Bapteash

Hi there, I have a MSI Prestige 15 (10th i7 processor, NVIDIA 1650 discrete graphics), got it 3 weeks ago and while charging it this evening the laptop was hibernating and closed. I use the original charger, of course. I didn't let the charger for more than 2 hours. The laptop is set to stop charging at 80%. When I unplugged the charger, I opened the laptop and it had a lithium smell. I know the smell cause I previously punctured my ASUS ZenFone 3 battery while prying it out of the phone. This is the THIRD MSI laptop that I had in less than 2 months... What should I do? Another going back? Here I thought I had the perfect slim laptop... Thanks for your advice Take care

"Mac to avoid [...] issue"... well, good thing for you! If Macs didn't have issues, I would have bought one. But I learnt my lesson with my last Apple product: A 2014 MacBook Air custom with i7 and 16 GB of RAM. From one day to another, it went full slow. Nothing to do, motherboard was fried. Full spin fans and slow computer. Never Apple again. 1995-2014 for me was enough. I can't activate YCBR. There's no solution. F*ck Intel for voluntarily preventing people to have a normal 1080p60 output. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have that limitation over VGA cable. Which is so stupid.

Do you know how to do that, please? Well, on my Thomson TV, when I display from my desktop computer, and then from the laptop, with the same picture, I clearly see the difference, so my TV is able to display the full range. But somehow Intel decided to remove the option and nobody is providing a solution to pass through this "software limitation". ... what manufacturers do to sell more hardware;.. doomed world.

The Samsung TV looks fine but it's far from my laptop, I don't use it with it. And it "just looks fine", but truth is, all the blacks and white details are just gone!

I don't know if I mentioned it, but apparently before we could have full RGB range over HDMI but Intel blocked it in their new drivers...

Well that would maybe be a solution for my AOC monitor that has DP input, but what about the TVs that only have HDMI?

My laptop does not have DisplayPort... that's the thing And so do several laptops. Either you're offered HDMI or USB C. Apparently USB C to HDMI on intel GPU does the same thing: no FULL RANGE RGB output.

Hi there, I hope that you're doing great. New laptop here, a whooping 1400EUR cheap MSI Prestige A10SC with 10th i7-10710U and UHD Graphics, and discrete NVIDIA 1650 Max-Q. On the side, HDMI and Thunderbolt 3. And crappy speakers. And heat, lots of heat. Anyway! And I just spent my near last 24 hours scratching my head. I have 3 external monitors: 2 TV (Thompson and Samsung) and one AOC IPS 24" PC monitor. All of them only offering HDMI and/or VGA. No thunderbolt, no USB C. I'd like to connect my laptop to the AOC PC monitor, through HDMI. Though, I learnt the hard way, during my researches, that most "non gaming" laptop have their video outputs AND the integrated laptop monitor wired to the Intel integrated GPU, sadly giving more work to the processor (and heat) and also, that most of these laptop have a "fake" HDMI port that is "non native", and thus, these HDMI ports rely on a DP to HDMI adapter. On the top of that, Intel removed the ability to output FULL RANGE RGB if the monitor is hooked on a USB-C or DP to HDMI adapter. Apparently in previous drivers and generation of iGPUs, we could do it. But Intel apparently is stating that it wasn't working well, so they entirely removed the option. On both my Thompson and AOC monitor, colours and brightness look dull and washed out, because of the 16-235 range instead of the 0-255. Somehow, on the SAMSUNG TV, it looks great, but I guess this is due to some processing the TV does. I spent my last night reading tons of topics or threads on various forums, as well as Intel's ones, and no luck, no solution. They don't seem to care. "oh you poor folk with your fake HDMI output and FAKE GAMING LAPTOP, what did you expect ?" ... "oh you wanted a creative laptop that can game, for cheap? and you can't afford a Thunderbolt screen ?" ... "you don't get full range RGB". Of course my desktop PC with a 1050 Ti, can output full range on any screen. Even my older desktop PC with a ATI HD 5770 and early HDMI port can do this. Am I missing any work-around, or any way to force things, or is this unlucky? Do I really need to buy a Thunderbolt monitor in order to connect and external monitor on a 1400EUR laptop? This is so disappointing. I read that the last Dell XPS 15 that had the HDMI port ALSO had this issue, because the HDMI port was hooked to the Intel GPU and not the discrete NVIDIA 1050 Ti. Apparently, laptops whiches ports are wired to the NVIDIA or ATI GPUs can output full range through HDMI without any issue. Even if that port is hooked to a DP to HDMI adapter. Thanks for reading, and for your help Best regards

Solution : leaving Gigabyte for MSI. No more crashes, with a cheaper motherboard.

I just arrived on the desktop of a fresh Windows installation on a completely alone HDD... nothing exotic connected on the computer. Type my internet password, and processed to install the GPU only, the computer froze during the download. I really suspect the processor...

Already tried 2 others HDD and fresh installs... it also froze during the Windows 10 setup... (when you enter your name and password...) NO LUCK Tried with one stick of RAM... freeze. Tried the other... could play 45 minutes of GTA IV (low temps, nothing above 40°C in this fresh and cold morning)... and BOOM BSOD : WHEA Uncorrectable error

Cooler is Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO, temps never go over 45°C for the CU cores, SSD and GPU are about 35°C. Please enlight me, what is wrong with that CPU and motheroard combo? Thank you

Already removed it. It freezes during the setup process... (3 times)

Hi, So after 13 years with Core 2 Duo Dell desktop computer (don't worry I had laptops and another desktop that I had to sell in between)... it was finally time for a new machine. I opted for these parts: - Gigabyte B360M D3H motheroard - Intel Core i5-9600K processor - 2 x 8 GB G.Skill Value NT DDR4 2666 MHz CAS 19RAM sticks - Cooler Master MWE Gold 750 FM PSU and I had parts laying around : - EVGA GeForce GT740 GPU - Samsung EVO 250 GB SSD with my current Windows 10 setup, program, settings and files After taking all my time to assemble it and make a proper cable management... I booted it. I installed all the drivers (excepted Intel MEI that would NOT install)... and started using my new shiny computer. Oh, it's meant for simple audio recording, and oldschool games, no need for more power. I was already okay on i3 and 4GB of RAM laptop. And then some weird freezes appeared... on the desktop, on games... and on Windows 10 setup (last thing I tried when I finally concluded that these freezes weren't software related). What I tried : - removing anything unnecessary: USB WIFI, webcam, and audio interface, NVIDIA GPU - moved RAM sticked, 3 hours Memtest 86 with no error - safe mode with guru driver removal tool... (but well, if the computer does freeze on Windows 10 1903 installation...) - update BIOS, reset settings ... Basically everything in my mind. When it freezes, the reset button on the tower does nothing. After 20, it reboots on its own. GTA IV freezes after seconds of gaming, 3D Mark just crashes but the computer still works Both these behaviour happen with integrated UHD 630 or NVIDIA GT740, whatever if I disabled the integrated GPU in the BIOS or not... Please help :') and thank you!!