MSI P65: How to loosen the hinge?

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:12:45 -0700

My hinge is so tight that the screen cover is bending and will break unless the hinge effort is lessened. I don't see any adjustment nut, like on the older models.

I've greased the hinge with a very high quality marine grease (Evinrude Triple-Guard). That did loosen the hinge a bit. But the real problem is that the tight hinge caused the hinge's mount on the lid to break free. It is apparently glued to the metal lid with some high-strength epoxy (I can see a slight rim of clear brown between the lid and the mount at the good hinge). So I tried using a rear-view mirror adhesive (JB Weld's "MirrorWeld", no. 33701). But that was hard to use - the accelerator wiping stick does not fit between the lid and the mount, so I had to transfer accelerator to a Qtip and use that. After an overnight cure, it seemed good initially, but the bond failed after a few uses of the lid hinge. Since MirrorWeld is specifically for glass and metal, it is possible that it is unable to bond to the hinge mount, which appears to be a type of plastic. Anyone successfully bonded the hinge mount? Or does anyone know of the original bonding product that MSI uses?

Update 2/22/2023

I've re-glued the hinge mount, this time with JB Weld's WaterWeld putty. Sticky stuff, usually good on plastic. It doesn't smear thinly, even with a clamp, so the corner of the bezel is sticking up a bit. But as long as it works! So far, it's sticking.

FYI, if you need to screw through the cover, the original screws are M2-0.4 x 2mm long, with 7mm diameter wafer heads. I think you can go through the cover if you use 6mm long screws, and add a washer and nut on the outside. See https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073R6T747

⟐ Answered March 18, 2024 at 19:12 MST

MSI P65: No battery detected or charging light after installing new battery

Sun, 17 Sep 2023 18:28:19 -0700

I recently replaced my MSI laptop battery, which had only 33.5 Wh capacity left out of its originally rated 80.25 Wh, with a new battery from iFixit. However, when I installed the new battery Windows tells me "No battery detected" and the charging indicator light on the front of the laptop doesn't light up. As far as I can tell, the connector is the same as my old battery and is seated correctly, and when I reinstalled the old battery my laptop recognized it perfectly fine. Does anyone have any tips on what might be going wrong? Thank you!

Reading forums online, I've tried removing the AC adapter and holding the power button for 30 seconds, holding the EC reset switch for 30 seconds, and uninstalling the Device Manager driver for "Microsoft ACPI Compliant Control Method Battery" before restarting. Nothing seems to work, and I'm hoping there's an easy fix someone knows rather than me just getting a dud battery that had sat on the warehouse shelf for too long. If it's worth anything, using a voltmeter my new battery voltage is ~14.9V out of its rated 15.2V, while my old battery was outputting 17V (although out of a rated 15.2V).

⟐ Answer accepted September 17, 2023 at 18:28 MST

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MSI P65: No battery detected or charging light after installing new battery