for a presentation, so I'd guess there'd be some gain in case of encoding. What about gaming in general?