Kind of a sticky situation as I need my laptop to work :/ When I try to start the computer normally, I'm now stuck in a 'System Recovery' loop, that just searches for 5 minutes, tells me it finds nothing and tells me to restart the computer.īasically I can't access my computer, and I'm typing this from a friend. System will be restarted, please try f3 function later.' There's no progress bar, and after about 3 or so minutes it just tells me 'The recovery Environment is not normal. When doing the F3 thing the MSI recovery manager just tells me not to touch anything. What I tried with the recovery manager didn't work out at all. I could recommend that you get a can of pressurized air also to clean the beast out, sounds more like your getting it too hot rather than operation system malfunctions Hopefully you have two drives so you can put all your photos etc personal stuff on another drive, since it will erase everything from C: Never burned Windows like it asks you to, since the recovery is always on the harddrive anyway. Atleast this model doesnt ask for cd key (and i was never provided with one either), its pretty much just pressing next a few times and the job is done. This will install everything back to factory state. When you start the computer, pressing f3 before it goes to windows gives me the possibility for MSI recovery manager. I'd like some advice from anyone with a similar computer whether I need to burn whatever husk of a windows I have left before reformatting? Do I need to dig up some CD key from some document? Will this actually be a clean reformatting, or is there a better way of doing it?Ītleast for me, with a MSI GTx 683, its called F3 hotkey recovery function. When running it, it says that it'll completely remove everything on C and that it'll put everything back to default settings. I was also never provided a Windows 7 CD-key and never had to type one in when I installed windows after purchase.Īfter some fumbling around, I've come to the conclusion that reformatting would most probably be done from the W hard drive.

I never burned DVDs of Windows7, as I was never prompted to do so, and assumed they had another solution for it. The 'recommended settings' are all ultra, and currently I can't even play on 'lowest'. At this point I can't play SC2 without severe lag, and I felt it was time for a reformatting. I have a MSI gaming laptop that I haven't reformatted since I bought it two years ago. First of all, I'm a complete retard when it comes to computer, so bear with me.

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