***The Official MSI GT 70 w/GTX-680M Owner?s Lounge***

Iv managed to get a auo one for £60 New, not bad in my opinion. Can't wait to fit it. It looks really nice.

 

That's the standard price for a panel in the UK so not bad at all The 90% AUO right?

 

Yep hopefully it will be good

 

Should be swap in, it's the panel I use in my machine and for a laptop display it's not bad.

 

Thanks for your help on it meaker. After Christmas I am looking at building a desktop gaming system and if I go ahead with it I will use one of the ultra wide ips monitors. They look amazing.

 

I looked at those but stuck with the asus swift myself because I like high refresh rate gaming. They do look interesting though and not a bad price, just double check response times before jumping in

 

Yer I was looking at the gaming one Asus make. It has a 2 ms refresh rate. May even get one to use for now on the gt70 when I feel like having a hard core gaming session. Using 3d vision is another idea I been thinking of.

 

I've been debating over getting an emitter to use with the display or not myself. I think I will at christmas.

 

So if I get the nvidia 3d vision glases and emitter I can use it on standard screen or any screen? I used 3d vision at Euro gamer and it was a cool experience.

 

You need a 3D screen as well and MSI has not offered one before.

 

I see, could I use a 3d tv?

 

Hmmm 3D is an issue all the time, specially with laptops. On one hand, you need your monitor/tv to be supported by nVidia 3D software. Next is the emmitter and active 3D glasses. I haven't been keeping up with it because it was such a hassle I gave up on PC on it, but I think the nvidia solution requires an active set, so I am not sure just any 3D tv could work.

Anyways you can always try free software for 3D on PC, there are some options to try out and enable both passive and active 3D that do work with TVs. I tried a couple and indeed they worked, but back then my 3D display meant playing at 720p 60fps or 30hz 1080p 3D so I rarely used it. Nowadays TVs can support 60fps 3D at 1080p so its pretty cool and fluid.

So anyways you need: a 3D capable monitor, 3D glasses (Active vs passive depends on which solution you will use), and 3D software for your PC which will enable the actual 3D content. Some TVs/Monitors allow forced 3D modes in case you already have 3D content (like watching side by side videos on youtube). In the case of nVidia's 3D solution you need compatibility too (with your monitor etc).

 

Received my screen today and they sent me the wrong bloody one, it was an 02 v.0.

 

It was hard to set from my desktop to 3D TV so eventually I just had it output in regular 2D then used the TV's 2D < 3D conversion. I tried it on plasma TV's and that could have been the problem as it could have not been telling the GPU it was 120hz (speculation). LCD TV's should get rid of that problem if indeed it was the issue.

 

I'll give my tv a go it may work as it is a very good expensive set and only a year old. It has all the glases etc So may do it. Any ideas what software should work with the 680m?

 

Many TVs only actually support 3d this way so that's the only way you will get it working. You don't really get true 120hz TVs.

 

The 120Hz/240Hz in the TV is upscaling but input source is always stuck at 60Hz so you can't really do that type of 3D.
I think two-frame type may work but the resolution is cut in half.

 

Yes a TV which would take in and display a 120hz signal would be a true 120hz TV, since there are no sources for this that are usually connected to a TV they don't support it.

 

Most "old" generation FHD TVs support at max HDMI 1.3
Only the newer ones get HDMI 1.4 and only a subset of the 3D profiles. So for both revisions you get stereoscopic 3D at 720p 60fps or 1080p 24fps. The problem lies with the TVs firmware, how much info gets sent to the transmiting source.
My neighbour's 42" FHD Samsung TV does 3D at 1080p at 24fps (as written on the manual) and at first it didn't get recognised as 3D capable with my GT60 (the option was greyed out). After I updated its firmware things started working correctly and we could play 3D content without problems (720p for smooth gaming however ).
Older TVs don't support upgrading their firmware or often its complicated (for those without USB ports).

 

I am pretty happy with my HDMI 2.0 hdtv, it does 1080p at 60hz

But as several have said, most content is locked at 60hz anyways, so you can't really use the 120hz even if your TV does support it. Unless you hack into it and force different signals.

You can always force your output on your computer to do a side by side or any other particular type of 3D and then on your TV put 3D mode in the same type. I have done this successfully before but it was quite a hassle. For nVidia 3D mode I had to install a modified inf for my monitor to be recognized by nvidia's control panel and I was able to play games like crysis etc, but on 720p due to the HDMI 1.4 limitation.

 

Iv got my auo 90% fitted and I am so happy with it, the sharpness and colours are so much better than my old screen and glossy looks so much better as well. Thanks meaker. Only thing now is what do I do with the old screen. I feel it's only fit for the bin now.

 

Put it on eBay as there are always people who may have a need for it.

 

Meaker what are the calibration settings you use for your screen?

 

My GT70 is randomly powering off. I have no clue what it is. I do see some iastor messages in the event log, but those are shortly after the shutdown, so not sure if they are just part of a normal boot up sequence.

Does anyone know where I can find updates for the RAID driver? Or well, for all the device drivers for that matter?

 

If its actually shutting down rather than just randomly dying then it's most likely a virus. If its randomly going off completely then it's most probably hardware related, battery, power pack or even the ram.

 

It's randomly powering off. It's odd. It leaves nothing in the event log at all. I did a controlled reboot and saw the same iastor alert I mentioned previously. I get the unexpected shutdown alert from Windows with a timestamp, but nothing other than that in the event log to shed some light. Sometimes I can go a week without a single failure, and then today I had two. I'm not really sure what I can do to troubleshoot this. It's getting kind of annoying.

 

You know sometimes it can be better to send it to a good repair company as they have all the gear to test hardware faults etc rather than you spending loads of time and money trying to fix it yourself. It sounds like one of them problems you will be chasing for weeks and getting no where.

 

Good advice, I think, and I thank-you for it. Does anyone know, however, where I can find a driver repository for this model?All I can find on MSI website is for newer models, I can't seem to find anything for this model...

 

I've updated to Windows 8.1 The only device not detected was the bluetooth driver. Does anyone know where I can get drivers for this model?

 

For the Bluetooth device normal Windows drivers should work

 

I have an unknown device in Device Manager: ACPI\KB9XRADIOBTN\5&39E10E87&0


Do you know of a utility or something I can use to update all my non Windows drivers, like the RAID driver, BIOS, etc? I seem to recall something, but I cannot find it..

 

Most want you to pay these days but I'm so sure you can get them off the msi website, that's where I got them last.

 

Is the web camera driver installed?

 

This is Airplane mode device.

 

"This is Airplane mode device."

Sorry, not sure what that means. This is the only device in Device Manager that is not recognized. Yes, my webcam is working fine as well.

EDIT: Ah, I understand. This is the driver for the keyboard button to toggle off bluetooth and wifi. So, not really something terribly important then...

 

Guys - are there any news on upgradability with 980m? (or ish)

 

I believe the 970M and 980M are slot in upgrades if you get the heatsink from the latest model or mod your own. You will likely want the latest edition system bios.

 

Well looks like that will be my plan to do next.

 

Anyone know where i can buy a keyboard? my A and 4 started to have issues being recognized =(

 

EBay or try going direct to msi for parts.

 

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If I try anything of that sort - I no doubt will need to buy a new computer afterwards

Do you guys know if anyone in London/UK might attempt such a procedure, and at what cost? (circa?)

 

Most shops will tell you it can't be done most likely lol. Laptop upgrading the gpu is not common knowledge.

 

Yer it's a specialist job, a lot of pc repair shops around here still believe you can't have a separate gpu in a laptop lol.

 

Anyway while I'm on the forum does anyone know where I can get the disk drive bezel in the UK. Only place I can find one is on eBay in America and by the time I pay postage and import tax it works out about £40.

 

You mean the little bracket to hold it in place? Majster or your reseller may be able to help.

 

Any reason the new Samsung evo 850 msatas won't work in this? I want to slap 2 500's in there.

 

It should work without any issues. Samsung SSD has great compatibility with many systems.

 

So long as it's the 2.5" variant you should be safe.

 

Due to slimmer design, many 2.5" may also include an adapter to slightly increase thickness to provide better stability while SSD is mounted.