Question Asus ROG Strix X870E-E RGB issue

[JayGau]

Hey guys, I have a "problem" with the RGB logo on my Strix X870E-E motherboard and cannot find anything relevant online so I though someone here could have an idea. Next step would be to contact Asus I guess. Or just leave it off, but I payed 400$ for this board so I would expect that something as basic as a RGB logo would work for this price.

So here is the issue: as usual, the default RGB mode for the Asus logo on the board is this ugly rainbow wave. In the BIOS, you can set it to on, off or Windows Dynamic Lighting. No way to set a solid color in the BIOS (Asus don't do that, for some reason). I absolutely don't want to leave Armoury Crate running on my PC. This crappy software had caused so many problems when I had it installed and anyway, I have enough software running in background right now (iCUE and G Hub).

What I used to do was to install Armoury Crate to set the RGB and then uninstall it with the Asus uninstall tool. With my old board it worked and it was remembering the setting forever but with this one it just doesn't work. As soon as I uninstall the software and reboot the PC the rainbow is back. I also tried to set the "Shutdown effect" lighting mode but it doesn't work with the newest version of Armoury Crate (people reported this problem on forums) and anyways, as I understood this is only for when the computer is off or sleeping (if you wake it up it goes back to the regular mode).

Since I couldn't find a way to set the default RGB to something else than the ugly rainbow, I decided to try the Windows Dynamic Lighting and it worked... until the computer went to sleep. When it wakes up, the rainbow is back and I have to go to the Windows Dynamic Lighting settings and manually turn it off and on again to get my solid color back. I noticed that if I set a lightning effect that is moving, it seems to actually be running behind the rainbow after the computer wakes up. It's like the Windows lighting is still working, but waking up the computer makes the default rainbow turning on and running over it (and turning off and on Windows Lighting turns off the rainbow so I can see my custom color again). I don't understand why Windows Dynamic Lighting can take over the default rainbow when I boot, but cannot do it when the computer wakes up from sleep.

Also, since I have to use iCUE for my keyboard, AIO and fans, I cannot just blindly install another RGB software like OpenRGB or SignalRGB. I could break iCUE which is infinitely more important than the Asus logo. If anyone has any ideas (or has a similar issue) please let me know.

ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi
Ryzen 9800X3D
Corsair iCUE H150i Elite LCD XT
Corsair Vengeance 6000 MHz CL30 64 GB
MSI RTX 4080 Gaming X Trio
Corsair RM1000x

 

[Lutfij]

Asus Armory Crate has been hit or miss as of late. You could try and see if a BIOS update and/or firmware update(if pending) helps alleviate the issue.

As for using something like OpenRGB or SignalRGB, they have been known to break platforms. Speaking of RGB, didn't Corsair have a plugin for Asus gear meaning all their lighting would be sync'd without the need for Asus's Armory Crate?

 

[JayGau]

Asus Armory Crate has been hit or miss as of late. You could try and see if a BIOS update and/or firmware update(if pending) helps alleviate the issue.

As for using something like OpenRGB or SignalRGB, they have been known to break platforms. Speaking of RGB, didn't Corsair have a plugin for Asus gear meaning all their lighting would be sync'd without the need for Asus's Armory Crate?

Yeah I know about Armoury Crate and it's why I don't want it running on my machine. Aura was not super good but still better than this invasive software. When you need a special uninstaller to get rid of everything it installed, it's because something is wrong. If I uninstall iCUE it gets uninstalled without leaving multiple things running behind. Looks like Asus programmers don't know how to do that.

My BIOS is up to date (I updated it a couple of weeks ago). There are some firmware updates available on the Asus site but they are for the USB controller. But I honestly think Asus does it like this in purpose to force us to use their bloatware. If they put an option to set some basic effects from the BIOS (like Gigabyte does) nobody would ever install Armoury Crate. But if they could at least allow us to change the default effect even from Armoury Crate it would already be much less upsetting.

Sadly, the iCUE Asus plugin only works if Armoury Crate is installed. People keep asking for this and for some reason iCUE can't take control of Asus RGB without Armoury Crate (I tried it and it indeed only works with Armoury Crate). So, the plugin basically kind of allows you to use Armoury Crate through iCUE, which makes it totally useless according to me.

Windows Dynamic Lighting would do the job just fine if it didn't break after sleep. I mean, it works very well and it's officially supported by Asus since the option is literally in the BIOS, but I don't know if it's a problem with Windows or the board but this stupid rainbow doesn't turn off when the pc wakes up (but it does when I boot so it's clearly a bug with the sleep/wake up process).