r/MSILaptops

So I bought this MSI katana laptop from my dads co-worker about 3 years ago for 1k. Today I just removed the bottom case for the first time to assess a rattling noise. It was a small “gold” fitting for a screw in the corner that had snapped due to plastic damage. Which i have attempted to put back in place with super glue. I tried to use a duster and clean it up some, although I don’t know what the dirty smudges on the copper wires would be called or how to clean it.

Also, is it normal for a computer Shop to have a service of cleaning and maintenance check? If I can find one local with decent price, I’m considering getting it cleaned and checked for any issues as I have no knowledge on laptops besides what the battery & fan is.

All advice and Info is appreciated!

Hello, my laptop : PC portable gaming MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI D2XWGKG-001FR 16" QHD+ 240 Hz Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 16 Go RAM 512 Go SSD

I bought it in November 2025 (it's still under warranty), and it's been acting like it does in the video for the past 4–5 months, in almost every game. I've tried all the modes in MSI Center it's the same. There's just the Silent mode (which limits me to 30 fps), but in that mode, the fans don't suddenly kick in.
Of course, I used HWiNFO to check the temperatures, and I think it's a little concerning. When I'm gaming, my CPU temperature rises to 90–100 degrees Celsius (with a peak of 105 degrees)... and Package/ring power limite exceeded and Core Thermal Throttling is on "YES". Even on the desktop, in balanced mode, the CPU is at 60 degrees Celsius.

Could the thermal paste be the problem? Do you have any ideas? I'm also waiting for a friend who's an computer technician to show up, but I might as well ask as many people as possible.

I'm in France and it's about 30 degrees inside my house, maybe that's the reason lol.

I made a post earlier today and now after repasting, I want to know if this is good or what should be changed before applying the heatsink, the paste is thermalright tfx on the cpu and gpu core and the vrms and vram cores have halnziye hy206 thermal putty, I changed around to having putty blobs on the vrams and vrms for when I push down the heatsink, same goes with the paste by putting dots

I’ve been dealing with this issue forever now but my laptop just always now overheats and shutdowns after playing a game for 5 minutes despite repasting many times unless I’m doing something wrong, I switched to thermalright tfx paste too for the gpu and cpu but nothing has worked, I screwed in the heatsink properly and I even turned off turbo boost but it still creeps up to 90+ degrees and shuts down, I don’t know what could be the issue at this point.
The picture above is the laptop after its recent pasting today before cleaning up the smudges around the chips and mess

This is MSI gf63 thin 11 uc. It was working absolutely fine last night. Idk what went wrong today it isn't even opening.

I tried everything. I did put my finger on the power button for more than 1 min but nothing changed. Neither is the charging cable is not working. It's completely dead.

I'm wondering what even went wrong.

A few days ago it used to show this.

"Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart"

Stop code: HYPERVISOR_ERROR (0x20001)

It only lasted on the screen for a sec. Still after researching a bit idts that this is the issue.

I'm a student. All of my important files are on the laptop. I'm really really worried. Pls help

Hi everyone!! Recently i drove about an hour away for this absolute steal.

Model is an MSI GS76 Stealth 11UH, with a 3080.

total price was 530 bucks.

Full specs:

GPU: RTX 3080 (pretty sure its the lower vram variant)

CPU: i7-11800H

RAM: 32GB 3200MHz

SSD: 1TB Phison (?), replaced by my 1TB optimus 5100 (reused)

ask me anything!! (i forgot to post this by the way)

immediately going to repaste & clean up, got some ptm7950 arriving in a few days

Bought it off ebay earlier this month,it overheats and turns off. Also has low cpu and gpu ussage. msi vector gp68 hx 13vh

After using this laptop for 6 months as my first gaming laptop, I wanted to share my thoughts.

First of all, I don’t regret buying it at all, even though it has a few flaws.

Mine is the i7-14650HX/RTX 5060 model with a 1TB SSD, and I bought it for $1,200.

The display is a 1440p 165hz ips screen its really nice, with good colors and you still can make it look vibrant with the intel app. I’ve been using it for both studying and gaming, and I haven’t had any issues with the screen.

The speakers are a bit quieter than I’d like, but performance has been excellent. This laptop seems to let the RTX 5060 Mobile run at its full power, and my benchmark scores are consistently above average. Even during long gaming sessions, temperatures never go above 86°C, and I’ve never noticed any thermal throttling.

Battery life is about what you’d expect from a gaming laptop with a power-hungry CPU. Using Eco Silent mode in MSI Center, I get around 4 hours (sometimes a little less) when studying or watching videos.

I haven’t really used the webcam much, but it’s a 720p 30 FPS camera, and the microphone sounds good. The keyboard is also solid—nothing to complain about.

The only thing I really dislike is the build quality. The laptop is made entirely of plastic, and if I put it in my backpack the wrong way, I can actually see the corners flex or separate slightly when I take it out. Despite the plastic construction, it’s still fairly heavy.

Overall, though, I’ve been very happy with it, especially considering the price.

Sorry if my writing isn’t the best—I don’t post very often.

So I here have a ge63 raider rgb 8re that had a dead screen and busted hinges and due to budget decided to halftop it. Here's what I found as an issue: it still boots fine but I cannot display bios/boot screen on an external monitor, it only wants to display on the internal display which again is so messed up that I removed it. I want to be able to access the bios.

If yes, what type of ssd should i get? Or do I need an adapter or something?

Sorry new to msi

Should I? Or should I not..

Hello guys, I hope someone could help me out here. I booted up my MSI THIN GF63 laptop like normal because I wanted to produce some music but I noticed that my volume slider was locked on 0. Every time I put it back to full volume it automatically went back to 0. So I asked an AI what I should do and the first it suggested was to do a reset : hold your on / off button for 45 seconds. So I did just that and then the problem started: I got stuck in the bios.

When I first came in the bios I saw the time and date was wrong: it was in 2022 and I can’t remember the date and time but it was wrong so I adjusted it to the current time and date. Then I click on saved and exit but instead of booting up windows this pop up appeared, I click on okay and I’m back in the bios. If I click esc + enter and restart, I get the same pop up and get back in my bios.

I explained the situation to an ai and it said I should turn off the security boot. But when I go to the security boot settings, I can’t change any of the settings there, they are all locked and I can see that secure boot is active and I can’t disable it.

It told me to create administrator password and restart it again, I did that but I still cannot change a setting in the secure boot settings.

I just want to get out of the bios and boot up windows again but I’m stuck in this infinite loop and I was hoping someone had a solution and could help me out here.

Additional information:

• This is the first time I am seeing this screen and never had this problem before.
• This is a rental laptop
• I have installed windows mods to make the os look more modern and run windows 11.
• I only understand the basics of a computer

Some advice or suggestions to get out of this situation would be much appreciated <3

Went in to clean off my fans and check on everything, and I found this strange crack in a little piece of metal. Have no idea what this chip is or does, but the crack had me confused, mostly by the shape. It's like a central hole with spiralling cracks around it. Anyone know if it'll cause any damage to the laptop or not?

so im new in this subreddit so pls be kind to me 🥺

anyway this is my current rig, one of the cream of the crops Llano V12 (nonRGB 😭, but my older brother gave it to me) cooling my current laptop, MSI GF65 (not the GF63) Thin 10UE