MSI GX70 Destroyer - issues

Hi
I have some problems with my MSI GX70 Destroyer. I've had it for about half a year now and I'm very much dissapointed in it's
gaming performances. I contacted MSI support with this issue and they told me to update my vbios and gave me a link.
This hasn't resolved my problem, and furthermore, my touchkeys (see image, the buttons for cooler booster, keyboard lighting...)
don't work anymore.
Can anyone help me out please? Thanks!
BIOS Version: E176KAMS.50F
EC Version: 176KEMS1 Ver5.07
AMD A10-5750M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics @2.500GHz
*sorry if this is in the wrong section.

Not sure if your native EC firmware is 176KEMS1.XXX or 176KEMS2.XXX but you can manually try to flash to another version. Be noted that this should be done in dos with the flash tool.
http://wikisend.com/download/907702/ENEF_030.zip
Use the command ene_030 /flash -b34c -e 176KEMS2.507. Check again those function keys work or not. If not, this could be a HW issue.

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