The SELENITE Pro uses the same motherboard and thermal as the mentioned MAG15 laptop, the only differences are the GPU options, screen refresh rate and keyboard.

Hope clarify.

This post has been edited by Prince J: Jan 7 2020, 11:03 PM

Interesting. Seems that only the chassis is different among all these models while the actual board is the same. Thanks for clearing that up

This post has been edited by Jared21: Jan 7 2020, 11:59 PM

No problem, happy to help. We are also liaising with factory FAE in regards to the pop sound, will get back as soon as we receive an update from them.

This will apply to all laptop including Selenite right?

All our other models do not have this issue, it only happened on the previous SELENITE (non pro) and the factory FAE told us that other market users have never complaint about this. Therefore it will take us sometime to send back the system to have them check on it. We did send once few months back and the FAE couldn't find out anything.

Anything we will keep you guys updated.

Thank you. I am currently using Selenite, which I have this popping sound problem.

I also noticed the sound produced from the speaker is not balance. Is it due to the subwoofer is located at right side of the laptop causing this problem? I can hear that left side sound is louder than right side sound.

Use this to fix your popping sound

Uninstall your sound blaster and current realtek drivers and only install the realtek driver in the link from Asrock. Then you can open up the OG realtek sound manager and tune it to your liking. I used the rock preset and change a couple of levels and it sounds basically the same as when tuning with the SB software

This post has been edited by Jared21: Jan 8 2020, 11:49 AM

I did some setting with the power management, which reduce the popping sound. Just that I notice the sound is unbalance from the speaker. Do you feel that?

before you send the unit back to factory, did you guys test it out and verified the issue exist on your end?

Don't really feel that on my unit.

When messing around with the volume levels for the main speakers and the sub, the level of the sub doesnt affect anything on my end and it sounds perfectly balanced when using

Perhaps it is the audio driver again which cause the unbalance sound

Most likely its something to do with the speaker balance. Perhaps its more towards one side

The subwoofer is attached on one side of the speaker.

Have a feeling that its probably his left and right channels which are out of balance

Illegear staff: Will flashing another reseller's bios void warranty? Am looking to flash the XMG bios

To anyone with the Selenite or Onyx suffering from unusually high package power draw, follow these steps. Full credit to eddi3x3x3 on the notebookreview forum:

1. DO NOT use geforce experience
2. Reinstall the nvidia drivers using the NVcleaninstaller (https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...an-installer-for-nvidia-drivers-alpha.249085/)

When you run the NVcleaninstaller, make sure you select the following:
1. Display Driver (need this obviously)
2. PhysX
3. HD Audio via HDMI
4. Microsoft Visual C 2017 Runtime
5. Optimus (Need that battery life right?)
6. USB-C driver (need this for display port over usb C)
7. Shield Wireless Controller (only if you plan to stream gameplay to another device, otherwise leave it unchecked)
8. Virtual Audio
Leave everything else unchecked until nvidia fixes this issue. My CPU wattage went down from an idle 12 W average to 1-2 W average.

I'm now getting less than 1w idle on both battery and while plugged in and this fix sticks through restarts. Who needs nvidia's dumb telemetry and GFE anyways. C states also drop down to C8 with mine being around 50 to 60% in C8

This post has been edited by Jared21: Jan 14 2020, 09:42 PM

Didn't expect GeForce Experience to be the reason for this issue.

Its not exactly GFE per say. Rather its one of the components in the driver thats causing the massive power draw. In all honestly GFE and all the other stuff not needed for gaming just bloat running in the background along with the nvidia telemetry. As long as you keep your drivers somewhat up to date its all good. Theres even a subreddit dedicated to the benchmarks of nvidia drivers

Here is windows new estimate of my battery life. So taking in to account typical use at college with documents and the occasional youtube or spotify on break, i'd say i can comfortably get at least 5 and a half to 6 hours maximum of real world use with this fix


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Followed everything to the dot, still no change. Lowest I get is 11.2W. Freaking uncore is always using 11W.