yeah diskpart does the trick

er.. that one i don't know. i never used back tracker before. from what i've learned, it should be no problem. note that you should use fat32 for your recovery usb.

no problem man :/

for recovery usb created by back tracker, you shouldn't do anything from what i've read. read here.

the cd key in pid.txt is for OS installations other than untouched w8 (e.g. w8 pro). the w8 installer will pick up the key from bios.

uh? what's your w8 version? are you doing the clean install or using the recovery usb created by back tracker?

This post has been edited by horns: Aug 13 2013, 10:01 PM

if you opened up the administrative command prompt and issue slmgr /dlv what did the dialog tells you? you can upload the screen shot of it here.

edit: there is a possibility that the activation count for that oem key to be full, that leads to the failed attempts. i used advanced tokens manager to back up the tokens and restore it when i do clean install (without online activations). you can try use that tool to save the tokens from your stock drive, then use it to restore the activation.

edit2: make sure your oem key is correct for that token. you can verify the last 5 chars from the Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Action Center > Windows Activation.

yeah i never activated my copy of w8 pro more than once. i just restored the tokens (and i reinstalled clean OS in this g55 countless times dy. never failed)

This post has been edited by horns: Aug 13 2013, 10:32 PM

good luck man :/ i hope it's not the problem of the w8 single language version.

ah.. that's what i've suspected; the real cause of this :/

are you using the w8 usb (fat32)? if you do, you can try modify your w8 install usb by putting the ei.cfg in sources folder. the content of this ei.cfg are as follows:



you might wanna put the key in sources\pid.txt, too:



reinstall w8 with this modified one. good luck.

you should be fine reset them to defaults. the key now is to make the installer to be oem, instead of retail.

uh? how come? with the ei.cfg (oem as channel), the installer should be converted to oem install. this was tested before and worked.

maybe you can try to get the rtm version (e.g. this one)

so, what's your stock w8? can you show us the dialog for slmgr /dlv when you're in the stock w8? when i was helping at ROG, the friends there never had a problem doing clean install (well, if they do it correctly that is). the untouched w8 rtm iso was supposed to work well.

Ah.. You should have leave the stock drive alone for a bit :/ to me its the backup for normal users that is surely working when something is not right.

Really curious why you couldnt do a clean install or recover from recovery usb (especially this recovery usb; its simple to do, and it should be working even without touching bios)

zamanjaafar, good for you

it's not here even in september, from their product guide :/

yeah @Aura is correct, that will be no SKU with ssd here. it's much easier and cheaper to get standard ssd's and put them in.

hm.. i better spend my money elsewhere and have fun first instead of plain waiting. potong steam btul this asus :/

the way the msi explained warranty is funny. 30-day warranty.. he must be a new kid.

nice

yeah but if only msi comes with a 3d screen.

uh? what happened?

try create the recovery usb using the backtracker from g75vx and use that to restore the factory-state OS into ssd. alternatively, you can clone it using macrium reflect. lastly, do a clean install with matching w8.

no. you can access and replace everything which is in the user serviceable area (the area that is exposed to you when you take the back cover of your laptop off; basically this means the 2 accessible ram slots, and your hdd) without voiding warranty.

however, bear in mind that when you send it in for warranty, it is best to put the stock components back, and remove all the parts that you have replaced with the stock ones.

you want first-hand or second-hand? the best way to know all these is to do some leg work yourself and start check out the garage sales at lyn first.

the latest rog g-series in the market is g46 and g750, about 4k and 5k+ respectively.

cleaning up fans in g55 involves a teardown of the laptop (i.e. take out the battery, back cover, hard disk, keyboard, display panel, then flip the motherboard over to access the fans).

yeah it should have been designed to be more maintenance friendly.

Yeah its kind of prohibitive price wise :/