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

Thanks guys. Just popped the 2 new msata drives in. I created the raid 0 drive by pressing control-I just like how it shipped with the original ssd drives. Quick question- should I have installed the raid driver at the windows installation? I didn't think about it until after it was done installing but it seems to be running good. Was it needed since I was able to create the raid member drive or should I go back and reinstall?

 

RAID driver will be needed during the time of OS installation, but in some cases where Windows provides its own RAID driver then you can skip it until the OS is installed, and then the actual RAID driver itself.

 

I did a clean install of windows 8.1. So since the install was successful we can assume windows used its own correct?

 

Yes, you can check under Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers -> property of the Intel RAID controller to verify.

 

Do you guys know if the gt70 supports wake on lan via wifi? I have the killer n 1202 adapter. If it doesn't and I upgrade to a newer network card like an Intel, will it work?

Thanks

 

Hi gentlemen!

Have a weird problem with external microphone. If I totally uninstall all the sound Realtek drivers - I can see two microphones in the "recording devices". Built in AND Rear panel one.
If then I plug in the rear panel one external mic - the sound quality is very low, quiet - and options like boost are not available...

Now, when I install Realtek HD audio drivers (BOTH from MSI website - aka 2013 version, OR newest version from Realtek website) - the recording devices do not show Rear panel mic at all! Regardless if it is plugged or not (and it obviously does not work).

Realtek sound manager shows that something is plugged in, but no settings so far were successful to actually make the mic work.... Any suggestions?

 

I'm confused what you mean by rear panel microphone, do you mean one on the back of the lid or plugging into the side audio jacks of the machine? Do you have some pictures of the windows audio device manager page to show the different states of plugged in or not?

 

Don't uninstall the Realtek audio driver because the Microsoft generic driver has limited functions.
GT70's audio ports are located on the front left side, and there's one Mic-in, and Line-in.

Image for your reference.

 

Just a question on the side here: I know it is stated on several internet pages (including this thread) that the SSDs used for the GT70 0ne are two Memoright MS 701 with 128 GB capacity (for the models with a 256 GB "Super RAID") - but I'm a bit confused that Memoright only lists capacities of 30, 60, 120 and 240 GB for the MS 701. I see the Intel RST software listing the drives with 119,2 GB (122,073 MB) capacity (which should probably say GiB as usual with Windows and Intel) and that about equals actual 128 GB = 128,000,000,000 Bytes (not all of which is made available to the user of course because of the recovery and maintenance partition(s) so that's not the point). So, which one is correct: Are those SSDs actually MS 701's with 128 GB and they're just not listed anywhere (anymore) on the Memoright pages, or does Memoright list some of their own storage devices with the wrong unit (presuming that their 120 GB are actually 128 GB / 119,2 GiB), or are they not actually MS 701's (e.g. they could be MS 660 or 680's) ..?

 

I think it's just that GB/GiB naming ambiguity.

 

You loose space in two ways, one SSD manufacturers use 128 GB = 128,000,000,000 Bytes which is not what windows uses. Also when you format the drive some is used for the file system, this is not counted as "used" space and is simply removed from the total size of the drive.

 

Yea, I know, Intel's RST software still lists them with their whole drive capacity, no matter the volumes on it, which is only slightly more than 128 Billion Bytes, so it's definitely not 120 GB the way storage manufacturers usually use them - and at the same time, Memoright list their MS 701 with 120 GB capacity, while also listing other drives with 128 GB capacity. See how that can be confusing? I doubt that their MS 701 with 120 "GB" is actually meant to be one with 119,2 GiB (and thus 128 GB), because then their other 128 GB (read GiB) device would have about 137,4 GB and I presume that we all know that's not true.
If those SSDs are actually 128 GB MS 701's, then Memoright's specification sheets are inconsistent (or *maybe* out of date), otherwise they're not 701's.
The GT70 0ne(-446us) comes with two "true" 128 GB devices after all.

Someone should check the BIOS or something, for their identification #s, should be MRMAD4B128-something, and then ask Memoright about them.

Sorry if this seems obsessive or anything, but when I tell someone there are SSDs in my laptop and they ask me for details, I can only either resort to ignorance or try to be as thorough as possible.

 

They are the same thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

 

Not sure what you're referring to though. We all know what a GB is (that is 1 Billion Bytes) and of course a Byte is a Byte in any case, but I was trying to point out the obvious before, which is that 120 and 128 are obviously not the same, nor are GB and GiB. So the main question yet remains, whether the Memoright SSDs used for the GT70 0ne(-446us) are actually 701's that are now unlisted for some reason or not 701's at all.

Because people can't just say they are 120 GB when they're actually 128 GB, and at the same time say they're 701's when Memoright doesn't list 701's with 128 GB capacity. (I have to assume Memoright knows these things at least as well as anyone else.)

 

As a large customer MSI may have had custom versions done, so I would not worry about it.

 

The retail and OEM versions are not the same, that one as Meaker said is a customized version which isn't available on the market that is why the part number MRMAD4B128 cannot be found. But as far as capacity goes, it is going to be true as stated.

 

I wonder, maybe that's why it says GT70 1 (0ne), or rather that they just played on the coincidence.

Anyway, thanks for helping to clear this up a bit.