~GX660(R) Owner's Lounge~

to me seems like its graphics driver/directX conflict. Have you ran trough latest windows updates yet? Does that happen when you try play games?

 

It happens randomly, while surfing on firefox or just in windows. I have no games installed currently. Also, all windows updates have been done.

Btw, during these problems, there have been 3 nvidia updates and I have installed those.

 

its flash player what's causing this then. try disable hardware acceleration for firefox, also disable hardware acceleration for flash and try again. could also switch to opera browser for test

 

Nvidia? What gpu did you change to? If it's a generation 5xx fermi then downgrade to 314.xx drivers as latest drivers crash when flash based softwares load (eg. browsers, standalone programs etc.)

 

I changed gpu to GTX460M because my HD5870 failed since I dropped my GX660 from my bed Actually, this pc is not even MSI, a company called Monster in Turkey, imports these machines, puts Monster logo on them and sells them for affordable prices. The change operation of gpu was done by Monster technical service already.

Thanks both of you for your helps.

Edit: Now I have another question Are these temperature values normal while surfing on firefox/chrome? (never launched a game or CAD software)

http://i.imgur.com/d49eguw.png?1

 

Hi! Is there any way to make Kepler cards work on the GT663R? Maybe a GPU bios update without optimus?

 

clevo 770m should work not dell

 

Yes the 770M is the only one to work (the 765M does not seem to want to either).

 

Sorry for double-post but can somebody answer me? Aren't these temperatures too high while surfing on the net?

http://i.imgur.com/hQJmpoq.png

 

^^ temps are great IMHO hardware acceleration, flash content pages do tax GPU and CPU big time so expect sometimes your temps to go lil higher some times due to that, and dont get surprised

 

THe GX660 is the bomb.

 

It seemed too much for me, thanks. What if I flash vBIOS below? Am I exaggerating?

VGA Bios Collection: Asus GTX 460M 1536 MB | techPowerUp

 

If it works the way you are now leave it be. Don't mess around with vBIOSes. You risk bricking your card. Also that is for an Asus notebook. Different manufacturer than MSI. What if the GX660 doesn't support it? You will get a black screen and need to blind-flash your 460m to the original vBIOS or, worst case, throw it away and get a new one.

 

Yeah the asus vbios is a likely brick as their "cards" can be very different.

 

OK, then. Also, I haven't experienced any BSOD since 2 days. Just this high temp. values get me down . 15-16 °C higher than it used to be.

 

Just to confirm. 7970M from euro com (clevo) HDMI is working fine in my friends gx660r. He is also using undervolted vbios from 1.05 to 0.975 to manage the temps during high load

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Hey GX660R owners!

I have a problem with my touchpad. I replaced the two HDDs and as part of the replacement i updated the bios with the modded unlocked version given in the thread (cause of SSD <--> AHCI issues). I installed Windows again and were able to work with the touchpad. But now the scrolling feature is kinda disabled. Ich cannot scroll anymore. I installed the synaptic driver from the msi web page but the touchpad is declared as a mouse with 2 buttons so i am not able to change anything according to the scrolling feature. Anyone has an idea? Hope i was able to describe my problem with my broken english ;-)

Greetings!

 

guys, help, just got clevo 7970M for my gx660 and installed but getting black screen. I flashed dell vbios and still getting black screen. I have some visuals on external monitor through VGA but there's artifacts. Tried clevo vbios and no success.

 

Maybe damaged vga.

 

Hi, here's some clips and images on what I experienced.
bios screen - YouTube
bootup - YouTube

all these are from my external screen. my main screen always stays black.

Do you think this is vbios problem or card problem?

 

Hi guys,

I've recently replaced my HDD to a 250GB Samsung 840 Pro.

After flashing the BIOS with the file provided few pages back in this thread I still encouter the following problem...
Like 2 out of 10 times on powering on the laptop, the BIOS does not recognize the drive on which the OS is installed.
It tends to 'disable and enable' at the same time causing the boot order to be messed up, what in the end leads to my problem.

I've tried to replace the SSD by placing it in the other slot. Same story.

Any advice which could help solving this issue?

Thank you for any help.

 

Hey there fellow, did you by a chance try to alter advanced sata port settings on which SSD is installed? You should enable sata hot-plug and something else, now cant remember what it is, its been talked about pages back too and you should be able to find quick and easy about it

 

Are you talking about SSD driver support in the unlocked BIOS?

 

not SSD driver(but DRIVE - if you made a typo), but more the settings to make all SSD's work in GX660*/GT660*

googled myself few pages back and heres what you need to do:

In BIOS setup -> SATA information -> Switch On "HotPlug" and "PortMultiplier" for the port where the ssd is installed, Make sure Drive mode is set to ACHI and it will all be fine after you save&exit

 

It's only available in unlocked BIOS.
You have to change "Hard Disk Driver" to "Solid State Drive".

 

for GX660 its different, and I am talking about unlocked bios, I unlocked few myself for this model

 

yes that is a faulty vga card bro...

 

^^^ nope, not necessarily! May well be just bad vbios version flash. Had such experience with past 560m when fitted from dell machine and tried to make it work had to go trough 3-4 different vbioses of same card to make it work and had similar bad imaging (knowing of course GPU was perfectly fine before moving from DELL to MSI) give a try few more vbioses

 

I've tried more than 5 vbioses if i remembered correctly (dell's 015.017 with different clocks and voltages but never tried the overvolted ones, clevo's 015.019 & 015.022). all with the same results. I did checked the checksum to ensure redundancies. As of now, I put back my 5870M because I thought my laptop's broke that's why is displaying that. but my GX660's fine. The one who sold me the card claimed that it worked on M18x r1 but not on his M17x r2.

 

I think he sold you a faulty card.

 

Thank you for the reply,

Unfortunately but I do not have these options available after accesing the hidden settings (SHIFT+ALT+CTRL+Insert).
Instead like in this post: http://forum.notebookreview.com/msi/524083-gx660-r-owners-lounge-144.html#post8240849 it looks like here: http://i.imgur.com/Dtvb44u.jpg?1

I assume that I probably did a mistake at flashing the BIOS. But I do not know at which point.

I download the BIOS flash files from MSI webstie, chop them into the pendrive and just overwrite the file of original BIOS with the modded one remembering about renaming file name. The flash process itself goes smoothly but with the same result every time...
Thank you for any help.

 

well, once you flash unlocked moded bios, you no longer need this "sucky" keystroke to see all the advanced hidden features anymore, you just get in with [DEL] and off you go you've got to browse now well trough whats there its somewhere in "Advanced Settings" tab/field, you will go trough everything till you find that and then you will get set. Just take your time and go trough everything slowly till you find what I have described needs changing in setting

good luck and report back to us after

 

Still nothing. Tried to flash one more time but it looks like the old bios is still there. After pressing DEL there is the 'normal' menu with very limited selections. No extra functions, no extra fields, no extra items to expand or to choose from.
Slowly giving up hope on this one...

 

Im nearly sure you DIDNT flash the modded bios rom somehow if you did - you would get so much extra options in your menu you would be surprised suggest you re-download moded bios and retry freshly again

 

You have to flash the special BIOS in order to have those options open to you.

 

Thanks guys! I'll give it one more shot. This time, I'll try all vbios I know of.

Edit: I mean, all working 7970M vbios I can find.

 

Just to clarify one simple thing: does this bios posted by you at this link - http://forum.notebookreview.com/msi/524083-gx660-r-owners-lounge-327.html#post9390949 - count as the modded one which I am looking for? Sorry to be a pain.

 

this is what you want: V3_BIOS_GX660R.zip - FileFactory

 

I give up. No change. Thank you for your effort anyway.

 

I guess you have paranormal activity going on around you when you try flash my modded bios and at the end it stays still locked epic weirdness!!! can you post screenshot/photo of what the message you get after you type cmd and it completes the flashing of the sys-bios?

thanks

 

Something like this: http://i.imgur.com/RWlvHwi.jpg

Thank you.

 

Ok i think i know why it doesnt work. It is a sentelic touchpad not a synaptic touchpad. Is someone able to upload the driver from the driver CD for me (cant find my CD) or anyone got a link for the latest sentelic touchpad driver for the GX660(R)??? MSI is just offering the driver for the synaptic touchpad of the GX660 :-/

 

bomber87, here you go. touchpad driver

 

Perfect! Thank you

 

Solved. Found another post of yours with different file attached. http://forum.notebookreview.com/msi...d-bios-xmp-support-thread-43.html#post8934080 ...
Works like a charm.

thx

 

Anyone have a keyboard to sell? I need a replacement, maybe you guys can recommend where I can buy a cheap one? Not necesarilly original. as long as it fits.

 

I have keyboard for sale

check my signature for sale stuff on NBR there's a link - clickidy click its authentic genuine original keyboard in excellent shape!

 

Hi UltraGSM, I also experienced what freakyguy59 experienced. Seems like the bios you posted is the locked GX660R bios. But your post on the other thread does the trick. Nonetheless, thank you for that.

 

quick one will toshiba gtx 560m work in the laptop?

i see its going cheaper on ebay

Tested Toshiba Qosmio X775 NVIDIA GTX 560M MXM 3 0B Laptop Video Card N12E GS A1 | eBay

just need to play bf4 on high at 1336x768 , i only saw afterwards this mode has the crappy screen

 

IIRC the toshiba cards are a bit different and don't work. You can upgrade the display with the right cable.