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.

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.

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

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

60-65°C on idle

75-80°C on heavy tasks/games

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

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?

# 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.

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 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?