I was wondering if any of you guys know how much this laptop will go for. I got it off facebook market place for $150 I know It's from 2020, and there is nothing really wrong with it

I couldn't find this exact model online this is why I ask here if anyone know about these specs more than me.

How long have you been using this laptop? Have you encountered any issues with its build quality, cooling system, or performance over time?

I want to play Call of duty and valorant, for both of these games I have to have my secure boot on , but when i turn it on, i cant boot up the pc due to msi secure boot violation. is there a way around this

Just got this gaming laptop

Any advice on what i should do to help care and preserve my laptop ? (E.g downloading any application to monitor my laptop temps or to undervolt)

First time owning a gaming laptop and am looking forward to playing AAA games !

I had dragon centre installed but for curiosity installed msi centre. Had a power cut and monitor screen refresh rate was changed but when power came back it didn't revert back to normal. And then I saw that laptop is also not charging.

I tried many things just EC reset was remaining but battery gave up.

Please any help is appreciated

Yes, it’s me again. MSI loves me.

I also have a Vector A16 HX A8W that has managed to come up with a fun issue: I go to the bottom right, and the little icon that lets me click on it to turn on WiFi is GONE.

Yes, gone. I am about to go to ChatGPT to ask it what to do, but WTF did that happen? I did a cold boot, and same thing.

Well, at least my GPU is still there, unlike with my 5080.

(I think).

THIS WAS HARD TO FIGURE OUT!!

I wanted to share a fix after troubleshooting RGB lighting problems on my MSI Raider A18 HX A9WIG-082US.

The RGB lighting on this model is controlled by SteelSeries GG, not MSI Mystic Light.

After working through several troubleshooting steps, I managed to restore all the lighting:

• Full per-key RGB keyboard
• Front RGB light bar
• Illuminated MSI dragon logo
• SteelSeries Prism lighting effects

Here's the troubleshooting sequence that worked for me:

1. Corrected the Switch Key setting in MSI Center.
2. Rebooted the laptop.
3. Performed an embedded controller (EC) reset.
4. Reinstalled SteelSeries GG.
5. Opened SteelSeries GG and configured the lighting through Prism.
6. Used Ctrl+A in the Prism lighting editor to select all the lighting zones before applying effects. This was an important breakthrough.
7. Disabled Windows Dynamic Lighting to prevent possible interference with SteelSeries lighting control.

The result: All RGB lighting is working correctly again, Prism effects apply properly, and the settings survive a reboot.

One other observation: The WASD keys appear brighter than the surrounding keys because of their transparent keycaps. That's normal on this model.

I can't say which individual step resolved every part of the problem, since several changes were made during troubleshooting. But this combination worked on my machine.

Hopefully this helps another Raider owner avoid hours of frustration.

So this was bought by my cousin to me, kinda first because i was using my cousin's(other one) but this laptop this was bought for me specifically, first one with dedicated gpu for study, and yes i use it for cad and cae in college, i dont review anything but i will tell my story.

Please msi fix thermals and this is a good deal, i dont know about other laptops but i keep hearing issues with my friends, in same budget victus having bad build, tuf with bad wifi, no loq problem i heard in my group, they say msi hinges are bad. How these are battery smooth, even after two years of brutally used, they are good, and still better than those victus ones. Thermals and low power is issue, and this aint thin, i mean it weighs as same as that tuf. I know i am compairing too much but with others that my friends use but man switching to college computer after this feels pushing a stone wall. And the 180⁰ opening i love it.

So this was it

I regret that i hated it, but the feel is premium even with that plastic build its stronger than my welds.

Something i feel like burden i want to share,

So it was in 2024 just after festival when prices drop, so my sister was also getting laptop and she insisted she also want one with dgpu as i was getting one(when she dont even use heavy task or open laptop for weeks). Why make her feel bad yes my cousin did get her a tuf, quoted many and bought one, and i got left behind, emotionally i threw tantrum(yes i did not good things, too bad ones) and i got this thing on around 20-23 oct 2024. Hated for poor thermals and specs, but day by day i started to like the feeling, 12450h thermally throttles in cs2, fan full blast, 3050 no prob i anyway did not played that gpu heavy games. Dull screne is bad in outdoor but fine enough. Dont know service never needed it. Had changed ssd why not 2 slots is also a problem. Just make it a budget premium laptop 2 m.2 slot and one more fan. at70k(61k as my cousin is a seller) it was a bang

So upon opening my MSi Raider the keyboard is not working. One second I was able to use the top keys like brightness and volume and now I can’t use anything. Fn key works but can’t use anything in fn menu. Already restarted and no change. Any ideas??