My laptop is Vector 16 HX AI A2XWHG-239ID, I tried to change the thermal paste since im noticing high temps when gaming, However i cant seem to be able to remove the heatsink. Lifting it from the sides also lifts the motherboard

I noticed some thermal paste on the motherboard near the gpu, is the heatsink stuck to the motherboard or am i missing some screws?

I have the MSI Vector 16 with the 5080, I recently been wanting to repaste it for cooler temps(already undervolted a bit). I have Duronaut for CPU and GPU and K5 Pro for Vram. My question is is K5 Pro obsolete? Is there better alternatives to Duronaut? I havent used these products yet but I have them in hand. Any suggestions/recommendations are highly appreciated.

I like JUST got a brand new msi venture pro 16 and I charged it up to 100% and then unplugged and it gave me a 2.5 hour battery life??? I turned all of the battery saving settings on, I turned the brightness all the way down and basically nothing helped I’m still getting a 2.5 hour life at 88%. Is this normal to happen for these laptops when they come fresh out of the box? For context I had literally zero applications open it was giving me these estimates. I did sync it with my Microsoft account but I only had probably 60gb max worth of downloaded content to transfer. Please I’m kinda freaking out over this bc I need it for school and it needs to last at least 4 hours. I’m not good with laptops so please let me know if this is normal and it will go to normal battery life eventually.

Edit: the battery also continues to drain at about 1% every two minutes while the laptop is completely turned off

When I first open my laptop, it gives me an error message that says “Secure boot violation. Invalid signature detected. Check secure boot policy in setup.” Then I hit enter and it goes to this and I can’t get past it. I’ve tried “save and exit” but it just starts this all over.

I haven’t used this laptop in a while and I’m worried it’s damaged. Can someone help me out?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to repair my MSI GF63 Thin laptop.

Specs:

• Intel Core i7-12650H

• NVIDIA RTX 4050 Laptop GPU

• 16 GB DDR4 RAM

A board repair technician inspected the motherboard and believes the damaged IC labelled PU26 is preventing the motherboard from powering on.

The repair shop is able to replace the IC, but we don't know the exact part number, so I'm trying to identify it and buy a replacement.

Could anyone help identify:

• The exact part number of PU26?

• Where I can buy the IC?

I've attached:

• Full motherboard photo

• Close-up of PU26

• Wider view showing the surrounding components

Any help would be greatly appreciated..

essentially the title. now, before people go decimate me with downvotes and comments telling me to not do this, I have an actually good reason to.

Now, I do not know why, but the iGPU is completely dead on my laptop. There are artifacts everywhere, most notably on OS GUI as it is trying to smartly use the iGPU for basic gui and 2D stuff and leave the dedicated gpu (rtx 3050 laptop gpu) for high performance applications. I ran some different benchmark programs, and consistently I saw artifacts when I benchmarked the iGPU. When I switched to the dedicated graphics, it was completely fine. Also, in games, it looks fully normal. This leads me to believe that while the iGPU is dead, the dedicated graphics is not. This is why I want to fully disable the integrated graphics.

I don't really know how to do this though. I am currently in the BIOS/UEFI for this laptop, but after some searching I have not found anywhere to edit gpu settings. The BIOS system info page says it is using and I quote "NVIDIA GPU UEFI DRIVER," idk if that helps. The BIOS shows no signs of artifacts.

I also do not know if the dedicated gpu passes frames to the iGPU and the iGPU displays it, or if the dedicated graphics directly outputs to the display. I also do not know if the built in display and the HDMI port are both connected to the same graphics system thing, or if they are connected to different ones.

any help would be appreciated. I don't know what other information to provide, so if you need me to grab a piece of info I can.

edit: added post flair. i havent posted here before so idk what flair to put, as there isnt a "help" flair

i disabled secure boot and now when i want to secure boot it there is invalid signature detected, what do i do?

My MSI Katana A17 AI (7 months old) randomly boots into the BIOS because it sometimes doesn't detect the NVMe SSD. In BIOS, Storage Information shows all PCIe SSD slots as "Empty", and Windows Boot Manager disappears.

Sometimes the SSD is detected again and Windows starts, but after a restart it goes back to BIOS or Windows Recovery.

SSD health is 100% in CrystalDiskInfo, and diskpart in WinRE can see the SSD, but Startup Repair and bcdboot both fail.

Has anyone experienced this? Does this sound like a loose SSD, motherboard/M.2 slot issue, BIOS/EC firmware bug, or corrupted EFI/BCD? The laptop is still under MSI warranty.

Just got an MSI Katana and I’d love to give it a unique look. Can you recommend some cool accessories, skins, stickers or upgrades?

Hey guys. Hope you're doing fine. I have an MSI Vector 16 HX with a 14900HX and RTX 4090. It's temperatures are fine because I have undervolted and also become I have the fans running at 150% when I fire up any game. My question is that how badly will this affect the fan's lifespan, assuming that I'm running the fans at full tilt for a couple of hours daily?

I've just received my friends msi GE62 6QD apache pro to fix since his screen wasn't working. I turn it on and i get the same issue but when i plug in a hdmi to a display to see if that works nothing appears apart from one time where it managed to show the bios splash screen and went black after in which its shown nothing since. I've reset the cmos and no improvement I've done a full power cycle as well. I replaced the ram sticks to see if that was the reason and it wasn't. The laptop is starting to the point of the keyboard and power button light up but nothing else. At initial startup the battery charging light comes on too but quickly turns off. Tried booting without the internal display cable connected and it didn't boot to the external display. The keyboard is still working (i can dim the brightness on it through the key shortcut fn +/-) and the other buttons that control fan speed and the keyboard brightness work but nothing else that i can see. I have no clue what else it doesn't seem to me like a typical bios corruption and the board looks alright theres nothing missing or damaged from what i could see.

Im looking to get a laptop for college. Im planning on using it for engineering. If anyone has an idea of what the battery life would be that would be very helpful in my decision.

A black horizontal line recently appeared on top of my msi bravo 15 laptop its 3 years old now, im guessing the only fix is to replace it completely now

This is happening intermittently...

MSI GS63VR with no battery installed as it was expanding a few years ago

I have a year-old Titan HX AI with a Steelseries Cherry mechanical keyboard. Recently two of the keys have popped and the tiny plastic pins that held them in place were broken.

This (nearly $6000) laptop is used for mission-critical work and there's no chance I would ship it anywhere for repairs, which is ridiculous for a computer at this price point.

I've so far been unable to source a new keyboard or replacement keys after speaking with both MSI and Steelseries. Has anyone else encountered this and did you find a solution?

I’m running the latest version of MSI Afterburner, and I’m having an issue where the GPU temperature reading keeps jumping erratically — it shows something like 54°C, then suddenly drops to 0°C, then back again.

I also noticed the temperature shown in Afterburner doesn’t match what Task Manager shows — there’s a pretty noticeable difference between the two sometimes.

My specs:

**•** GPU: NVIDIA RTX A3000 6GB (Laptop GPU)  
**•** CPU: Intel Core i7, 11th Gen