Question My addressable rgb led strip wont light up?

[ArviVi]

I bought an addressable rgb led strip couple of years ago. Today I plugged it in my pc (with asus B450-e which has addressable rgb header), but it wont light up? I opened aura sync and it detects the led strip, but there is no light at all.

 

[AllanGH]

There are 24VDC addressable LED strips, 12VDC addressable LED strips, and 5VDC addressable LED strips.
Which of those do you have?

 

[ArviVi]

There are 24VDC addressable LED strips, 12VDC addressable LED strips, and 5VDC addressable LED strips.
Which of those do you have?

I am pretty sure it is 5v, I forgot to add that earlier that day I tested the led strip with my arduino and it worked flawlessly.

 

[g-unit1111]

You need a controller to plug into your motherboard's USB port. Just plugging the light strip in may not do anything. You need to have a light strip hub that's PCI or USB based and then plug your strip into that and then into the header on the motherboard and your strip should work then.

 

[AllanGH]

With Arduino, it's almost certainly 5VDC, then.

The Aura headers are 12V RGB. The "ADD_HEADER" supports 5VDC SW2812B addressables, but the MB manual leads me to believe that you have to enable LED effects in BIOS; so, it may just be a matter of getting into your BIOS menu, looking for "ROG Effects" and diddling with the settings under that menu heading.

That header is likely disabled.

Check pages 1-18 and 3-15 in your MB manual.