Ok, my laptop has a pretty serious issue here.

The laptop fan has suddenly becomes so loud, I can hear it from 10m away. It sounds like grinding.

It started all of a sudden today. I had to show a presentation to a few big people, when my laptop suddenly made loud grinding noise as soon as I turned it on! Sometimes the sounds was screeching like mouse, it was so embarrassing. Lucky enough someone else brought a laptop so I borrowed his.

BUT DAMN I WAS SO PISSED OFF!

When I returned home, I removed the back cover and the fan, and there was some dust collecting around and on the fan, nothing significant, I've had much worse dust accumulation with my previous laptop but it never caused noisy fan. I wiped everything clean, and when I put the fan back the sound seemed gone. But as soon as I assembled everything, the freaking grinding sound returned! I disassembled the fan again, and I couldn't seem to find any reason for the grinding sound. Sometimes the sound disappeared for 1-2 sec when shook the fan, but overall it was noisy as hell. I could hear it from the next room.

This poor quality is just unacceptable to me. Anyone else have this issue? I want to send this for repair but I need to go to KL, so far. Maybe I'll go this weekend or next week after CNY.

I can bear with the high GPU temperature, but loud noisy fan drives me crazy! I am typing this post while trying to tahan hearing the grinding noise!

MSI guys how to fix this issue? FYI the fan vibrates when I hold it. Sounds like defective fan.

This post has been edited by alphaz: Feb 4 2013, 11:50 PM

No issues for me. They have a service center in Kelana Jaya. I sent mine there.

they have service center nationwide, check my.msi.com for the location.

This model still selling? I don't even see it on the products listing on the MSI website, by far the cheapest laptop with a FHD screen, I got mine at a really fantastic deal!

Looking for MSI notebook reseller in JB, anyone got any information pm me better close to singapore

ahh.. good old days

Hello.
I want replace broken HD screen in my notebook GE620dx-656XPL with FHD screen from GE620DX-278US.
I need something more than screen or not?

Fast forward to 2018, currently still use the same GE 620DX but with upgraded parts, ayam miskin.

Little upgrade




Kingston Hyper X SSD & Seagate Firecuda (replace CDRom)

System Memory RAM 8GB to 16GB DDR3L 1066

CPU from factory i7 2630QM upgrade to i7 2760QM

Battery refill /re-cell upgrade from 4400mAh to 6800mAh

Display panel from 1366 x 768 to 1080p






Future upgrade/other

- keyboard need replacement (some key are not so responsive but still working) & backlit DIY
- RAM to 32GB ( new cpu support it )
- i7 2860QM (same tdp)
- Ext GPU
- Water cooling (loop) DIY

Hope this machine can serve more for coming years!

This post has been edited by Swordsmen: Feb 12 2018, 04:23 PM

Still using it to do lot of stuff, well keep and well maintain since the assembly door got direct contact with all the hardware.. heck i even play RE7 with this hahaa

Lol, status update after more than 5 years later...

I replaced the defective CPU fan a few years ago, bought from Aliexpress for USD9.00. That fixed the overheating problem. Also bought a cooler pad that helped a lot. I think this laptop has shitty air ventilation and heat conducting. It needs bigger ventilation fins for sure.

Last week I replaced the Kingmax 128GB SSD with a Kingston A400 480GB SSD, and did a fresh Windows 10 reinstall using the Win7 key. Updated all drivers and the touch pad is not buggy anymore. The plastic moulding around the screen hinge has broken, really shitty build quality. Screen used to randomly turn off and turn back on when I smack it, but the problem seems to be gone after reinstalling Windows 10. The battery has been dead for years, replaced with a China battery that also died a few years ago. Probably circuit problem I don't know. A few keyboard keys are not responsive unless pressed hard, I hate typing on this laptop and gaming also ruined. For some reason ants love this laptop and this is what might caused all those issues.

I spent RM2500 on this laptop which was a good deal back then because of FHD MATTE screen (nowadays most laptops have glossy screen), decent GPU, SSD, Legit Windows 7 (box still unopened), and Razer Abyssus gaming mouse. But MSI has shitty support.

Nowadays I wouldn't spend that much on a laptop, so I'll keep this going as long as I can. Planning to add more RAM. 4GB is puny.

This post has been edited by alphaz: Oct 6 2018, 01:16 AM