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  1. 1) After flashing to the 780M OC Edition rev 2 vbios, instead of the Intel RST splash screen that normally appears before POST, I get a new splash screen indicating I flashed the vbios using Tech Inferno software. I'm assuming this is normal, but how can I get the Intel RST splash screen again or the default one.

    2) A 50 MHz on my 780M gave me 38 Mhz OC instead, a 90 MHz OC via Nvidia Inspector gives me a 78 MHz OC instead when running Unigine Heaven. What's the reason of the offset? GPU-Z also reports that the GPU didn't throttle. Why?

    Thanks.

    That's the best splash screen there is ;)

  2. Thanks for the suggestions.

    I just bought some copper shim from amazon. Not quite sure how thick I needed so I just estimated but it will take a couple of weeks to arrive..grr.

    Other ideas that I came up with: (let me know what you think)

    +Put a wad of electric tape/rubber above the heatsink on the GPU so that when the laptop is reassembled, the base of the laptop will be pushing on the wad which will push the heatsink more onto the GPU.

    +Put a thermal pad on the GPU.

    I don't know if putting pressure on the heatsink will do anything, it depends on the heatsinks design. It´s better to use a copper shim with thermal paste rather than a thermal pad because the heat dispatch will be greater that way.

    Is there thermal pads on the memory and vrm's? In that case you'll probably be able to make better contact by replacing them with thinner ones.

  3. So one thing that has puzzled me in my repasting adventures is why putting more thermal paste between the GPU and heatsink lead to better temperatures (but still high 80s low 90s in gaming and throttling at 97C for really heavy games) . I also noticed that when I took the heatsink+fan off the GPU, there would be a lot of paste between them and it didn;t look like it was squished out very well which could possibly mean that the GPU wasn't really touching the heatsink.

    I wiped off the paste, and put the heatsink back on without paste, and I could see a thin gap of air between the GPU and heatsink. I'm guessing my temperatures would be a lot better if the GPU was actually touching the heatsink, so does any one have any solution to this. ?

    Is there any thermal pads on the card? If so they may be too thick and lead to bad contact between heatsink and GPU die. In this case you can sort this out by replacing the thermal pads with thinner ones. Or add copper shims to the heatsink.

  4. Have you read this?

    @srw134:

    I tried to mod the BIOS for my GX60 by myself and I think I did everything right but AFUDOS always told "error 18, not able to start a secure session" or something. I tried with /RECOVERY and whatever it did or not looked dead to me. So I rebootet -> black screen.

    So what I noticed then:

    When turned on for a very long time (10min?) the USB-Stick-LED started to show some activity. I read more about these BIOSes: I have an AMI Aptio UEFI Bios. You need the same version of BIOS as you already had and it should have it version-number as name. For me E16FKAMS.D06 as filename for the BIOS (4mb filesize).

    I don't know what helped as I had both a CD with nothing but this BIOS-file and a USB-Stick. Start the notebook and wait. If really nothing happens then it's dead. My notebook showed HDD-activity at the very early bootstate -> something was alive! After some time the CD started to run (again, maybe 10mins after booting).

    They also say that holding Ctrl+Home before turning on and holding for some time until you recognize that something inside is working should force this blind recovery.

    I don't know what it was but after 10-15min with CD and USB-Stick with the BIOS-image it rebooted into the BIOS with a new menu for recovering BIOS (recovery mode). Pressed enter to flash this BIOS -> reboot. Everything like it was before :)

    Hope this helps you and maybe someone else. I didn't expect it to take THAT MUCH TIME. About 10-15mins to load that BIOS-file from CD (i guess it was the CD as it was running...) and loading it. Maybe this blackscreen after AFUDOS filename /p /RECOVERY was the same "blindflashing" and I, stupid as I am, cancelled it by rebooting -.-

    Does anyone know what to do with this Error 18 of AFUDOS?

    Is /RECOVERY bad?

    Did anyone use AFUWIN? I killed another notebook once by flashing from Windows. But it was an ASUS-tool and I read a lot about these.. After it's killed, you read a lot, yes -.- 70€ for a new flash... So I'm very carefull now :D

    http://forum.techinferno.com/msi/1839-msi-g-series-unlocked-bios-46.html#post50102

  5. Well I was able to flash it. But unfortunately I have seemed to have created a $1200 Paper Weight in the process. IDK what I did wrong actually. I switched it to legacy. Flashed the BIOS (It did it in like 15 seconds). The laptop shut its self off before I could do anything. Turned it back on the come to a wonderful Orange light and Black Screen. I unplugged the CMOS for about 20 seconds. (At least I assume I unplugged it.)

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]8765[/ATTACH](I think this is the CMOS battery)

    I was unable to do a Hard-Flash I never heard the beeps that should take place.

    What if I start up the laptop with out the Cmos plugged in at start up?

    Hmm, did you flash a BIOS for win8 or win7? Yes that's the CMOS battery, nothing will happen if you try to start without the battery.

    Download your original BIOS from MSI and put it on a fat32 USB stick without renaming it and then try a blind flash.

  6. Sorry i had no idea about the different between CMOS and EC, i knew CMOS controls clock and things and EC controls power and fan, been searching for last 1 month trying to solve this CPU Throttling i have read weird things, even CMOS and EC reset, was justn trying to ask about EC, how will you reset EC right after flashing? you need to boot into windows to shut down?

    You could just enter the BIOS after restarting and choose "discard changes and shutdown" and then do the EC reset.

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  7. What do you mean ?

    Sorry if thats a stupid question... I'm getting a dell card, I'll do the tests over the weekend. So what should I focus on? What do you mean locked at 135+ ?

    Kepler mobiles have the core locked to 135+, you can't pass this limit with overclocking software. You'll need a modified VBIOS in order to do it.

  8. Actually these guys over at MSI forum suggest resetting your EC by removing battery right after BIOS flash. i dunno why?

    Yes but that's not a CMOS reset, to reset the EC just remove the power sources (PSU, battery) and hold the power button for a few seconds.

  9. I have a few questions, can someone answer?

    1. what does update.bat file contains? i downloaded a bios from msi website and it had flash.bat, i opened with text editor and it showed " AFUDOS.exe bios.version(not .rom) /blah /blah (5 parameters)" bios name doesn't have .rom there, can someone verify?

    2. After BIOS is flashed and dos is returned, should i hit CTRL ALT DEL to restart? how do i shut it down? since i need to shut it down to reset CMOS, do i have to start windows to shut it down?

    The BIOS extensions doesn't have to be .rom it could be .whatever, usually it's the BIOS version.

    I just press ctrl + alt + del when everything is done. Why would you need to do a CMOS?

  10. I have a few questions.

    which 770m card works best for MS-16F2? Clevo, dell, msi...? (so far i have heard that clevo works)

    and will the hdmi work?

    which is the best 770m seller on ebay?

    I use a Clevo in my 16F2 and everything works flawless. And it works for others too.

    Performance wise every 770M should be equal as they are all locked at 135+ core, let's hope that Svl7 will modify a VBIOS so we can utilize the full potential of these cards :)

  11. I've repasted a couple of times and I'm still not quite sure how much to use. It seems like temps get better the more you paste you add.

    Also, Idk what else to do but when I run Msi kombustor / Furmark burn-in tests, my GPU will start throttling at around 95-97C after about 3 min. However when I'm just gaming, GPU temps stay around 70-80C

    Using Furmark is like bashing your GPU with a hammer, it will only do harm.

  12. Yes, I did it.

    Can you tell me more about blind flashing?

    I read about BIOSes in GX, GE, G (I think that they are similar) and owner's GX60 did this same mistake.

    http://forum.techinferno.com/msi/1839-msi-g-series-unlocked-bios-46.html#post50102

    As the boot block should be intact a blind flash should work, name your current BIOS file E1756IMS.514 or the name of the original BIOS file and put it on a fat32 formatted USB pen drive, power the notebook on and repeatedly press ctrl + home and wait until it starts to access the USB drive, which can take a while.. And then wait some more.

    You'll notice if it works or not but be very patient.

    RMA said that motherboard has been damaged and they can repair it for 300euro O.O

    What I should do now? Im not sure that mobo has been damaged after "interference bios" how they call on it.

    Yeah they will just swap the motherboard for a new one, if the blind flash won't work you can order a programmed BIOS chip for your model and go to a workshop and they will swap out the chips for a decent price. The chip itself should land on 10-15Euro and the swap should cost around 100Euro whoch will safe you some money.

    DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

    If you feel confident enough and know how to use a soldering iron it's fairly easy to do it yourself, what I think is the safest way to avoid lifting any pads is by cutting of the eeprom's legs at the base of the chip with an exacto knife - remove the old chip and put the soldering iron with tinted tip to the legs remaining on the mobo and remove them one by one.

    Then you'll have to clean the surface with solder wick and isopropylalcohol - add a small amount of new solder to the pads - put som flux on the surface and the legs of the chip and place the chip perfectly and solder the corners on opposite sides and then solder the rest of the legs.

    Clean once again with isopropylalcohol and you're done.

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  13. Hello th for reply.

    I have two 8gb Elixir 1600mhz ddr3 11 11 11 28.

    On stock bios i can change BCLK on this procesor for over 3,55 ghz in xtu! but i don't change any others values :(

    It is possible to unlock them?? or up RAM frequency?

    Best redgards and thanks for help!

    Still no, the multiplier and frequency are locked. You can force the turbo to have a longer duration but that's about it.

    If you want to OC your RAM I think you'll need kingston hyperX in order to do so.

  14. This might be a stupid question but how do you determine if you have a Haswell MSI generation. I have an MSI GT70-ONE 276US, does mine have this, and if not could I possible benefit from a more powerful power brick.

    You have ivy bridge which is the third generation intel i processors, i3-3XXX, i5-3XXX, i7-3XXX. Haswell is the fourth generation intel i processors, i3-4XXX, i5-4XXX, i7-4XXX.

    To be able to determine if you could benefit from a more powerful PSU I'll need to know what your current one outputs and which CPU you have.

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