Question If you have an Asrock motherboard are you stuck with using Polychrome Sync?

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Or can you shut it off and use third party software? All 6 of my neon defused LED strips as well as 2 Phantek fan frames are all synced together. The 3 LED on my Z490 Taichi motherboard are synced together. But the MOBO LED and the 2 ARGB headers are not sync together. Quite annoying. I want all LED to run the same color and I can do that for things like static or any other mode that lets me pick colors. But for ones that don't like wave. The 3 MOBO LED will be different from the rest. lol For something with sync in the name you'd think it'd be easier to sync. Especially since all 1s and 0s are going off the same motherboard. I mean I could understand if I was using some sort of LED control box. Why on Earth is the 2 ARGB headers not getting the same signal as however the motherboard LED are wired is using?
 
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ASRock Polychrome synch will only work with Asrock motherboards and compatible devices.

There is an option in BIOS can turn off the RGB LED when system shutdown.
BIOS Path: Advanced > Chipset Configuration > Turn On Onboard LED in S5 > Disabled.
*After changing the BIOS setting, press F10 to save the configuration.
 
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SteveRX4 said:
ASRock Polychrome synch will only work with Asrock motherboards and compatible devices.

There is an option in BIOS can turn off the RGB LED when system shutdown.
BIOS Path: Advanced > Chipset Configuration > Turn On Onboard LED in S5 > Disabled.
*After changing the BIOS setting, press F10 to save the configuration.
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Thanks but I've already moved on to Corsair's ICUE using Asus/Asrock/MSI to Corsair, as well as JST-SM to Corsair cable adapters, to get ICUE to work with non Corsair products. You just have to keep it under 60 LED per channel which is almost my only complaint about ICUE. That and the lighting node pro or the comander pro only has 2 LED channels each. Still, ICUE is faaaaar superior to Polychrome. If Corsair was set on dominating the market with ICUE instead of trying to make people have to buy their over expensive Corsair products to use it, they'd own the rgb market by now and "everyone" would be using it. The ability to set each individual LED as well as having more modes to begin with and multiple modes at once, and the ability to make your own modes to boot. Makes it lightyears ahead of their competition.

What you suggested wouldn't have helped me anyways. I already knew how to do that and had looked up how to do that after my first night with this PC to get it to shut off when the PC is off. That wasn't the problem. The problem is Polychrome can't even sync its RGB headers with its ARGB headers on an Asrock board. That's simply embarrassing. The motherboard LED are synced with the RGB headers, NOT the ARGB headers. Not to mention it's also just another example of how sad Polychrome is when you have to change a setting in BIOS just for RGB anything. Asrock seriously needs to either step up their game or give up entirely and adopt someone else's software when it comes to RGB. How they are now makes them the worse in my opinion in the RGB department. lol FFS this simple 12v controller works as good if not better than Polychrome.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000866279035.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.57c94c4dWEFapU
I could excuse them if Polychrome was new but it's been out for years now. If one judges the entirety of Asrock off their RGB they'd be forced to come to conclusion that one should stay away from their products. And it's not just my opinion, based on my research it's about universally considered to be the worst RGB software.

And BTW that's not true. lol Though I don't know why anyone would want to, Polychrome will work with whatever has its kind of 3 pin plugs like Asus Aura or MSI mystic light products or loads of other third party RGB products that use the same connections. For example it was able to control my Thermaltake Pacific R1 RAM cover using it's supplied ARGB header adapter. If you can call it working anyways with modes the almost most basic of controllers can do.
 
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I'm going on what ASRock says. In order to answer the question you put in your post heading.

I gather there are compatible devices. I'm not sure if they're listed somewhere. And I'm not sure if the device literature imndicates their compatibility with ASsrock's rgb platform.

It looks like a lot of people are having problems with rgb. I think we're a long way from being able to expect that they should all be compatible. That means some trial and error is needed.
 
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Asrock is wrong then. Or they are merely not explaining properly. You can also do the opposite of what I was asking and use Polychrome on a non Asrock MOBO. It just more than likely won't be able to control the LED that comes with a competitors MOBO.
More often than not and by a wide margin when products are talking compatibility, they are just referring the connection type, not the software. Asrock, Asus, MSI, and a bunch of others use either 12v 4pin RGB or 5v 3 pin ARGB connectors. Corsair uses their own type. Phantek and Airgoo uses JST-SM. Gigabyte has their own too but I forget its name. ETC. Technically everything is compatible with everything if you can wire it up properly without blowing it like trying to use 5v on a 12v. Or by overloading it with too much amps or watts. It's just LED lights. Corsair makes it harder to be compatible by being so good to begin with. Since each LED is addressable it's capped at certain numbers of LED and you can't just split its signal with something like this
https://www.amazon.com/Timack-Split...uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl
That's the only thing Polychrome has on ICUE. I imagine the others using 5v3pin are the same with that box or its 12v 4pin version. With that splitter box and Polychrome I was able to run a signal to 6 phantek halo frames, 6 Airgoo neon LED strips, and 1 Thermaltake RAM cover and all would light. And with so many daisy chained I was only using 6 out of the 12 headers so I could have used even more RGB items if I wanted. When trying to use ICUE off the splitter box however, the only thing that would light was the neon strips which ICUE treated as prime for some reason. Or the fan frames. Or the RAM cover, but not all at once off one channel. It's too smart for its own good if you will since it sets a hard limmit to numbers of LED depending on what mode you have it on. Like LED strip mode is only 60 LED max. And if you pick some of the fan modes that give you more than 60 LED they might light but won't run sequentially down the LEDs properly. Even with that limitation it's still loads better in MO. Just a lot more expensive since I have to run multiple lighting node pros instead of just 1 splitter box. But thanks to ebay and how many lighting nodes are for sale cheap it's not that bad and I'd much rather pay more than not be happy with what I have.
 
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NadeMagnet69 said:
Thanks but I've already moved on to Corsair's ICUE using Asus/Asrock/MSI to Corsair, as well as JST-SM to Corsair cable adapters, to get ICUE to work with non Corsair products. You just have to keep it under 60 LED per channel which is almost my only complaint about ICUE. That and the lighting node pro or the comander pro only has 2 LED channels each. Still, ICUE is faaaaar superior to Polychrome. If Corsair was set on dominating the market with ICUE instead of trying to make people have to buy their over expensive Corsair products to use it, they'd own the rgb market by now and "everyone" would be using it. The ability to set each individual LED as well as having more modes to begin with and multiple modes at once, and the ability to make your own modes to boot. Makes it lightyears ahead of their competition.

What you suggested wouldn't have helped me anyways. I already knew how to do that and had looked up how to do that after my first night with this PC to get it to shut off when the PC is off. That wasn't the problem. The problem is Polychrome can't even sync its RGB headers with its ARGB headers on an Asrock board. That's simply embarrassing. The motherboard LED are synced with the RGB headers, NOT the ARGB headers. Not to mention it's also just another example of how sad Polychrome is when you have to change a setting in BIOS just for RGB anything. Asrock seriously needs to either step up their game or give up entirely and adopt someone else's software when it comes to RGB. How they are now makes them the worse in my opinion in the RGB department. lol FFS this simple 12v controller works as good if not better than Polychrome.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000866279035.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.57c94c4dWEFapU
I could excuse them if Polychrome was new but it's been out for years now. If one judges the entirety of Asrock off their RGB they'd be forced to come to conclusion that one should stay away from their products. And it's not just my opinion, based on my research it's about universally considered to be the worst RGB software.

And BTW that's not true. lol Though I don't know why anyone would want to, Polychrome will work with whatever has its kind of 3 pin plugs like Asus Aura or MSI mystic light products or loads of other third party RGB products that use the same connections. For example it was able to control my Thermaltake Pacific R1 RAM cover using it's supplied ARGB header adapter. If you can call it working anyways with modes the almost most basic of controllers can do.
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Hi, I also have the same problem right now. Currently have an X570 Asrock Steel legend MoBo and the RGB customization is pretty weak. Sure, they are implementing new features, but it’s still heavily lacking in how you can address certain things compared to other softwares. My question is, what exactly did you do to be able to use iCue with non-Corsair products? I have addressable RGB fans and whatnot, just was wondering what exact cables or stuff you had to buy. Thank you
 
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StryderEz said:
Hi, I also have the same problem right now. Currently have an X570 Asrock Steel legend MoBo and the RGB customization is pretty weak. Sure, they are implementing new features, but it’s still heavily lacking in how you can address certain things compared to other softwares. My question is, what exactly did you do to be able to use iCue with non-Corsair products? I have addressable RGB fans and whatnot, just was wondering what exact cables or stuff you had to buy. Thank you
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I made this to try my hand at editing with the GIMP editor. lol I still don't know how to resize pics with it and had to resize them as I dl the pics. Anyways, this is an example of my first setup with ICUE. It was pain in the butt to make so I haven't updated it with my current setup but it'll still show how I did it. Since then I've added another 2 LNP, a commander pro, 6 Phantek neon strips, 2 more fan frames, and 10 LED strips behind my monitor and TV. Click on the pics and then when they load right click on it and click view image to blow them up.
https://imgur.com/QT0NQhs
View: https://i.imgur.com/QT0NQhs.jpg

For the TV and monitor LED I mounted 2 LNP under my desk with a 650W PSU from my old PC. Got this switch and mounted it on my desktop so I don't have to reach under the desk to turn them off at the back of the PSU and then ran their USB data to the back of the MOBO. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MSY4966/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Why didn't I mount them in the case you might be wondering? lol This was the fiasco that is my cable management situation.
https://imgur.com/HNVC9o4
View: https://i.imgur.com/HNVC9o4.jpg

And this is the best I could do. Looks like crap but at least the panel isn't blowing out and can shut easily.
https://imgur.com/6chrP8E
View: https://i.imgur.com/6chrP8E.jpg

https://imgur.com/fl2GDn4
View: https://i.imgur.com/fl2GDn4.jpg

Dealing with cable management was easily the hardest part of building a PC in my opinion. It took like ten zillion times longer than all the rest anyways.
 
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