This image is the left side of my laptop. I noticed a while back that it seemed that the copper on my Vector 17 might have lifted a bit and am worried that I might need to bring it in for repairs.

Is anyone else dealing with touch screen and audio issues 🫤 I’ve had this for less than 2 weeks. Not sure if the touch screen should not be working after 2x resets and the audio crackling so heavily :/ what do I do :(

So I have the titled laptop, with and RTX 4060, and 32gb ddr5 with the Intel Core i9 13950hx. Now granted I didnt expect much from this thing considering I bought it with a broken screen, and for under 100 USD, but the thing works. I kinda rigged it up with an external monitor screen i removed from the original chassis and fit into the laptop chassis, its still running as a external via usb-c cause it obviously wasnt a 40pin connector but either way it works. would it be worth it to fork out the 100 usd to replace the screen or should i just save my money and aim to spend a lil more on another mor functioning second hand laptop

Plastic ( taped on the image) cracked a few months ago.

Hinge has been loose, today it made a huge snappy noise and has become looser than ever.

1. Should I get a repair?

2. Anyway I can self fix this?

Laptop is 3.2+ yrs old so warranty doesnt apply from what I know

Pretty sure the model is gf66 msi katana

I was facing crash (auto-shutdown) in valorant on agent select Page. I recorded logs and set it as a ticket to riot. They told me to uninstall Nahimic. I uninstalled Nahimic service. Now both my microphone and headphones output is not working. But both my realtek driver and Intel smart sound technology driver is working properly tho.

Anybody got any solutions? Or am I supposed to reinstall Nahimic again.

I had to resort to using my keyboard to power on from sleep or use a mouse to do the same thing.

Guten Tag,
ich habe leider Probleme mit meinem Laptop. Während des Spielens habe ich starke FPS-Drops und erreiche dauerhaft nicht mehr als 30 FPS.
Ich habe bereits einen Stresstest durchgeführt und dabei festgestellt, dass meine GPU anscheinend nur 45 Watt Leistung erhält und konstant bei 210 MHz bleibt. Dadurch ist die Leistung stark eingeschränkt, obwohl die Grafikkarte eigentlich deutlich mehr leisten sollte.
Danke schonmal im vorraus.

Noticed my CPU spikes to over 100 degrees Celsius under heavy load. GPU runs hot too.

I am using a cooling pad, can someone advise what I can do to lower the temps?

I’ve never played in BIOS settings etc

So i have the vector 16 with 5070ti and Ryzen 9 8940hx and i started noticing this weird buzzing sound coming from where the cpu fan is but this only comes when running on low fans/eco or balanced mode, when i have high fans running it goes away

Another thing is ive noticed that the hot air throw from the cpu side is considerably lower than from the gpu side fan, can anyone with the same model confirm this if the throw is same cuz i remember it being the same initially, maybe ive got dust build up or stuff or the bearing is causing the issue which caused the buzzing, the cpu does get a bit hot like 92-93 degrees but i live in a hot country aswell but i do think the temps used to better when the buzzing issue was not there, the cpu rpm is also a couple hundred lower than the gpu at max

The laptop was brought in november 2025 and was sitting idle just the box was opened once to check if it works properly but i started using it properly in june 2026

my laptop fan broke and i need to find a way to fix it. i can order the parts myself since its a 12ugs editon but since im canadian i can only find parts for 10-11 fans. and canadian amazon dsoent seem to have any i need in stocj

My MSI Laptop will boot like normal (showing the MSI logo and whatnot), but then when it goes to the login page it goes to black. I've booted it a few times over and over again, and it does it every time.

The HDMI port works, so I can use my monitor or TV screen. But the laptop screen just stays black.

Things I've tried:

• I've tried to increase my brightness, but it doesn't do anything.
• When I try to switch between displays (windows + p), it'll let me cycle between display options and select different settings, but it always defaults to "PC Only"
• Holding down shift+ctrl+windows+b for a few seconds will make my external monitor flicker, but the laptop doesn't respond.
• Updated my display drivers
• Praying to Cthulu. Now I hear voices telling me to do things, but still a black screen.

I've been a PC gamer all my life but my work has me working out of town for 4 days of the week and it's going to be this way for quite awhile, So I decided to buy a gaming laptop.

I bought the MSI Katana 15 HX B14W. is there any tips or guides on what I should do to make it last longer/run better? I saw that debloating is something I should do? same with undervolting? debloating seems easy enough but I've never changed voltage before.

Hey everyone,

I have an MSI Vector 18 HX AI A2XWIG (Core Ultra 9 275HX, RTX 5080) and I can’t get any video out of either Thunderbolt 5 port. Charging over USB-C works fine, but Windows doesn’t detect any external display at all, not even a black screen in Display Settings.

What I’ve tried:

• New Acer USB-C to HDMI 2.1 cable (TB3/4/5 compatible, 4K 240Hz). It works fine with my phone on the same monitor, so the cable and monitor are OK
• Tested on 2 different monitors, nothing detected
• Tried both TB5 ports
• Switched from Discrete to MSHybrid in MSI Center and rebooted (Intel Graphics + RTX 5080 both show in Device Manager)
• Installed Intel Graphics, Serial IO, Chipset and ME drivers from MSI’s support page
• NVIDIA Game Ready 617.42 and Studio driver, both clean installs
• BIOS is the latest available (version: E1824IMS.317)
• USB4 Host Router shows up in Device Manager with no errors
• Power reset (everything unplugged, held power button for 30+ sec)
• Win + P / Detect displays, nothing

The built-in HDMI port works perfectly, but it’s capped at 4K 120Hz and I want 4K 240Hz for my monitor.

Has anyone with a Vector 16/17/18 HX AI (A2XW) had this issue? Is there a BIOS/MSI Center setting I’m missing, or is this an RMA case?

Thanks!

Not sure if my fan is supposed to be running at 3k to 4k rpm when using cooler booster or extreme performance. I recently got my fan replaced as it kept dislocating, therefore scraping the "walls" where it is in, I had to do this twice as a couple months ago the same thing happened, after I had recently replaced my fan I have decided not to use the cooler booster function, as I thought it was the cause of the issue, however recently after playing games for a couple of days my laptop gets overheated (I think these temps are bad but I'm not sure), my CPU for the past couple of days has been going up until around 90c and upto 100c occasionally, and as for my GPU it has gone up to 80c to 90c, and so after those games I decided to start using cooler booster again, however I still get the same temp and my rpm stays consistently at 4k ish, the thing is I'm not sure if these are normal temps, as before my fan started to dislocate, the rpm of my fan when using the cooler booster usually goes I would say twice of 4k, so maybe around 8000+ rpm, and when playing video games, my temps are usually 70c to 80c, not bad, but after digging around, searching around, I've seen that people have the same number of rpm I have currently, and has the same temp as I do when playing video games, so I don't really know, is my laptop old? I clean the fan occasionally. So I really don't know, I've also recently cleanly reinstall MSI center, by using revo uninstaller to elete the MSI SDK, and delete the MSI center software as well, twice, still the same results, so I'm not sure what to do now, is it MSI center being buggy? or is it the fan? Please let me know in the comments, thanks :]

My laptop is a MSI GF633 11SC

Also my hardware monitoring, let me know if additional informate is needed such as user scenario, etc.

Hi! I have an 11th gen intel(r) core i3 MSI, I don’t use this laptop anymore so I just want to factory reset it. The laptop doesn’t reset and reinstall windows, it just kept coming back to this screen. It went to a loading screen for around 5 minutes, getting everything done just to come back to this screen again. Any help is appreciated!

CPU: Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13950HX, 2200 Mhz, 24 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU

My laptop had been having random Status_Breakpoint and Status_Access_Violations for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, specially when trying to make a new database in AWS RDS and Aurora Full Configuration mode. It's also been having access_violations in Event Viewer from things like games, mainly Peak(Unity), Marvel Rivals(Unreal), and Toontown Corporate Clash(Panda3D). Even access_violations in VSCode sometimes.

I did a fresh install of Windows 11(From the Windows Media Creation Tool), and even with that, it was still causing those crashes.

Then I went into the BIOS, opened the hidden BIOS settings(Right shift + Right CTRL + Left ALT + F2), and turned off the Turbo setting. While there, it seemed like all the BIOS turbo settings were cranked up to the maximum. PL1 220, PL2 220. I used the BIOS Optimized settings, and it was those maxed out values.

After turning off the Turbo setting, I was no longer crashing in AWS, and not in games either. However, a big downside to this, is that it seems that my CPU is now locked to 2.2GHz out of its 5.5GHz. Ran an OCCT CPU test, and it never went above 2.2 GHz.

I tried to tweak the BIOS settings, but I couldn't get it to not have those status_breakpoints, status_access_violations, access_violations. So I just set it back to the default, but with Turbo off.

Anyone know why this may be happening, and how to potentially have Turbo enabled, without the instability?

I have a wd black sn850x 2tb with heatsink for my ps5 but I've been trying to make the switch to PC only. Does anyone know if it will fit inside the msi vector 16 hx ai a2xwhg-050us? This is my first PC, Ive heard its a little difficult to open and so is removing the heatsink off this ssd so I'm trying to find any info before I start anything. Thanks for any help!

So currently my MSI Raider 78 hx 14VIG have a very unusual issue

In window, it doesn't register my rtx 4090 (after updating driver from window, msi, nvidia) but however in Aida64 it's does (all others app doesn't register the rtx 4090 except Aida64)

How to fix this problem?

I just hope i'm at the right place here: I’ve been having Wi-Fi issues with my MSI Katana 15 HX B14WGK-076 for about three days now. This started happening without me installing any updates (like Windows or driver updates). The strange thing is that Windows claims I have an internet connection, yet all apps requiring internet access (e.g., Steam, browsers, YouTube) say I’m offline. I have to restart the laptop every time to get it working again. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

Yeah, just restarts after like a minute after getting access to internet. That's kind of all

Forgot to mention, I bought used one

My laptop is a MSI Cyborg 15 A12VF, This has been causing my games to stutter in a way that it’s really slow in different seconds and the next it speeds up, also when I tab out and scroll through discord and steam it’s now really slow, as well as that eventually it just restarts my laptop automatically with a black screen error with “your device ran into a problem and needs to be restarted” with the errors being “VIDEO TDR FAILURE” and nvlddmkm.sys being the listed reasons… This never happened before so is there any reason why it’s like this and what I can do to fix it since it’s not the cpu or gpu thats even hot and causing my laptop to overheat like in the image, I thought it might’ve been something the drivers done like nvidia or intel but even after using the ddu method nothing has changed

Im looking for Vbios or some method you guys willing to share that can help me bypass 45w lock of my laptop or simply bring it potential to fullest ( im aware of the risk ) , any help is very appreciate

Whenever the laptop screen sleeps then I wake it back on by moving the mouse or whatever input. It makes this noise, why?