MSI GT70 2PC - Keyboard problem

Hello... I'm having some trouble with my Steelseries keyboard.
Whenever Steelseries Engine is running in the background, my keyboard is not functioning at all.
I am unable to type anything, except when I go into Steelseries Engine and try to change macro shortcuts. The keys are recognized.
However, when it comes to internet browsers, notepad (everywhere else), the keyboard doesn't function at all.
As soon as I quit the Steelseries Engine process, they keyboard starts working as intended, at the cost of having a bright white light as my backlit color.
Every time I restart my laptop, the keyboard works completely fine... but as soon as SSE runs, it stops working. So I'd then have to exit to proceed as normal. I have tried to update the SSE to the newest one, but no success.
Does anyone have an idea of what might be going on?

Hello Lilarban97,
Suggest also updating the BIOS & EC. I remember SSE requires some support from BIOS & EC or there will be some weird symptoms happened. SSE will create some virtual devices in the system to make some keyboard functions to work. Based on the symptom you described, the created virtual keyboard seems to suppress your physical keyboard device due to some unknown reasons.

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MSI GT70 2PC Dominator Battleship – EpisodeⅠ

[Introduction]
[Roberts are the dream of every man] one of my close fellows said. Actually, I am not a 3C fans. But it is really excited that Titan Fall is online now. So I made a tough decision that I never did it before. I purchased the [MSI GT70 2PC Dominator] with last year bounds.
[Open box article]
Finally, the shipment is coming today. It is true that now is one of my happiest moment in life. I put down all my work and start to share my new toy for everyone.
Note:
It is sad that I only have a phone next to me. Please forgive me those non-quality and non-professional pictures in article.
That is cool that we can find a big case with MSI log and an extra backpack in package.
There is MSI log on the top of box. Furthermore, I must said the Dragon log is so fashion and beautiful. That is a nice backpack which we can carry it outside anytime.
There is an extra soft layer behind the backpack. It improves the comfortable and air permeability for user.
In my own opinion, I like this kind of design.
Let’s check what surprise us in box.
We could see the label of GT70 2PC spec on the side of box.
MSI really provide the multi-protection for their products. There are two more cases inside.
We can find MSI gaming mouse/ SteelSeries SIBERIA V2 gaming headphone in box. Besides, there is a small and special box which has MSI Log. We will check it later.
All right. I think we can throw away the empty box now.
Wait a minute!!! The box is still so heavy. It must be something else that we didn’t take out.
Oh well, I see. There is a warranty service book and driver CD in the right side.
Also, battery and adapter are behind the cover.
Let’s take a family picture.
We have quick guide/MSI rromotional materials/manual for F3 recovery/driver CD for Win8.1/Warranty service book/ Windows 8.1 guide
Oh my god. There is a signet in that special box. Dragoon postmark is so elegant.
SteelSeries SIBERIA V2 Full-Size headset.
Furthermore, it supports 4 different languages. You can find the spec on its box.
Wow. MSI log is on the headphone. Totally, It is customized for MSI brand!!!
Another dragon army log on headphone.
MSI didn’t forget the inside of headphone. A beautiful shield is on it.
SteelSeries also promote this headphone on its website. It is so popular.
http://steelseries.com/products/audio/steelseries-siberia-v2
Now, let’s show SteelSeries KINZU V2 mouse.
Mouse supports 4 different languages, too. We also can find the spec on box.
However, there is no driver CD in box…LOL. How do I use it? We only can find the cute mouse and manual.
Sorry, my bad. We can download the driver and firmware from SteelSeries official website.
http://steelseries.com/products/mice/steelseries-kinzu-v2
Of course, there is a powerful dragon on mouse pad.
Take a mouse family picture.
180W adapter is just like a big strong brick. It is designed by most famous industry DELTA. You can find all kinds of safety signatures on it. It is powerful and undefeatable on playing game. But please understand that I didn’t suggest dear readers to use it as a weapon to throw/hurt people!!!
The battery is 7800mAh. And you can see all kinds of safety signatures on it.
Finally, our rock star is coming.
The laptop is surrounding by a lot of soft foams.
Huge dragon shield log on it.
Take off the black jacket. Then, we can see a nonwoven fabric inside the plastic bag.
Game start!!
This universe battle cruiser will help me dominate all my enemies in game .
We can find the security lack/power jack/ RJ45 port/D-SUB/m-DP/HDMI in back. The sales man said it can also support three external displays at same time. I must try the solution by myself when I get my new screens.
On the left side, there are USB3.0 port/Card Reader/HiFi headphone port (According to the spec, it will increase 30% audio performance). I can’t wait to listen my favorite music with it.
I didn’t forget my lovely BD. It also has BD reader/writer and 2 USB2.0 on the right side.
I can’t stop myself to take another wonderful photo with the MSI logo and upper case.
I have a feeling that my dominator is ready fight.
There is a [SteelSeries] LOGO on the left side. What a surprise it is. YA! We have SteelSeries keyboard on GT70. Absolutely, this is a gamer dream. Best Keyboard vendor SteelSeries and Top Gaming NB brand MSI are working together! It is totally worth for me.
DYNAUDIO, the leader of audio industry. As you know, BUGATTI’s sport cars use the DYNAUDIO. And MSI is the first notebook in world with this sound of Danish pride.
HA!HA!
I’m listening the best sound as rich people sitting in their sport cars. It feels great.
http://www.dynaudio.com/int/multimedia_sound/index.php
There are many thoughtful buttons on middle cover. (Power/Airplane mode/display on&off/Gaming button/Caps Luck/Num lock).
More convenience buttons, media/turbo fan/backlight LED.
We also have Bluetooth/WLAN/battery/sleep/disk indicators in front of laptop.
Here is GT70 spec and signatures form Sound Blaster CINEMA / nVIDIA /Intel.
An independent On/Off switch for touch pad.
Built-in Camera and Mic on the display.
You can see the thermal design and the battery when we check the back side.
The silver part is our bass. Just like the cannon on our battleship.
What is under the battery?
The left side is the safety signatures for GT70 and its WLAN.
The right side is Win8 LOGO and serial number.
Now we know my baby is born on February.
[Power on]
Gee!the Log is shining when the system is. power on .
The keyboard is just like the most beautiful rainbow that I’ve never seen. It is stunning. Honestly, my cheerful tear is dropping.
Anyway, Titanfall, I’m coming.
What? Something pops up when I attach the network.
What is [Killer Network Manager]?
Wow. Now I know that Killer high-performance networking products combine intelligence, control and superior networking speed for HD video, high quality audio, and online games. That’s great. I hate the evil [LAG] in game.
https://www.qca.qualcomm.com/products/killer-technology/
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I find a secret app in the tray of task bar during the game installation.
YA! That is SSE (Steelseries Engine). I can set my own hotkey, backlight LED and combo key with this good friend.
SSE is a smart app. It recognized my GT70 and my mouse immediately when I launch the app.
Sorry again. I was wrong because I don’t need a mouse driver. The SSE can control all of the actions. It is so sweet.
It is the time to say goodbye. Titanfall is calling. See you on battlefield!!!

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4. Luckily, the store I bought my notebook at was nice enough to replace my notebook for a new one. I got home, tested it, and the same thing happened. So I think we eliminated faulty hardware.
So now what? What else can I try?
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Quote from: Svet on 11-April-14, 18:12:20
have you done EC reset? https://forum-en.msi.com/faq/article/how-to-reset-the-ec-embedded-controller
can you try to plug the HDMI into your dell screen[insteal of sharp TV] to check if the same issue will hapends?
Install latest Intel GPU drivers from: http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/graphics
then retest
-Yes, I did the full EC reset. Once the EC flash was done, I removed the power cord from the back and the battery and let it sit for a few minutes before restarting.
- My Dell monitor is old, and does not have an HDMI port, but I will try a different cable on a different TV.
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MSI GT70 2PC Dominator USB 3.0 Issues

Hey folks,
Hopefully somebody can be of assistance, me and my friend both purchased the MSI GT70 2PC a couple of months ago, fantastic laptop by the way. The only issue that both of us have been experiencing is with the USB 3.0 ports.
The problem is that when we connect a USB 3.0 External HDD it occasionally works fine but more often than not it will continually connect and disconnect almost as if it is not getting the correct amount of power. Now we both work in a computer repair shop so we have tried all of the basics, ensuring drivers are up to date, changing the HDD cable and due to where we work we have managed to test over 5 different brands of USB 3.0 external drives, used and brand new, all of which work fine on other computers via USB 3.0
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Thankyou in advance for any help you can provide.

Hello markusbarrot,
The USB 3.0 high-speed electric signal is easy to be interfered and this will make the device suffer intermittent connections/disconnections. Not every USB 3.0 device suffered by this. It depends on the quality of the circuits between the USB device and the mainboard of the laptop.
1. Suggest you get a shorter USB 3.0 cable or an interference-resisted (magnetic shield) USB 3.0 cable. Some problems can be resolved by this.
2. Update the firmware of your external USB devices. Some problems can be resolved by this.
3. Return the laptop to the MSI authorized service providers or your local dealers for inspection on the USB ports. They can make sure your USB ports do work in the spec. or not.

MSI GT70 2PC shut down shortly after start

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Msi gt70 2pc dominator wlan

Hey guys its me again, i have a question which i cant seem to find on the net.
In the msi gt70 2pc dom driver page there seems to be two wlan driver; killer gaming wlan driver and intel wireless driver (beta).
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The GT702PC has a Killer Wireless N1202 network adapter. There is no Intel adapter in the laptop (source: device manager).
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GT70 2PC - WLAN problem

Good day,
I recently bought a GT70 2PC with the following specs:
processor: i7 4810MQ 2.8 GHz
RAM: 8GB
graphics: Nvidia GTX870M
Ethernet: Killer e2200 Gigabit ethernet controller
WLAN: Killer Wireless-N 1202 Network adapter
The problem:
I connect to the internet via wireless. When I play specific games I experience lag spikes (latency not FPS). Specifically League of Legends. I experience 30 ping constant, and then every 1-2 minutes it jumps to 500+ for 2-3 seconds and then goes back down. It is extremely frustrating. I tried playing Diablo 3 and didnt experience this, so I think it might possibly be specific to League of Legends. Just to note again, I have 100+ FPS constant, its not a graphics problem.
The troubleshooting ive already done:
This is not an issue with my fiber optic internet connection. I connect the laptop via ethernet cable and then the problem doesnt occur. I also used to play on my old laptop on the same internet connection without the lag spikes via wifi. I game far from my router so getting a cable is not a good solution, I paid an arm and a leg for this laptop I should be able to play on wifi if I want to. This also cancels out that it may be any other software causing the issue, its a fresh install in any case.
There is a sticky post called How to fix issues with Killer Lan/WLan. I followed the steps and currently do not have the Killer software installed, I only have the drivers installed. However, this did not help at all. I did this procedure 3 times out of desperation. Did not work for me.
I contacted MSI support. They told me to update my graphics drivers after I made it clear this is a latency issue. (I updated the graphics drivers the day I got the laptop in any case.). I responded to there feedback but they are taking long to get back to me, I am really hoping someone on this forum might be able to help.
I checked resource monitor and also used software called Process Monitor to log all CPU and network usage while I was playing. The lag spikes were not visible in this data to my knowledge.
I tried toggling bandwidth control on and off when I still used to have the Killer software installed.
My thoughts:
The fact that there is a post about people having issues with the Killer WLan makes me think that the wireless network adapter (or its drivers) are definitely the problem. However, after trying the fix in the sticky post and it not working makes it feels quite hopeless at this point. I do have the latest drivers installed. I feel like my only option is to wait for new drivers to be released and just hope that its fixed in the new drivers, but who knows how long that will take. Im thinking of sending the laptop back to where I bought it from but if this is a known issue affecting all laptops, id probably have the same problem with a replacement. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Hi Svet,
Thanks for the link but unfortunately it did not solve the problem. According to device manager the driver version has gone up to 10.0.0.287, but the lag spikes are still exactly the same.
Further, I installed a game called Day of Defeat, to test if this is a problem specific to League of legends or if its a general problem. I have the lag spikes in Day of Defeat as well so its not game specific.
Do you think it could be the Killer Network software causing this? Again I tried with bandwidth control on and off. Is there any way I could get these drivers without the Killer software or do you have any other possible solutions I can try?

MSI GT70 SteelSeries Keyboard Issue

Hey guys. I bought a MSI GT70 recently but I got an issue with my keyboard. The "A" button doesn't work properly. I need to push it really hard to work, i mean a normal touch isn't enough to make it type. So I decided to replace my keyboard with a new one. But I don't know where to buy/find another one. Is there a special serial name for steelseries/MSI GT70 keyboard?
I hope you can help me to find a new keyboard, or I am open to new suggestions
Sorry for my English.

You won't find a new keyboard available separately. Contact MSI about it. Most likely rma is the way to go: >>How to contact MSI.<<

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http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/72567/can-i-force-steam-to-use-my-nvidia-gpu-instead-of-the-integrated-intel-card
Most likely the game is using the Intel iGPU instead of the NVidia dedicated GPU, and this is why the games are running so badly. Follow the instructions linked above to setup the NVidia Optimus driver to use the NVidia card during Borderlands 2 (and any other games) so they work properly.

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I've got a GT70 2PC notebook with Win7 64bits installed, and I want to update its BIOS.
I've downloaded the last version (117 version, I think, because I haven't got RAID), but I couldn't update it, because its BIOS files are to UEFI Bios update, not the DOS version.... I haven't got the Flash.bat file to update it, only a file called "E1763IMS.117"...
What should I do?
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Greetings:
I need help, i was updating the BIOS of my laptop msi gt70 2od-039us (dragon Editon2) WIN 8 then upgraded to 8.1 with this: E1763IMS.717.zip exactly as shown in pdf of site msi bios download.... I did step by Step, but in the step 12. BIOS info says: “System will power off and then power on automatically”…
The laptop, goes off, then appears black screen, cooler spins but never enter in the flash screen.
Please help me how i restart my laptop again, it’s possible or i need to buy a new motherboard?
Thanks.
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MSI GT70 2PC Dominator Wifi Dropping

Hi there, new user here, first of all I have already read the existing post regarding wifi drops and fixes. To clarify, below are the steps that I have taken as per suggestions that i found on the net:
1. Uninstalled the Killer Gaming Network manager program and only using the wifi/lan drivers.
2. Re installed updated killer gaming network manager and drivers from both MSI and Killer websites.
3. Change the maximize the power saving mode in the battery section for wireless adapter.
4. Unable the power management settings in the network wireless via network and sharing centre.
5. Use several different drivers via the update drivers window in network adapter (via device manager)
- ive used the standard killer n1202 drivers.
- ive used the qualcomm atheros wireless network adapter (both microsoft and qualcomm)
- currently using the qualcomm atheros ar9462 802.11a/b/g/n wifi adapter
These are the steps that i've taken, one of the many that i can remember doing at the moment. Still to this day my wifi issue persist.
I refuse to believe that this is a hardware issue because the current GT70 that i am using is a brand new laptop that MSI has given me after I RMAed my earlier GT70. So you can say this is the 2nd laptop they've provided to me after making a hell lot of noise to them because my first GT70 had an unknown issue 1 week after light usage.
I've ran out of ideas on what to do, i've been sucking this up for the past 3-4 months as i cant find a fix. I've done everything i can except updating the bios, which i was advised not to since I do not know how to flash or update my bios (whichever term you call it).
My wifi drops so often and I keep having to flush my dns (using ipconfig /flushdns) every 30 mins or so just to able to use the net, much less play any games.
So i was wondering if there was any steps that I missed? Im really in desperate need for help as i no longer know what to do.
I appreciate any help that you guys can provide. Thank you very much!

Just a quick update on my wifi after installing two different 'realtek drivers' from the MSI website.
It's still too early to tell, I will update further once i start gaming.
Just incase you guys wanna install the drivers, proceed to this link:
http://www.msi.com/support/nb/GT70-2PC-Dominator.html#down-driver&Win8.1 64
Download this two files:
Realtek Audio Drivers (222.21MB)
Realtek Cardreader RTS5227-GR & RTS5249-GR (10.3MB)
PS: I downloaded the audio drivers just cause it had the name realtek in there lul!
Keep me posted!
UPDATE
After 2 hours of gaming and surfing the web, i didn't had to constantly flush my dns. Although my wifi bar alternates between 4 and 5 bars, im guessing this is normal (as the wireless modem isn't in my room but the room opposite mine).
So far so good, is it a coincidence? I am not too sure, give me a few more days of test run and it'll be more conclusive. I say you guys should update your drivers, no harm in trying right?

MSI gt70 full of problems

hello,
A few months ago i bought a MSI gt70 for high school. So i use my laptop for running autocad 2014 (2D and 3D) and some gaming for time to time. But i have alot of problems with my expensive computer. He has so far been two times to the rmh service expected with the same problem again. as bsod 'bath pool header application errors, high CPU usage of 'windows error reporting' 'windows SQM consoltation' and so on.
every time I get my laptop back from rmh nothing happened beyond a complete re-installation. I think my SSD drive is broken, but my laptop just keeps coming back and there is nothing happened. Now I have my laptop a month back and again I have a high CPU usage, application errors, I / O error with hdtunepro and so on.
How do I solve this problem, I do not know where the problem lies and i really need my laptop for highschool, that within one week starts again.
greetings
brent

I also have an msi gt70 i have been using it for some months now i am an architect so i run a lot of 2d and 3d application ranging from autocad to maya and 3ds max i feel the issues has something to do with the cooling do u put on the fan when the laptop runs this applications the laptop is stable is just recently i started having issues with the battery am not much of a techno geek but check the cooling and make sure the fans is always on

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