MSI GT725 user reviews

diesel13 28 May 2009

Good: Amazing Performance

Bad: Hard to find XP Drivers

Comment: GT 725 OWNER: Im delighted to see that my recently purchased laptop is on this review with stuff magazine. This is an amazing laptop. I was lucky enough to get the higher spec model noted as the 2.53 Core 2 Duo, funny enough though mine came with a 500 GIG Western Digital HD and not the 320 GIG Western Digital One. So the specs do vary considerably ( I reside in the UK) and got it from Micro Anvika who were according to MSI UK Sales the only reps for this unit in the UK.

XP Installation and Drivers: This is the tricky bit: It took me ages to find the drivers for this baby, but after bickering with MSI continually I finally managed to get one of the Tech Heads to e-mail me a link to beleive it or not a rapidshare based download of the certfied MSI XP HD 4850 drivers, the other ones ara a doddle as the drivers can be installed off of the Vista Restore Drivers CD, although not stated for the most part work, some however require googling, and some jsut require right clicking on Windows Drivers for a standard Update which it manages to find. ANOTHER IMPORTANT POINT: You will need to slip stream AHCI ICH9 drivers so as to be able to support SATA in XP using Nlite into the actual Windows XP installation and burn the modified CD with the newer drivers. If you dont do this the machine continually boots into a Blue Screen while trying to install XP :P "good one MSI". Oh and bizarrely enough the SD card reader cant read SDHC ( I have done all respective firmware updates as well).

All in all a Labour of LOVE and worth every hard earned Sterling. Please ask me anything you like about this baby and I will be happy to help.

THANK YOU

PS: Below is the XP ATI 4850 Drivers for MSI GT725, as for the installation of ICH9 you have to learn how to slip stream using NLITE.

http://rapidshare.com/files/196361266/8.56-081112a-072696C-MSI-xp-cert.zip

ENJOY