Can't get GX60 to use its dragonslaying-lavaspitting-overpowered Radeon HD 7970M

Question

Hello everyone,
I have recently bougth the GX60 Hitman Edition (OS-less) and installed Windows 8 on it. Got most of the drivers, among which the chipset one (ATI Comel Chipset/VGA driver). I installed some games and found out all of them were running incredibly slow (it's totally unplayable). I thought if ALL of them were slow, probably the graphic card wasn't working (supposedly AMD Radeon HD 7970M). I checked Control Panel > System > the thingy called Device Manager or something like that in the category Display : turned out that Windows recognized another graphic card (Radeon 8650, I bet it's integrated to the CPU ?) but no trace of Super Saiyan HD 7970M.
I tried installing the driver directly from the AMD website, seems to provide me the same program as the MSI drivers list - I get a software called Catalyst Control Center. But still no Mastersword Grailseeker Radeon 7970M in my components list.
Uninstalled, reinstalled, redownloaded, etc. didn't work. Let's not talk about rebooting either.
In my poorly inspired crusade, I ended up uninstalling the only graphic card Windows was able to detect (Radeon 8650). It was indicated as malfunctionning (Error 43). Asking Windows to automatically detect anything allowed me to reinstall this once... but not twice : now the card is gone and nowhere to be found. It's a pity, but I don't see any change whatsoever - games don't seem slower than before (but that would've been hard anyway). 
Now, as you imagine, the question is : why is my graphic card pretending to be a ghost ? How may I convince it to be of any use ? What might I have messed up ? I might have made a more or less important mistake while installing W8, so please do not restraint yourself from asking me to check the basics.
Fun fact : this computer seems to have a plane mode. There indeed is a little plane-shaped light on the keyboard ; the thing is, this little guy's always lit. Supposedly fn+F10 should switch this mode off, but it doesn't change a thing.
Fun fact 2 : there's a sticker on the keyboard, with a summary of this computer's characteristics. Including the GPU. Which is indicated as "AMD Radeon HD 8970M". Simple spelling mistake... ?
Thank you very much for reading. I hope someone has a hint about that... ? I've already googled my problem quite a lot and found some resembling issues, but no solution whatsoever.

Answer 1

If the video card isn't detected it's usually 1 of 2 problems....
1. The GPU MXM module isn't properly seated and it isn't being detected because it's not properly connected.
2. The GPU MXM module is flat out faulty and needs to be replaced.
Either of these scenario's wouldn't surprise me. You wouldn't be the first person I've seen with the MXM module being slightly loose and not correctly installed. It might have shifted during shipping if it wasn't properly screwed down.
It also wouldn't be the first that I've seen get a new notebook with a video card that's flat out broken.
Best thing I can say to do is contact MSI about an RMA.
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