How to upgrade a MSI GP60 | Intel i7 4720HQ | GTX 950M 2GB | 16GB DDR3 | 500GB SSD | Windows 10 | Gaming Laptop

It’s pretty old and I was wondering how I could go about upgrading it.

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Does the MSI Thin 15 have two SSD slots?

Some one told me it did now google is telling me otherwise.


And what SSD would you recommend me to get.

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Pulse GL76 Won't Boot

A while back my trusty steed just bricked scrolling FB (same day after having power going in and out, possibly relevant?). Doomscrolling one second, black screen the next. There's a local guy that does board repairs. Dropped it off with him. Said power circuit was fried--soldered about a dozen new components to the motherboard, got power to the rest, said one of the CPU mosfets lit up like a Christmas tree. Soldered a new CPU mosfet to the motherboard. New BIOS/CMOS battery. New power supply. Powers on again! Great news, right? Wrong.

Now it will power on, but wont boot. I can go into BIOS, but can't even think about booting windows. Powers on, circle spins a few times, then just freezes here and does not progress. Please help, I don't want to buy a new rig right now, and really want a win on this thing after all the board work (plus I really want to get my data off, but I can do data recovery if I absolutely have to 🥹)

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Pulse GL76 Won't Boot
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Pulse 16 AI C1VGKG Purchased Feburary 2025

I have never had any issues with my laptop. As with any computer all the bloatware had to go.
Any new computer I wipe the drive and perform a fresh install. I have a Microsoft account and One Drive after Windows Install everything restores. Sure I have to install drivers but by doing this I never have any issues.

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Really Bad battery life on MSI summit

I have an MSI Summit E16 AI Studio laptop and even after optimizing every power related windows setting thats ever existed, lowering refresh rate, power plan, turning off gpu, i still am only able to get between 1 and half and 2 and a half hours oof battery life. From the research I've done, most people seem to be getting much better results from this laptop. I also did a windows battery report which told me that the capacity of the battery is still fine, 77whrs out of 80. Can anyone help?

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Msi laptop monitor internal not detected

So I posted a while back about this but still no fix.

Have an msi laptop connected to 2 external monitors.

One via HDMI

Other via USB C

All 3 screens working perfectly until a few weeks ago when I was updating nvidia driver. After this the screen is black.

Now when I boot up my laptop screen msi logo shows on the 2nd monitor & laptop screen totally black.

Tried uninstalling reinstalling drivers in safe mode.

Updated BIOS with usb

Power Ec reset

Not found anywhere in device manager or display settings.

Have it set up as extend on windows P

Everyone said it could be loose cable but my laptop does not move from the stand?

Any possible fixes?

If i factory reset laptop will it work?

Reallt dont want to take it and pay heaps for a pro to fix it.

Essentially its a bang average desktop right now.

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Need help with msi laptop has i7 4th gen and a gtx 860m

Laptop shows msi start up logo then goes to this white dash and stays stuck on this screen, does anyone know what may solve this issue?



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My keyboard is non-responsive sometime

My ASWD keys are sometimes non-responsive. I try to fix it by reloading Windows, restarting the laptop, etc. Those methods work, but only for a day or two, and then back to normal. Those keys only become non-responsive when I'm gaming, so I don't know if someone has placed a curse to make my gaming experience as painful as possible.

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Laptop Design
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Nightmare & Woeful Experience With MSI Vector Gaming Laptop

Hi everyone,

A couple of months ago, I bought an MSI Vector A16 HX (Ryzen 9 8940HX + RTX 5070) for college. I'm a computer science/engineering student.

Unfortunately, it's been a nightmare experience, and I will almost never buy MSI again.

The main issue is that the CPU will randomly throttle down to around 0.55 GHz, making the laptop almost unusable.

I've tried just about every software fix I could find, including:

EC reset
BIOS update
Updating all drivers
Changing Windows power plans
Windows factory reset / clean installation
.

The laptop has also been through multiple RMAs:

First RMA: MSI replaced the motherboard and performed a clean OS installation. The exact same problem returned.
Second RMA: They replaced the entire laptop with a refurbished unit. The issue still exists, though it occurs less frequently.

At this point, I've spent more time shipping this laptop back and waiting for repairs than actually using it.

The seller and MSI have both refused a full refund because it's outside their return window, but it's incredibly frustrating to own a \~$2,000 laptop that I can't rely on for school.

Right now, it honestly feels like I have an expensive 5070 attached to an e-waste computer.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Will I get my MSI laptop serviced under warranty in free?

I bought the Mi Thin 15 laptop 6 months ago, it's heating a lot. I need to get it serviced, will I get it done for free? I live in Navi Mumbai.

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Msi katana A15 hibernation freezing

I brought msi katana A15 (ryzen 7 8845hs + rtx 4050) just 10 days ago and I am facing a problem , after playing (or just opening ) games like fortnight, pubg battleground every time after clearing the minimised windows if I immediately try to hibernate the laptop pressing power button then it freezes , the screen turns off , but the white light of power button does not go off , the laptop gets hot and the battery charge decreases .

Please 🙏🙏🙏 check this on your laptop and tell me what happens for you .

And do another test keep your fortnight game character on lobby and then try to hibernate your laptop.

Please please tell me what happens for your gaming laptop I am very worried with this problem .

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latest firm update makes my pc shut down slowly

until now, before e15m715, when i hit "restart" it would take 5 seconds to close everything, restart and system boot in few seconds. now it has 1 minute of idle black screen in the middle. so after it closes everything it enter a state where it still on and the fan works, just black for no aperent reason. and than it start. thats really annoying... i also updated windows so maybe ist windows stuff? could it be because it checks some memory diagnostic stuff like some amd 7k proccesors used to do? can i deal with it in the bios? i have a good bios experience as i tweak the volts and core clocks (very underclocks and disable 8 of the 12 e-cores).

i have msi ge68hx 14gen inter with nvidia 4080, 32 ram and 5600 memory speed

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Let's play?? Msi GF63
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Secure Booth Disabled, Can't Enable

I have an MSI Pulse 15 B13V.

I installed a driver called Micro-Star International Firmware version 1.0.1.4 (MSI Firmware 1.0.1.4) then after that, I couldn't access my laptop without having Secure Boot Disabled.

But Valorant requires Secure Booth Enabled.

Tried Enabling it, but then I get stuck with an instruction to turn off my Secure Boot.

Trying all that Gemini's telling me to do to solve this, but so far, nothing's working.

Please help, I really want to play Valorant :((

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Best thermal paste for MSI Katana laptops?

Hi

I have just ordered a thermal paste of amazon Arctic MX-6. Is that a good thermal paste for msi katana gaming laptops? I heard negative review from noctua nt h1 that it dries out and pumps out really quickly so i didnt bother with that. Or is there some other thermal paste that are better that you can recomend?

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Are these temps something to worry about?

Hi

For a month ago i went to a repair shop to ask them to reapply my thermal paste.

I got an msi katana b13vgk laptop with a rtx 4070 gpu and i7 i13620h cpu. I heard these cpus are common to reach 90 + c. I opened up the laptop to see if the thermal paste has been pumped out and it had. I just worry about these temps. Are they something to worry about? Because the games i play doesnt crash with this temp and the temp on the cpu goes up an down.

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MSI GF63 THIN won't boot after upgrading ram

I ran into an issue today where I tried to upgrade the RAM in my MSI GF63 THIN. I currently have 8gb before the upgrade and I wanted 16gb so I bought a 8gb Samsung 3200 stick of ram. I followed a video to upgrade and after completing it I screwed it all back in and it wouldn't turn on.

Here's my list of actions for better understanding of what I did:

\- I unscrewed the back and popped it off revealing the motherboard

\- I slotted in my new ram stick and it went in just fine

\- I closed it back up without unplugging or anything

\- then it wouldn't turn on

One thing to note: I did NOT unplug the battery connector on the motherboard, I didn't do this because it simply wouldn't come out. I tried for 30 minutes of wiggling, pressure on different sides, everything I tried. It wouldn't come out so I ensured the laptop was fully OFF then proceeded.

Could the battery not being unplugged have something to do with it? Or does it have to do with the EC reset I was seeing everywhere?

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LG C5 is affecting my Laptops WIFI
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Excited for new MSI Vector 16 HXAI 5070 Ti… ended up returning it because of an unrecoverable GPU issue
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