MSI GF65 Thin SD9

[Saiboogu]

This model was supported with the factory firmware, but when I applied a firmware update from the MSI website it no longer works.

╭─saiboogu@draco in ~ took 157ms ╰─λ sudo isw -cp MSI_ADDRESS_DEFAULT

EC dump 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 000000 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >................< 000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >................< 000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 80 c0 06 49 0b >..............I.< 000030 01 01 00 0d 50 0a 05 00 94 11 88 2c c2 01 c0 00 >....P......,....< 000040 fc 08 2d 00 d8 10 00 00 7c 07 e2 2c aa 0b fa 32 >..-.....|..,...2< 000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >................< 000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 00 37 40 49 4c 52 58 >........(.7@ILRX< 000070 64 26 26 2b 30 36 3c 46 55 00 08 03 03 03 03 03 >d&&+06<FU.......< 000080 2c 00 37 3d 43 49 4f 54 61 00 00 2b 30 36 3c 46 >,.7=CIOTa..+06<F< 000090 55 00 08 03 03 03 03 02 02 00 64 02 00 6e 00 00 >U.........d..n..< 0000a0 31 36 57 31 45 4d 53 31 2e 31 30 32 30 39 32 30 >16W1EMS1.1020920< 0000b0 32 30 31 39 30 39 3a 35 32 3a 35 32 12 11 40 40 >201909:52:52..@@< 0000c0 00 01 31 00 00 9e c0 00 00 59 00 00 00 d2 14 00 >..1......Y......< 0000d0 00 00 00 00 7f 00 d1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >................< 0000e0 e2 02 00 f7 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 95 00 b2 >................< 0000f0 00 00 80 83 0d 86 05 81 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >................< 000100

Profile dump Value set @ address Fan mode 0xd(13) 0xf4(byte244) Unknown

-----------CPU----------- -----------GPU----------- Value set @ address Value set @ address 0x37(55°C) 0x6a(byte106) 0x37(55°C) 0x82(byte130) 0x40(64°C) 0x6b(byte107) 0x3d(61°C) 0x83(byte131) 0x49(73°C) 0x6c(byte108) 0x43(67°C) 0x84(byte132) 0x4c(76°C) 0x6d(byte109) 0x49(73°C) 0x85(byte133) 0x52(82°C) 0x6e(byte110) 0x4f(79°C) 0x86(byte134) 0x58(88°C) 0x6f(byte111) 0x54(84°C) 0x87(byte135)

0x26(38%) 0x72(byte114) 0x0(0%) 0x8a(byte138) 0x2b(43%) 0x73(byte115) 0x2b(43%) 0x8b(byte139) 0x30(48%) 0x74(byte116) 0x30(48%) 0x8c(byte140) 0x36(54%) 0x75(byte117) 0x36(54%) 0x8d(byte141) 0x3c(60%) 0x76(byte118) 0x3c(60%) 0x8e(byte142) 0x46(70%) 0x77(byte119) 0x46(70%) 0x8f(byte143) 0x55(85%) 0x78(byte120) 0x55(85%) 0x90(byte144)

[beyond9thousand]

how did you manage to get this to work?

[Saiboogu]

It wasn't a BIOS issue - it was a release problem. The version of ISW in the Github repo is ahead of the release installed by AUR. So ironically when I switched to Arch ISW regressed to a prior version. I mistakenly blamed this on the BIOS update I did around the same time. When I went back to the Github version all was well again.