Alright

I have been battling this shit for the last 13 hours

I closed my laptop last night after a discord call

Open it this morning, it's restarted, alright

I go to enter zoom, all fine, I go to talk- nothing - I plug in my headset and try with that mic - nothing

I don't even want to recount the amount of bullshit I've tried so far

My problem is I got this :

The playback remains dead silent during the sound test despite the level meter moving, there's likely a breakdown in the driver's ability to route the microphone's audio to your speakers or apps. Try running the hardware and devices troubleshooter to see if it can detect this specific routing problem.

MSI Center says the mics are working perfectly

The speakers are working

Except Discord gets no input, recordings get no input, the damn base windows sound settings check GETS NO RECORDING

I've done resets, reboots, rollbacks, uninstall reinstall

Absolutely nothing has fuckin worked

I'm at wits end

The mics are fine but the endpoint is fucked and I don't know what to goddamn do

I restarted windows audio and Windows audio endpoint in services and that didn't fix it either

It all says

This device is working properly

And MSI diagnostics says it's great

And yet still

I can't record or talk ANYWHERE

Hi guys, is this temp normal for idle for this model?

60-65°C on idle

75-80°C on heavy tasks/games

when i put it in balance mood it spikes to 80 but if i put it in eco mode it stays low

Just got this laptop 5 days ago and the stock Delta 120watt charger died. I ordered a charger but I need to use the laptop. Can I use lower wattage chargers? Or Type C charger?

Conceding my power adapter has died and trying to source a replacement for my gp65 leopard. No issues with finding adapters that match most the specs and size, but trying to find one without a pin in the barrel connector is proving tricky (waiting 2 weeks for delivery would be undesirable).

I've seen on some websites that certain models had adapters with pins in the barrel. And the connection on the laptop size has a hole for a pin. Would it be a terrible idea to see if a barrel with a pin works?

I tested a MSI Crosshair 16HX with RTX5070, Ryzen7 but only 16gb ram. Dota2 works fine on its own, but if I also want to have discord and Chrome up at the same time the game will get stutter lagg. Is 16gb simply not enough ram in 2026?

I got fed up of MSI Center. Takes ages to load, runs 8 processes, using 600MB+ of RAM. So I built Wattkin, a tray app that does the stuff I actually care about:

• Live watts in the tray
• Charge limit from 10–100%
• Battery health and calibration
• Performance and fan profiles
• Auto-switch on plug or unplug
• Keyboard backlight control
• Mic-mute and MSI keys working
• Hybrid or integrated-only GPU switch

It has 1 process, uses 20 MB of RAM and is free, open source, no account, no telemetry. I've only tested it on my own laptop, so I'd really appreciate hearing how it goes on other MSI models and what you'd want added: https://github.com/CoppingEthan/Wattkin

I have used AI assistance to build this, and Wattkin talks to the laptop through the same firmware interface MSI Center uses, so it needs no driver and keeps working after MSI Center is gone. You can remove MSI Center, MSI NBFoundation Service and MSI Center SDK competely and only use Wattkin.

Hello all! Posting late but got a good deal, Second Hand (Used) MSI GP65 Leopard with RTX 2060 At Rs 35k INR around 1 months ago.

# IS Halnziye 2610 Suitable For HP Victus 16 ?

# Like it's thickness would be good fit for the thermal heatsink that's what's wondering in my mind like will it fit if anyone of you might have used this putty let me know.

# Also Attach the photo of internal vram chips where thermal putty is to be applied

# I serviced my laptop in a local shop but i extractly know they have used thermal paste instead of putty even that too super cheap one i just want to ensure i applied it on every chip which requires it so please attach internals picture with putty and thermal paste applied on it.

It's my first ever msi laptop, any advices?

my fans do not and will not spin while on balanced even if its running hot

i do not remember altering the fan curve and if i have i cant for the life of me find it to check if i did ._. please help a girl out

Hi everyone,

I forgot the BIOS password on my MSI Alpha 15 B5EEK (board MS-158L). The password is requested when I try to open the BIOS. After 3 wrong attempts the system locks up and I have to hard reset, which gets annoying quickly.

What I’ve already tried:

Removed the CMOS battery.

Unplugged the AC adapter + CMOS and left everything disconnected overnight.

Battery reset button on the mainboard.

Basically, I've tried everything I knew and none of it worked, so the password must be stored somewhere other than the CMOS. Maybe Nvram.

MSI support quoted me around €70+ for a BIOS flash or pw reset. I’d like to try it myself first. I have the official BIOS from the MSI support page and a FAT32 USB stick ready.

My questions:

1.Since M-Flash is only reachable from inside the BIOS menu, is there another way to flash this model (Windows tool, forced/recovery flash via USB)?

2.Does a flash actually clear the supervisor password on this board, or is it preserved?

Has anyone been through this with an Alpha 15 or a similar MSI laptop? Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

I have an MSI AMG Motorsport Mercedes 18 Stealth where the screen started doing this. Is this the screen going bad or is it some connection problem? When I tap the back of the screen or when I move the lid back and forth, sometimes the screen "flickers". One time I moved the screen, that dark vertical section went away then returned after a few hours. Any suggested fix?

Hey folks, I’m hoping to get some help with an issue I’ve been experiencing.

I recently got a 1TB Samsung SSD but it seems that my MSI GS63 Thin 11SC laptop can’t recognize it. Or rather- it seems to recognize it but when I check my storage settings it is greyed out. However if I check the storage properties in windows 11 it shows there is 1TB of storage even though it doesn’t show the drive in file explorer.

I’ve looked into the basic BIOS trouble shooting steps for this problem but haven’t had any luck with getting the drive to be recognized or un-greyed out for setup. But I’ve disabled secure boot and VMD is also disabled and those are the main things that should supposedly fix this issue from what I’ve found.

It’s worth noting that the battery in my laptop is cooked and won’t power on unless the charger is plugged in at all times. I got it 2nd hand so I knew about the battery and have a new one coming in. but I know the person I got it from quite well and know this computer was well taken care of and that the only known issue is a non functional battery. And yes, the computer was wiped and had the bios settings restored to default before being handed off to me.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated and if more context is needed I’d be happy to provide it in the replies. Thank you!

A couple of days ago, I was in a game when my entire laptop froze, the screen went black, and after a little bit, the screen would come back on, my night light would appear to be off, even though it's still toggled as on, and the game would either stop working, or close entirely on it's own. This has happened 3 times now, and I'm not sure what's going on and not sure how to fix this, if this is something I can fix on my own, or if I need to take it in anywhere to get it fixed.

My specific laptop model is the MSI Vector GP68HX 13VG and I've had it for nearly 3 years.

I got the Raider 16 Max HX B2WJ from Micro Center on sale last week, so far it has performed great. I was doing updates and whatnot and wanted to update the BIOS so I downloaded it from the support page on MSI (latest is E2651IMS.113). When attempting the update it gave me the error "Failed, wrong image format 11". After failing again I reached out to Support. They said, "that means you downloaded the wrong file, you need this one"(it was the exact same one I was using so I told them that). So they asked me what version I have. For whatever reason the BIOS that came with the laptop was T2651IMS.14B. They say they have no records of that version, "you must have bought a return cause that's a custom BIOS", "if you didn't install it then someone did", and goes on to say that I need to RMA it to load the correct BIOS or return it to Micro Center which is just nuts. The laptop was clearly brand new, never been opened, not resealed but they seemed to be convinced I was lying or something.

TLDR; I was able to install the E2651IMS.113 BIOS by enabling BIOS downgrade (RMA my ass). But what is the deal with the BIOS that was preloaded on the laptop? When I Google it I can't find any info. Just wondering wtf? Everything is working fine after the BIOS flash.

Recently I had to replace my thermal paste and while doing so, the black wire on the big fan snapped. I need help finding a replacement for the wire. The model is MSI katana 15 b13 Vfk

After more than one year, EC Controller is finally here. A Qt C++ application for Linux systems which provides a intuitive, simple and feature-rich GUI for the msi-ec kernel driver. All the msi-ec attributes are supported. In addition to those, the custom msi-ec kernel driver includes support for USB Powershare, Keyboard Backlight Modes change, GPU/CPU Fan curve support and Keyboard Backlight changes notifications to userspace. On KDE it also maps the Performance Mode and Rotate Screen keys making them behave like on the official application.

This is developed specifically for Fedora KDE but should work on any compatible desktop environment yet some features might be missing.

EC Controller is an independent, unofficial open-source project. MSI is a registered trademark of Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or supported by MSI.

More information on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/Fede2782/EC-Controller