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Here's what I would personally do....
Install the SSD.
Remove the HDD.
Install using the Restore disks, doing a full install.
When it's done, go into Windows and using the Computer Management tool (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management, then go to the "Disk Management" link) and remove the restore partition and leave it as empty, unpartitioned space.
Re-install the HDD into the second bay.
Ensure that the computer is booting from the SSD and not the HDD.
Copy over whatever files you might have on the HDD, and remove all partitions from it, and format it as one large drive.
That should complete what I would do, if it were me.
The reason for leaving the space unpartitioned on the SSD is it essentially gives you more TRIM space, allowing the drive to work more efficiently over a long period of time (ie over years) without 'slowing down' at all. This can happen if you fully partition the SSD and nearly fill the drive. By leaving extra, unparitioned space there, you give it more room to work and make the drive be able to operate more quickly in the long run.

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MSI GT70 2OC Realtek audio driver problem

Hi,
I am having MSI GT70 2OC-065US. I am using Roccat Kave headphones. Headphone is real 5.1 surround one, hence it comes with four 3.5 mm audio jacks. It used to work well and there was sound from each speaker. But since I have upgraded to latest sound drivers provided on product support page, my rear speakers have stopped working. If I exchange the jack with some other then they work, but speakers which are plugged in rear jack don't work. This means new drivers have probably disabled my rear jack.
Kindly suggest a solution to this problem.

Quote from: Nichrome on 11-August-14, 04:45:57
No sorry my friend. My PC is not with me on my holiday so can't help as much as I'd like to.
Restore to previous settings, apparently there is nothing newer (in most cases) just simple bug fixes, and I believe you had no probs before?
Thanks for replying and sorry for disturbing during your holiday. I switched back to my old drivers and everything started working perfectly fine.
I guess there is problem with new drivers.

MSI GT70 2OC Gaming Laptop Review from UK media "gamingtilldisconnected".

The MSI GT70 2OC is part the of gaming laptop range from MSI, sporting a 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor, a 17.3 inch Full High Definition anti-glare LCD panel, a full-size keyboard from SteelSeries with a full color LED back light, rocking a fantastic set of speakers and runs the latest version of Windows 8.1. I’ve been using the GT70 non-stop for everything from gaming, editing video, watching films to simple word processing and I am genuinely impressed.
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Editors' Choice Award
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457251,00.asp

MSI GT70 20C WIN 8.1 UPGRADE ISSUES!!!!

Hello everyone A bit of a quagmire here. I have a new MSI GT70 20C. It is an awesome gaming machine to say the least. I decided to choose the best of two evils and decided to upgrade to WIN 8.1.....
Here is the issue:
1:Uninstalled the old Killer E2200 LAN/WLAN/BT 4.0 Drivers.
2:Installed the new Drivers provided by MSI and all work except LAN.
3:Uninstalled everything and tried again but this time noticed that when device manager is open and installing the driver pack, the device manager refreshed about 10 times or so and it is all fine until after the program says to reboot then the LAN is not working again. I proceeded to uninstall and re-install this time to cancel the install as I realized that there is something in the driver pack that is conflicting with windows during the install process. I restarted the system and now it all works.
This is not just a request for assistance from support but also a really strange assist. Please respond if anyone encounters the same situation.

I've got the newer/newest gt70 dominator pro, which came with windows 8.1 installed.
So I don't have the same issue as you.
But with killer and drivers for it, ive had nothing but problems.
As of right now, I deleted the killer suite and only have drivers installed. The LAN driver in my device manager shows the yellow exclamation mark, but it works. So that's where I am and that's where im choosing to stay.
I will end up, and soon, getting an intel wireless card, but not sure if you can replace the lan as I think that might be part of the board.

MSI GT70-2OC Questions

Hi, I have any questions about my GT70-2OC. Do anyone knows any differencies between 51B bios and 71B bios version?
How I can get it to work Sound Blaster Cinema II software if its possible and SteelSeries Engine? Because i heard If i upgrade my GPU form GTX770 so, SSE will start work. So is there any way how to get it worsk withou gpu upgrade? I think between 2OC and 2QD isn't any hardware different, only GPU is 980GT Thanks.

51B: UEFI AHCI mode.
71B: UEFI RAID mode.
They are just different on the default SATA mode. Their BIOS IDs are different too so it's unable to cross-flash. Don't worry.
SSE will only run on laptops with 8xx or 9xx series of NVIDIA graphic cards. If you want to enforce it to run on the laptop with 7xx series of the cards, some said you need some kinds of system tools to modify the hardware ID of your graphic card to cheat the SSE.

MSI GT70 2OC Questions (Unlocked Bios, upgrade VGA drivers)

Hi Iam looking for some answers, from what I saw, there are few really awesome helping people here. So Hi to everyone!
AS I noticed there is no GT70 2OC topic here, so there is now. I will update infos How-to´s and other stuff for everyone that have this revision.
1. Update VGA drivers, Set as default there is nvidia optimus (Intel+nvidia switching mode)
Pros: Battery life
Cons: Faulty switching in some games, just sporadic driver support, 2 VGA drivers at once couse problems with CAD applications and some older games.
Comment: Iam using this as Hi-end mobile solution for work and games, extra 4th hour of battery live comes as real nonsense to me in exchange for ale the troubles.
Possible solution: Unlocking hidden/advanced BIOS options should reveal control for wheter to swithing mode od discrete graphics only. Setting it to discrete graphics only would mean no driver troubles slightly better performance and most importanly possibilyty of regular VGA driver updates from nvidia.
I already send PM to Svet about unlocking bios. But Iam still asking any ideas anyone?

Sadly most of those concerns aren't really valid.
While I have the old GT70 0NE, even on this unit there were no issues ever getting any program (be it Autocad/Solidworks/whatever you like, or games either, even if they were older) to work with the card(s) properly. It's all a matter of making it do what you want, which is actually handled rather well by the drivers. Optimus is much better than it was a while ago, and it functions very well now.
While your your point of just making it default to the NVidia card is valid, it's a very moot point. Every program I've tried (be it 10+ year old games even from the mid-90's, to even the most recent applications and games) works just fine. Again, it's all in how you make the driver work. If you tell it to use the NVidia card when you run this program, it'll work.
I wouldn't worry about making it use only the NVidia card exclusively, it really isn't worth the effort. While it is possible, it's much more difficult than one would think....

MSI GT70 20C WIN 8.1 - Slowness - Suicidal

Ever since I've upgraded to Window 8.1 from Window 8 my GT70 20C is never the same. I bought this laptop for gaming but since my window 8.1 update I've been having the following problems:
- Slow start up (please wait.... for 10+ Min)
- Slow turn off time. Screen will be off but you can hear the fan and see the processing light flashing
- If computer is idle for 10 min, it automatically turns into sleep mode and it takes about 20 min or so to log back in
- While playing Left 4 Dead 2 - my mouse skips and have no control for for brief 1 second every other 20 seconds or so
- Adobe photoshop - Start up used to be fast less than 7 second to start on the first time but takes longer now
I've download the latest video card driver and there is no help. I've uninstall Norton Anti-Virus and there is no help. I've deleted my first account and created a new one that didn't help. I've changed microsoft login to local login still didn't help. The most painful part is turning on and off the computer and when idle more than 10min the computer goes to sleep by itself and it wakes up when it wants to... I had to hold the power bottom down to do a force start every time.
I've read many different blogs and I can't find a way to go back to Window 8. I never receive a window 8 disk which I thought it should come with the purchase and I didn't even have a product serial key on the bottom of my computer so I can reformat everything back to Window 8.
I am seriously thinking about to sell this laptop and just build a desktop and install window 7.
Please HELP!

Quote from: gt70usa on 09-December-13, 17:01:01
MSI didn't give me a copy of Window 8 - what do I do?
I upgraded from XP to Window 8.1 - Do you like Window 7 better? I never used 7 before but I heard it's the closest thing to XP. any1?
What do you download with that 100MB+ speed? hahahah
There should be an option to rollback to w8.
Windows 8 has proved to deliver more gaming performance than w7 on the same hardware. If you use this laptop for gaming, then don't go to w7. Especially if you are playing Bf4 or any game that gets use of dx11.1

BIOS Unlock Request for MSI GT70-2OC

Hi,
I would like to to request a UEFI BIOS unlock for my laptop, the current version installed is E1763IMS.70J but the laptop came preinstalled with E1763IMS.70C.
The main aim of the unlock is so that I can load custom kernels (to install linux) but I would also appreciate it if you could fully unlock the BIOS.
I have made a donation and the confirmation number is: 1LU475121Y029870K
Let me know if you need more info.
Thanks

Quote from: alonso_91 on 26-February-14, 23:58:37
Thank you.
Do you need me to upload the bios file? because I believe that the msi website has the 70R archive which made my laptop useless.
you mean you don't want latest version [70S or 70R],
but 70J exactly?
Quote from: alonso_91 on 26-February-14, 23:58:37
the msi website has the 70R archive which made my laptop useless.
how exactly? what hapends after flashing to 70R official?

MSI GT70 2OC-065US LED

Hi there everyone, I have question its rather very odd one though.
i CAnt sem to understand that why my power button light changes from orange to white, its been doing this when i re installed the nvidia graphic driver.
Perhaps someone could shed light on this matter

Quote from: owais on 06-February-14, 10:44:31
oh thanks, but then when i play games its always on white
Most likely the games aren't being picked up by the NVidia software as being a game and it isn't switching.
If you go into your NVidia control panel(right click on the desktop, NVidia Control Panel), under the "3D Settings" -> "Manage 3D Settings", if you then look at the right hand window, click on the "Program Settings" tab, and in there you can change the settings for each program/game individually. You can add games, and then set them to use the "High Performance NVidia processor", and it should then use the NVidia card.

MSI GT70 2OC Sound gone while playing game. Please Help?

Hi everyone!
As the title, I had problem with my sound since last month that while I'm playing game ( especially hard and heavy games) the sound will be gone completely. First it happens with weird sound like zzzzzz then the sound become smaller and dissappear :(. After that I can't hear anything unless I have to quit my game for awhile then it's back. I have tried to fix it but failed :(, could anyone please give me some solutions please, I'm fed up and so tired already . Thank you so much

Quote from: linh183 on 29-May-15, 13:40:11
^already Disable but still crashing sound while playing game then it's gone, please help me !
Do you use the latest BIOS/Audio driver for your laptop?

MSI GT70-2OC with NVIDIA Geforce GTX 770m: performance issues

I've setup some games on my gaming laptop and I'm seeing lower frame rates with various games (30-50), and there is a "line" in the 3D graphics (I'm assuming that has something to do with the refresh rate). Any idea as to what might be causing this issue? Any ideas on how I can boost the performance of my GTX 770m?
thanks,
fb

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It was suggested to me by a family member that it may be a hardware issue, hence the consideration for sending it in.
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To me it sounds like a hardware issue (especially if you have rolled back to factory default and reinstalled from scratch)
It wouldn't be a hardware issue since you can play other games without problem.
Easiest way to tell if it's a hardware issue or not is to run the benchmark tool for example 3DMark 11 and see if the problem also happens during the benchmark.
For the rendering problem you were talking, please provide not only the problem picture but also the picture without problem to let us make the comparison.
I'm sorry to say, but some of the picture I'm not really getting what the problem you're talking about.
For the shadow face, here are few user provided fix which might be helpful.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2282965
http://forum.bioware.com/topic/55984-shadows-way-too-darkblack-intendedscreenshot-solved/
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Re-installing DirectX and PhysX.
NVIDIA moderator says some of the games is required to play some older Physx games, but not sure if it works.
If you would like to have a try.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/524066/geforce-drivers/official-nvidia-r310-61-beta-display-driver-feedback-thread-released-11-20-12-/post/3714758/#3714758
I'd suggest to post the issue on EA, steam or obioware and see if there are people looking into it.

Why MSI gt70 or gt72 dont have digital sound out?

why? If I dont use HDMI I am left only with line out, which is analog signal. SOmetimes HDMI has too much lag for a specific game so I need to use optical sound out without HDMI
any idea?

To go with the optical cable like that you also need a Toslink female adapter. You should have ordered a a cable like this instead:
http://www.amazon.de/KabelDirekt-Optisches-TOSLINK-Digital-Stecker/dp/B00KNQR4UK/ref=sr_1_31?s=ce-accessories&ie=UTF8&qid=1426490799&sr=1-31
http://www.amazon.de/Adapter-Toslink-Buchse-optischer-Stecker-schwarz/dp/B000LB65XO/ref=pd_sim_ce_acc_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=124SKWSAMV7KWHVCQF28
Plug it into the headphone out/SPDIF-out jack on the computer and plug the optical cable into it.

Unable to create wifi hotspot on MSi GT70 2OC

Hi,
My laptop has killer wifi n1202 card. I tried to create a wifi hotspot on my laptop but it doesn't work.
I tried every available software on the net and tried to create without software also through command prompt.
But nothing seems to work.
Has anybody faced same problem and has a solution for this ?

Apparently do do not know quite what a WiFi hotspot is. You don't create one on your computer you can access one if there is one in the vicinity of your computer. Read this for better understanding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotspot_%28Wi-Fi%29

Re: Error Code 80240020; Not getting Updated to Windows 10 (MSI GT70 2OC)

Download the ISO file and install the upgrade from there. As for sound yes you need to update your bios as said above. This is something completely different from upgrading windows.

Quote from: huijbers on Today at 09:23:38Just googling there seems to be an authorised service center in BA
Mmmm.. You are right... I will think about it.
TY!

MSI GT70-2OC BIOS request

hey svet how much do you want for unlocking my BIOS?

tell what's your current BIOS version
Quote from: hans123 on 24-January-14, 14:18:12
okey and i only donate to you and send you the bios and you pm me?
i need 2-3 hours to work over it before send back to you when its done

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