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1. System Specs:

   * Laptop: MSI Katana 15 HX B14WFK

   * CPU: Intel Core i7-14650HX

   * OS: Windows 11 Home Single Language

   * BIOS Version: E1587IMS.103 (Build Date: 05/21/2025)

   * Software used: ThrottleStop 9.7.3 and the latest Intel XTU.

2. The Issue:

I'm trying to undervolt my CPU to lower temperatures, but I cannot apply any voltage changes within Windows:

* On ThrottleStop: In the FIVR window, I can adjust the Offset Voltage slider (e.g., -30.3mV), but the Offset column in the top right table stays stuck at +0.0000 (it doesn't apply).

* On Intel XTU: The Core Voltage Offset slider is locked at 0.000 V and shows a yellow lightning bolt warning: "Undervolt Protection is enabled and will prevent voltage from being set below the boot-time voltage..."

1. Troubleshooting steps I've already tried (No success):

I unlocked the Advanced BIOS menu (Right Ctrl + Right Shift + Left Alt + F2) and disabled all known barriers both in BIOS and Windows OS:

* In BIOS:

* Undervolt Protection -> [Disabled]

* CFG Lock -> [Disabled]

* Overclocking Lock -> [Disabled]

* Intel Virtualization Technology & VT-d -> [Disabled]

* In Windows 11:

* Disabled Core Isolation (Memory Integrity).

* Unchecked Virtual Machine Platform and Windows Hypervisor Platform in "Turn Windows features on or off".

* Set MSI Center's User Scenario to Balanced.

1. My Questions / Need Advice:

   * Microcode update lock? Since my BIOS is from May 2025, I strongly suspect it includes Intel's microcode patch (for the Gen 13/14 instability issues) which hard-locks UVP. I searched everywhere in the Advanced BIOS but couldn't find the Microcode Selection option to revert to microcode 0x104. Does anyone know if there's a way to unhide this specific setting on the MSI Katana?

   * BIOS description interpretation: When I hover over the Undervolt Protection setting in BIOS, the description says: "Enabled: Allow BIOS undervolting, but enable UnderVolt Protection in Runtime." Does this mean I should leave it as [Enabled] and just manually input the P-core Voltage Offset (Prefix [-] and value) directly in the BIOS instead? If I do that, how can I verify if the negative offset is actually running in Windows since ThrottleStop/XTU is locked from reading it?

   * Besides just lowering the Power Limits (PL1/PL2), are there any other workarounds to bypass this UVP lock on this machine?

Thanks in advance for any help!

I'm aware of the performance/noise issues associated with thin and light gaming laptops. I'm mostly curious to hear from any longer-term owners about how stability and reliability is on the Stealth A16 (2025). Thanks for any input.

Looking to add some more space on my laptop. Needs to be able store and run games from Steam. Would it be better to take out the original 500gb ssd and replace it with a 1 tb or could I add 1 tb in addition to the storage I have? Recommendations for specific storage drives appreciated.

I use MSI GE76 Raider 11UE-046. I tried using Steam OS on it but I cannot make it go 130W. I switched back to Windows 11 for MSI Center. I’m just worried about the longevity in the long term. Hopefully my laptop gets Windows 12 later when it releases and I can use it for another 10 years using that MSI Center application. I was able to make it work because I used a GitHub software tool(from 28allday) that uses WSL to install Nvidia drivers on Steam OS via arch Linux virtual machine.

Hey so ive had a msi ge75 raider for a while i had 2 and today i got on and i loaded up epic games and it was infinitely loading so i decided to restart my laptop infinitely restarting my internet icon at the bottom right of my screen shows no internet and when i click on it it show blue tooth and airplane mode it doesnt show the internet and when i went onto the other msi ge75 raider it does the same thing

I have msi thin 15 laptop yesterday i took this to gujarat in bag for some work we set closely with some guys but when i got back home i started listening to a crack sound when i open the lid or close the lid in between the body of laptop and lid part in the right corner it snaps upwards and then i have to press it down but is this something I should be worried about ? Also my father doesn't let me do about this anything 😔 what a shyt life man

Hey all I have a question about replacement fans. I have looked across the internet for a replacement fan with product number:E32-2500300-A87. But had zero luck. I've messaged sellers on new egg and had no luck. MsI says I have to send it to them and pay 200 bucks for the heatsink and fan and won't sell it to me. I have taken it apart to clean and check it and I am able to replace just the fan. Does anyone know where I can find a replacement fan from a reputable vendor. Many thanks in advance.

I recently purchased an MSI Vector A8W and went to MSI Center’s Live Update section to download the latest drivers but there are two drivers that I can't update: the MediaTek Bluetooth Driver and the AMD Wireless LAN Driver.

When I click download, MSI Center downloads two folders containing an install.bat file and another folder with various MTK files but when I run the install.bat file, the Command Prompt window appears for a split second and then immediately closes, and the drivers are not installed.

I have also tried resetting the laptop twice, but nothing changed

Msi GL63 8rc webcam not working since 2 weeks

Device manager does not show the camera checked other forums who asked to push f6 or recorrect usb device driver further down the list but no error over there also

Adding legacy hardware wizard also did not work as it did not show any new hardware and EC reset also did not work

Hi, would anyone be so kind as to share the Windows Home ISO image for the MSI Delta 15 with me, please? I need it because it comes with all the programs pre-installed. I would be extremely grateful!

There is a gap at my adapter but it still work normally and so far there is no electrical issue occur. What should i do to fix it and is it dangerous?

Msi Cyborg a12vf 120w Delta charger died this morning (no longer shows charging on laptop and when i tested it using a voltmeter it would show 19v for 1 sec then it cuts off. I just got an original 150w chicony original charger (20v 7.5A instead of 6A) and ofc it works fine.

My question altho i sort of know the answer.

Will it be more stable with a higher wattage overhead?

Here's a bonus pic of the insides of my old 120W charger.

Hello,

I just installed ubuntu 26.04 and because it has very recent hardware and I had one difficult passage, I am making this post.

Ubuntu 26.04 Installation and MSI Vector 17 HX AI Setup — Conversation

Export

This file contains the conversation content and key command/output

exchanges from the Ubuntu installation/setup thread, including Windows

resizing, Intel VMD troubleshooting, Ubuntu dual boot, GRUB boot order,

Secure Boot/MOK enrollment, and NVIDIA RTX 5090 driver setup.

NOTE: This is a reconstructed text export from the conversation context

available to the assistant.

PART 1 — DISK PREPARATION / WINDOWS

USER: If you do this your files wonty be protectes “Turn Off”,

Decryption in progress

USER: Can we already just look at the partitions ?

USER: 300MB EFI System, Windows C 1875.61 GB 900MB Recovery 30.82GB

Recovery partition

USER: What I usually do is having a linux system particition and a data

partition. On the data partition I alos put my docker images, LLM files,

etc. So I can easily do a fresh reinstall (In never upgrade my system

because I want to get rid of unneccessary files). Can you advice a

partition for this ?

USER: Windows is only used occationally, so 400GB is ok

USER: Device encryption says off

USER: It asks for the amount of space to shrink in MB, or shoud be use

Mb ? What would be your computed value ?

USER: That number is 1920624

USER: I made a mistake:

1. total size before shrink in MB 1920624

2. Size of available shrink space in MB 1821326

USER: Total size after shrink in MB 409600

USER: It is done, I have a bootable ubuntu-26.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso usb

stick

USER: I am now in “Try Ubuntu” and my wifi is connected

PART 2 — LIVE UBUNTU HARDWARE CHECKS

Detected PCI hardware:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Arrow Lake-S [Intel

Graphics] (rev 06) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation

GB203M / GN22 [GeForce RTX 5090 Max-Q / Mobile] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio

device: NVIDIA Corporation GB203 High Definition Audio Controller (rev

a1) 80:14.5 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation Device 7f2f

(rev 10) 80:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 800

Series ACE (Audio Context Engine) (rev 10) 84:00.0 Network controller:

Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) AX1775/AX1790/BE20/BE401/BE1750 2x2

(rev 1a)

Kernel:

7.0.0-30-generic

NVIDIA PCI information showed: - RTX 5090 Mobile [10de:2c18] - MSI

subsystem [1462:149c] - Live-session driver: nouveau

Wi-Fi: - Intel Wi-Fi 7 [8086:272b] - driver: iwlwifi

Display topology: - Intel graphics drove the internal eDP panel in

MSHybrid mode. - NVIDIA exposed external DP/HDMI connectors and an

alternate eDP path. - Internal display: 3840x2400 at approximately 240

Hz.

Other checks: - Suspend/resume worked. - Battery reporting worked. -

Keyboard backlight worked. - Microphone worked. - Bluetooth scanning

worked. - Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE detected.

PART 3 — INTEL VMD / SSD NOT VISIBLE

During Ubuntu manual partitioning, only the USB drive was visible.

lsblk showed approximately:

sda 57.8G disk iso9660 HEMA_64GB ├─sda1 6G iso9660 ├─sda2 5M vfat ├─sda3

300K └─sda4 51.7G ext4

The internal NVMe was missing.

PCI showed:

00:0e.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Intel Corporation Volume Management

Device NVMe RAID Controller Intel Corporation [8086:ad0b] DeviceName:

Onboard - Other Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI]

Device [1462:149c] Kernel modules: vmd

80:1d.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation RST VMD Managed

Controller [8086:09ab]

The VMD module could be loaded with:

sudo modprobe vmd

but the VMD device did not bind. dmesg contained:

vmd 0000:00:0e.0: Unknown Bus Offset Setting (3)

The conclusion was that the Ubuntu 26.04 live kernel did not support the

VMD configuration used by this new Intel/MSI platform, preventing the

NVMe disk from appearing.

PART 4 — PREPARING WINDOWS TO DISABLE VMD

Windows Device Encryption / BitLocker was already OFF.

In an Administrator Command Prompt:

bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal

Output:

The operation completed successfully.

This configured Windows to enter Safe Mode on its next boot, preparing

Windows for the storage-controller topology change.

The BIOS was entered via Windows recovery / UEFI Firmware Settings.

The normal MSI BIOS did not expose VMD.

The hidden Advanced BIOS settings were opened, and the VMD menu was

found at:

Advanced BIOS Settings → System Agent (SA) Configuration → VMD Setup

Menu

The menu contained:

Enable vmd controller [Enabled] Enable vmd global mapping [Disabled] Map

RP BDF 128/29/0 Under VMD [Enabled] RAID0 [Enabled] RAID1 [Enabled]

RAID5 [Disabled] RAID10 [Disabled] ZPODD [Disabled]

Only this setting was changed:

Enable VMD controller Enabled → Disabled

The other VMD/RAID settings were left untouched.

Windows then successfully booted into Safe Mode with VMD disabled.

The temporary Safe Mode configuration was removed using:

bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot

Windows was then able to boot normally with VMD disabled.

PART 5 — UBUNTU INSTALLATION

After disabling VMD, the Ubuntu installer could see the internal SSD.

Manual partitioning showed:

nvme0n1 ~2.05 TB nvme0n1p1 VFAT 314.57 MB nvme0n1p2 134.22 MB nvme0n1p3

NTFS 429.50 GB free space 1.58 TB nvme0n1p4 NTFS 943.72 MB nvme0n1p5

NTFS 33.09 GB

The existing partitions were preserved: - EFI System partition -

Microsoft Reserved partition - Windows partition - Windows recovery

partition - MSI/OEM recovery partition

The free space was used for Ubuntu/Linux according to the planned Linux

system/data separation.

Ubuntu 26.04 was installed successfully.

PART 6 — GRUB / WINDOWS BOOT ORDER

After installation, the machine initially booted directly into Windows.

Pressing F11 at the MSI logo opened the one-time boot menu. Ubuntu was

present there and booted successfully into GRUB/Ubuntu.

In Ubuntu:

efibootmgr

Output:

BootCurrent: 0002 Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: 0000,0002 Boot0000*

Windows Boot Manager

HD(1,GPT,809326d4-57eb-44b8-b7a4-e01d3abffc70,0x800,0x96000)/.efi…

Boot0002* Ubuntu

HD(1,GPT,809326d4-57eb-44b8-b7a4-e01d3abffc70,0x800,0x96000)/64.efi

The EFI boot order was changed:

sudo efibootmgr -o 0002,0000

Although BootOrder became correct, MSI still booted Windows.

The MSI BIOS had an additional boot priority under:

UEFI Hard Disk Drive BBS Priorities

Ubuntu was moved ahead of Windows Boot Manager there.

After saving the BIOS configuration, normal startup correctly entered

GRUB.

Final boot flow:

Power on → GRUB → Ubuntu → Windows Boot Manager

PART 7 — NVIDIA RTX 5090 DRIVER

On the installed Ubuntu system:

ubuntu-drivers devices

Output:

== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:01:00.0 == modalias :

pci:v000010DEd00002C18sv00001462sd0000149Cbc03sc00i00 vendor : NVIDIA

Corporation model : GB203M / GN22 [GeForce RTX 5090 Max-Q / Mobile]

driver : nvidia-driver-595 - distro non-free driver :

nvidia-driver-580 - distro non-free driver : nvidia-driver-595-open -

distro non-free recommended driver : nvidia-driver-580-server - distro

non-free driver : nvidia-driver-595-server-open - distro non-free driver

: nvidia-driver-610-open - distro non-free driver : nvidia-driver-610 -

distro non-free driver : nvidia-driver-580-open - distro non-free driver

: nvidia-driver-580-server-open - distro non-free driver :

nvidia-driver-595-server - distro non-free driver :

xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

Ubuntu explicitly recommended:

nvidia-driver-595-open

System update:

sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade

Four packages were deferred due to Ubuntu phased updates. They were left

deferred.

NVIDIA driver installation:

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-595-open

PART 8 — SECURE BOOT / MOK

During NVIDIA installation, Ubuntu detected that UEFI Secure Boot was

enabled.

Ubuntu requested creation of a temporary Machine Owner Key (MOK)

enrollment password.

On reboot, the blue MOK Manager appeared.

The enrollment sequence was:

Enroll MOK → Continue → Yes → enter the temporary password → Reboot

The password is only needed for enrollment; it is not required on every

boot.

This enrolled a trusted signing key so that the NVIDIA kernel module can

load while UEFI Secure Boot remains enabled.

PART 9 — NVIDIA VERIFICATION

nvidia-smi successfully detected the RTX 5090.

PCI check:

lspci | grep -i nvidia

Output:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GB203M / GN22

[GeForce RTX 5090 Max-Q / Mobile] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA

Corporation GB203 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

The first attempt at the detailed PCI command used a typo:

lspci -nnk -s 01.00.0

which produced:

lspci: -s: Invalid slot/function number

The correct PCI syntax uses a colon:

lspci -nnk -s 01:00.0

Output:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GB203M /

GN22 [GeForce RTX 5090 Max-Q / Mobile] [10de:2c18] (rev a1) Subsystem:

Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:149c] Kernel

driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm,

nvidia

The authoritative result is:

Kernel driver in use: nvidia

This confirms that the RTX 5090 is running with the NVIDIA driver rather

than Nouveau.

FINAL STATE

Laptop: - MSI Vector 17 HX AI A2XWJG family - Intel Arrow Lake

platform - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, 24 GB - 2 TB NVMe -

3840x2400 ~240 Hz internal display - Intel Wi-Fi 7

Storage: - Intel VMD disabled - Windows boots successfully using direct

NVMe access - Windows and MSI recovery partitions retained - Ubuntu

installed alongside Windows - Linux system/data separation used

Boot: - MSI UEFI recognizes both Windows and Ubuntu - Ubuntu is first in

UEFI Hard Disk Drive BBS Priorities - Normal boot enters GRUB - GRUB

provides Ubuntu and Windows choices

Ubuntu: - Ubuntu 26.04 - Secure Boot enabled - NVIDIA signing key

enrolled via MOK - nvidia-driver-595-open installed - RTX 5090 visible

via nvidia-smi - Kernel driver in use: nvidia

Next planned setup: - Configure persistent Linux data storage for

projects, LLM models, Docker data, and datasets - Docker - NVIDIA

Container Toolkit - Python/PyTorch AI development environment - CUDA

toolkit only if/when actually required

Anyone know where I can find a GE66 Raider rtx 3070 motherboard? For less than $1600?

Hi, I just bought the MSI Crosshair A16 HX with a Ryzen 9 8940HX and an RTX 5060 and feel like the fans are always 3000+ rpm and only when im literally doing nothing is when the fans quite down. I was just installing an 80GB game and the entire time the fans were at 3500+ rpm, I tried messing around with the fan curves in MSI center but still the fans are always loud. I know the processor is a bit beefy and runs hot but is that the normal?

With a quick calculation of my 4 year old katana, the 115Wcpu(max) and 105Wgpu(has never touched that btw), make 220W MAX(aka never happened), i have a 240W brick(that came with it), im curious if i can force more wattage through the GPU safely, for refernce the specs:

CPU: I7 12700H

GPU: RTX 3070Ti

RAM: 64gbDDR4@3200mhz

The GPU hardly ever pulls above 80, and ive never seen it do above 90W, thermals are not an issue(hovering between 65 and 70⁰c), it does not have the split heat pipe system, so fan 1 is gpu, fan 2 is cpu), id love to get some input! Since i know the later ZOK's of this generation did manage a 115-140W GPU), would love to hear from yall!

Hello
Today I tried to turn on my laptop but it wasn't connected to the adapter, the laptop's keyboard stayed on but nothing else happened. I had to force a shutdown but this has happened before. In case it helps my laptop has an AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS, 16GB of ram and an RTX 4050

I have an MSI GF65 Thin 10UE with the i7 and RTX 3060, and I'm having a really hard time describing an issue I've been experiencing while playing Apex Legends.

The game isn't stuttering, and my FPS seems fine. I'm running the laptop's display at 144Hz and have Apex capped at 120 FPS just like every other PC I've played it on. But for some reason, the entire game just feels... weird and slightly sluggish? I genuinely don't know how else to describe it.

It almost feels like there's input delay, but I'm not even sure that's actually what it is. My aim feels off, my movement feels off, and everything just feels less responsive than it should.

I know my controller isn't the issue because I've used the exact same controller on another PC, and it feels significantly better and more responsive there.

Has anyone else with a GF65 Thin 10UE experienced something similar? I'm wondering if it's possibly:

-The laptop's 144Hz display/pixel response time

-Some Windows, NVIDIA, or MSI setting

-V-Sync or another latency related setting

-CPU/GPU performance or temperatures

I'm honestly not sure what I'm feeling or how to properly test it, but something definitely feels off when I'm playing Apex compared to other PCs. If anyone has experienced this or has suggestions for things I should check, I'd really appreciate the help.

I'm also just experiencing mild motion sickness from the screen.