I was cleaning my fan and when I put it all back together the fan started making this humming noise and the whole laptop was vibrating. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this?

When I turn on my laptop after a minute or so its battery gets completely drained. I had this issue a while ago but after changing a few settings it seemed to be fixed, now it is happening again. Apart from that laptop is working perfectly well and if I take it of the charger while it got some percentage it doesn't do that anymore, just after the first powering. Msi center shows battery master function as ok. Battery report in the photo.

Laptop is MSI Katana 17 B13V

What are your thoughts on this laptop if you have it or are thinking about buying it. The cheapest version cost $1,100 but my main question is why there's a big bezel a the bottom in 2026

Is there a reason MSI keeps the big bezel and not make the screen 16:10 when everyone does it. I bought the MSI GS43VR 7RE when it came out in 2017 and it was good

I'm guessing MSI keeps the bezel big to show it's a MSI laptop, I might just go with a Lenovo or Asus laptop instead.

My Katana 15 HX with an RTX 5070 never goes above about 55 W GPU power, even in a GPU-only stress test with the CPU idle and temps in the 50s. MSI lists up to 115 W (with Dynamic Boost, "may vary by scenario"). Is this normal, or can anyone get more out of theirs?

**Laptop**

- MSI Katana 15 HX B14WGK, i7-14650HX, RTX 5070 Laptop GPU, 16 GB RAM

- Windows 11 Pro, NVIDIA driver 591.44

- Original 240 W charger, plugged in

- BIOS: updated from E1587IMS.105 to E1587IMS.108

**Settings**

- MSI Center: Extreme Performance, Discrete Graphics Mode

- Windows power mode: Best Performance

- "NVIDIA Platform Controllers and Framework" and the Intel Dynamic Tuning components are installed, with no errors in Device Manager

**What I measured**

- `nvidia-smi -q -d POWER` shows Default, Current and Requested Power Limit = 55 W, Max = 115 W

- FurMark GPU test, 5 minutes, CPU idle: the GPU held 54.8 to 55.0 W at 49 to 57 C and about 1,500 MHz. The only active throttle reason was SW Power Cap (no thermal slowdown, no power brake)

- After the BIOS update, a combined CPU + GPU FurMark gave the CPU about 100 W and the GPU about 55 W

- In games the GPU also stays under 60 W

- `nvidia-smi -pl 115` gives "Changing power management limit is not supported"

- MSI Center's advanced menu only has core/VRAM clock offsets and fan speed, no power limit

**Questions**

1. Does your Katana 15 HX 5070 go above 55 W under load?

2. Is 55 W the normal base on this model, with Dynamic Boost only kicking in in some scenarios? What triggers it?

3. Did a specific BIOS version or MSI Center setting change it for you?

If you can, run this while stressing the GPU and tell me what you see:

`nvidia-smi --query-gpu=pstate,power.draw,power.limit,temperature.gpu,clocks.sm --format=csv -l 1`

I'm happy to share my full logs.

Thanks!

I tried undervolting my CPU using these settings, but I think I may have reduced performance after setting PL1 to 55W and PL2 to 70W. I later found out that this laptop can draw up to 100W for CPU-only workloads, so I’m thinking I should adjust the TPL limits. As for the ratios, should I increase them to reach 5 GHz?

For the GPU, I settled on 2707 MHz at 850 mV. Although I haven’t tested it extensively yet, this seems to have reduced temperatures by around 6°C and power consumption by 12W. However, after running Cinebench R23 GPU Test, I got 46,000 points without undervolting and 43,000 with undervolting, which is a performance loss of roughly 7%.

What would you recommend to avoid losing performance while keeping the benefits of undervolting? Should I try overclocking the GPU memory?

I’d also really appreciate it if anyone with the same hardware could share their CPU and GPU undervolting settings.

My specs:

- Laptop: MSI Katana 15 HX

- CPU: Intel Core i7-14650HX

- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU (8 GB VRAM)

I got a laptop, I don't really know anything about it, really, and I had this laptop for 2-3 years? I've been told this is a gaming laptop, and it does feel very heavy compared to other laptops. I'm assuming it can take on heavy tasks. The main concern here is that my parents don't want me to use it while it's plugged in. I'm not really into prolonged gaming, and I'm just a casual roblox player with 1-2 hours of screen time at most. My laptop turns off once it reaches 30 percent, and I opted to plug in my charger when I play with my friends. My parents caught me playing for 5 minutes while my laptop was plugged in. Is it really that big of a deal? I've researched that laptops work better when there's no battery/energy restrictions. Am I at fault? ☹️

I bought my laptop in June 2026. When I first turned it on, I noticed that it had 31.7 GB of RAM. Two or three days ago, I performed a factory reset using MSI Recovery, but now it shows 36 GB of RAM. How can I reset it to 32 GB? I have tried MSI Recovery several times, but the RAM amount never returns to 32 GB.

MSI Vector 16 HX AI A2XWIG-405PL-G2A 16" IPS 240Hz U9-275HX 32GB RAM 1TB SSD GeForce RTX5080 Windows 11 Home.

I need help.