OK boils and ghouls, I got a rid of one tinker toy and came across another for a little while.

Yes, once again Windows 10. But it is plausible it is also helpful for Win 11 and even a little useful for linux folks hunting down some driver information.

Which is why I am posting this. Because the laptops are pretty new. I figure I will be nice enough to save whomever googles a few key things, may come across my nugget of info here.

So here ya go!

If you grab all of the official drivers from MSI and found one missing PCI device driver remaining. It is actually over at Intel, under a NPU compute accelerator driver. Go figure.

MSI Official drivers:
https://www.msi.com/Business-Productivity/Prestige-13-AI-plus-Evo-A2VMX/support?sub_product=Prestige-13-AIplussign-Evo-A2VMG#driver

Caveat: After you unpack the MSI drivers, you will have to right click the "install.bat" file and Run as Administrator. Except for one of the Audio drivers. There is one Realtek audio driver, that fails using the install.bat file. Though a Setup .exe is deeper in its folder that works for it. It seems like it hangs, but it takes several minutes to finish.

FYI- You can scroll to Utilities and get MSI Center S, in which it has a battery bypass option. Ranging from 60-80%. Well...sort of. It is either 60 or 80%. But I literally just checked it out as I type this and it does stop at 80% confirmed.




EDIT WARNING for the intel NPU driver below. It wont do anything in Win10 except satisfy Device Manager saying it is missing. Read my comment lower in the thread about. Im leaving it up incase Win11 users need it.
The NPU missing driver can be found from intel here:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/794734/intel-npu-driver-windows.html

Yeah, I know it says Win11 only. But hey, it works in Win 10. So dont complain, as I did the footwork for you :)

The windows Device Manager would show a PCI missing driver. If you look through the Property Details menues for it. You will find this reference:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV643E&SUBSYS_14641462&REV_04

After you download the NPU intel driver, you will unpack it and "Update" that missing driver. To do so, right click the missing pci item in Device Manager and choose Driver Update. Choose Browse and show it the NPU folder you unpacked. It will then install the parts it needs and you can refresh the Device Manager, to see you now have everything installed.

If anyone is afraid to lose access to Win10 for compatible gaming, this may be a laptop for you. A few people are fiddling with it to get linux flavor running on it too.

Good luck!

That's good advice. Thanks for that. I had a heck of a time setting up my MSI initially because of missing drivers, and a crappy Intel wifi driver from MSI that kep causing bluescreens. My personal advice (to kind of mirror yours) is to download straight from the manufacturer whenever possible.

I hated that to install the Intel SerialIO driver, I had to unpack the zip, and one by one right click install on every inf to install many of the device drivers (per MSI's instructions). MSI could do better to be honest.

By the way, I ran Server 2019 for a long time. It was essentially Windows 10, and Win10 drivers worked just fine with it. So it can be done.

Well I goofed the "missing pci driver". Just to inform everyone; Windows 10 does not have NPU compatible aspects to it. Though you can install the intel driver, it should be noted, it is only to satisfy the Device Manager from stating it is missing something. As no "AI" software functions in Win10.

Oh and if you install it, disable it. If you do not disable it or just leave it alone uninstalled. You will have the OS break in random ways. One example is: Open Task Manager--> Performance; The manager will crash immediately when clicking Performance tab.

Yeah....sorry, first time playing with this laptop. But now you know this. You can save yourself some frustration, wondering wtf it is.

After reading some info about the NPU AI mumbo jumbo. It seems Win10 software shouldnt even try to do anything with that component. Being incompatible with Win10 and all. So if you cruise in Win10 or linux flavors on this machine, you shouldnt see any major problems.....maybe xD

I avoid vendor-specific drivers after I noticed over and over again that at least HP's official laptop drivers, e.g. Intel and NVidia graphics drivers, were often several years old.

Hence, whenever I get a new laptop, I delete everything from the hard drive (including any vendor-specific Windows recovery partitions), reinstall Windows with MS Media Creation Tool (ie. not using vendor stuff), let it install any graphics drivers etc. with Microsoft update, and then maybe download and install the latest graphics drivers from NVidia and/or Intel.

If it gives your pickle a tickle; With every new machine I get my hands on, before anything else. I use a variety of linux tools to scrub the entire system. I find fewer problems that way. This also includes digging through the BIOS.

But thanks for chiming in. Sometimes I dont see any response. I figure, it may help someone, but I wont know.

For several months I have been reading how people are panicking, regarding With 10 getting the commoners axe. Win11 is just dog shit. Thus a few tinker notes for computers I have had pass by me, may help ease the pain for anyone able to afford them.

edit;

Oops....got sidetracked and almost forgot why I came in here.

BIOS note: When disabling TPM in this machine for tests. The entire reference disappears, until you shutdown and reboot the machine. So if you toggle it to Disabled, dont crap yourself. It comes back. The developers are just keeping us on our toes for fun ;)

....as in, the entire option to toggle it on or off.....not the function turning itself on.....if that was not clear

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I am seeing this laptop using 1% battery, for each day it is completely powered off and unplugged. Seems to drop while not in use rather quickly.

Also getting a repeated problem showing up in the Event Viewer. Every startup,

Windows Logs/Applications:
Security-SPP / code1040 "Hardware has changed from previous boot"

Never seen this happen in a laptop where no components were changed before. Anyone have any ideas? If anyone with a windows computer would look through your event viewer for me, check for code 1040(all codes on the right side).

Fresh install and os activated.

I am concerned if it is because of modern laptops, having some new components that triggers Win10 into thinking something has changed. I am also wondering if the Legion Go pc had the same problem....before the whole os got corrupted. Yeah that machine had the os functioning fine for almost a month. Then I belly up to the work bench and turned it on. The os was so corrupted, as to be not able to be used. The Go pc was locked into an evaluation state. SLUI 4 was broken and no other os key input option functioned either. Totally at random. No malware. Just killed itself.

Now Im paranoid about this new laptop. Since I no longer have the Go pc. I cant compare the lead up.

Shot in the dark, but has anyone else had a similar problem?

So I have not found the cause of this problem. As long as the detection doesnt think the motherboard has changed.....it should not deactivate the os. But since I cant find the source of the problem, that seems of no comfort.

I have disabled the Killer suite. The Intelligo garbage and other possible triggers, like Shadow Copy. All things that sre bloatware anyway. But nothing explicitly tells the user wtf the cause is....typical computer malarky.

Though, to be fair as of typing right now, the device works as normal and is activated still.

As far as I have read, OEM keys can allow hardware changes as many times as the user wants. So long as the motherboard remains the same. Sooooo....who knows. If anyone buys one or has one to test out, feel free to chime in.