How to control RAM lights Dominator Platinum RGB

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   Following components in system:

4. Motherboard: ASRock B650E Steel Legend WiFi

8. Memory Module 1: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB CMT64GX5M2B6000Z40      
9. Memory Module 2: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB CMT64GX5M2B6000Z40      
10. Memory Module 3: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB CMT64GX5M2B6000Z40
11. Memory Module 4: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB CMT64GX5M2B6000Z40

How to control RGB leds of RAM/memory sticks ?

So far I tried:
1. iCue, doesn't seem to work.
2. Asus Armory Crate + RGB Memory Plugin for ASUS AURA SYNC, doesn't seem to work.
3. ASRock Motherboard Utility doesn't have RGB options.
4. ASRock Polychrome RGB (seems to do something, but mostly turns the RAM modules into one color... ?!?)

Are there any other options ?

Also is there a way to get the original rainbow effect without restarting the system or removing the ASRock software ?

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Skybuck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18 Apr 2023 Status: Offline Points: 1290	Post Options Post Reply Quote Skybuck Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: How to control RAM lights Dominator Platinum RGB Posted: 18 Nov 2023 at 7:21am
	Following components in system: 4. Motherboard: ASRock B650E Steel Legend WiFi 8. Memory Module 1: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB CMT64GX5M2B6000Z40 9. Memory Module 2: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB CMT64GX5M2B6000Z40 10. Memory Module 3: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB CMT64GX5M2B6000Z40 11. Memory Module 4: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB CMT64GX5M2B6000Z40 How to control RGB leds of RAM/memory sticks ? So far I tried: 1. iCue, doesn't seem to work. 2. Asus Armory Crate + RGB Memory Plugin for ASUS AURA SYNC, doesn't seem to work. 3. ASRock Motherboard Utility doesn't have RGB options. 4. ASRock Polychrome RGB (seems to do something, but mostly turns the RAM modules into one color... ?!?) Are there any other options ? Also is there a way to get the original rainbow effect without restarting the system or removing the ASRock software ?

Skybuck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18 Apr 2023 Status: Offline Points: 1290	Post Options Post Reply Quote Skybuck Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 2023 at 7:28am
	The following happened: I installed iCue yesterday but did not reboot the system, rebooted it today. iCue did not seem to detect the RAM lights. Installed all the software above. Went into bios changed nothing. Went into polychrome RGB, tweaked some settings. Did two reboots. iCue seems to detect the RAM lights now... Started polychrome rgb, a red arrow appeared in iCue after starting it again. After a while a hint message shows up. iCue stopped receiving data from memory ram etc. Rebooted it again. This time I did not start polychrome rgb, auto start is on off. Now iCue is properly detecting the ram and I can play with the lights ! Pretty cool ! Problem seems solved, but too early to tell, I will experiment some more with these fun lights ! ;)

Skybuck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18 Apr 2023 Status: Offline Points: 1290	Post Options Post Reply Quote Skybuck Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 2023 at 7:55am
	Hmmm the irony is the lights looked best without all this software haha ! I think without the software it does something special ! The effects rainbow and such get close, but it's not quite the same hmmm... Kinda sucks a bit, I want the original ! ;) I guess disabling iCue from starting up might fix it and give original lightning. Though I do see how some more "advanced" lighting could be created by "stacking layers"... with each layer a dimm could be selected... I play with that first, after that I want the original lighting back ! ;)

Skybuck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18 Apr 2023 Status: Offline Points: 1290	Post Options Post Reply Quote Skybuck Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 2023 at 8:06am
	OK, the non-software lighting is definetly different and much better/more interesting to look it, glad it's back ! ;) =D

Skybuck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18 Apr 2023 Status: Offline Points: 1290	Post Options Post Reply Quote Skybuck Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 Nov 2024 at 7:59am
	Just to document this properly, is kinda hard, because there are many options. The best way to get the most spectacular effect is to disable all iCue corsair services in Windows. This will allow the motherboard/bios/prospect 700r/some kind of hardware to take over the DRAM settings, without these services running the RGB can no longer be controled by corsair software or any other software, this gives the most spectacular rainbow running downwards, all kinds of colors and must interesting to look at because it's very diverse yet smooth and shading. Other things tried: polychrome... it can control the ram leds it has some functionality. Other thing tried: armory crate from asus, cannot control the lights. The DRAM also has something special "device memory mode" on or something then it will remember it's setting and run that without services running, or some of them, but when all are stopped, the hardware seems to take over. In case you can't get it working and the lights stay off, make sure in bios of motherboard it says to have leds/rgb on etc. Currently the dram lights seem somewhat out of phase, a restart/reboot might help to get them back in line or just leave as be... but it seems a bit off right now.. Dim 3 seems to be out of phase with rest... a bit strange... I will try one restart and see what happens :) This was kinda hard to figure out, took me two days sort of... gave up on first day, but I can remember disabling iCue service in the past and the effect came back. Kinda weird that one has to do that. I also did some polychrome rgb update because it's driver was vunerable and had to be updated, not sure if this had any effect, probably not, but not sure.

Skybuck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18 Apr 2023 Status: Offline Points: 1290	Post Options Post Reply Quote Skybuck Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 Nov 2024 at 8:06am
	I did on last test: Restarting windows did not have any effect on the RGB lights and then just stayed on and continue the cycle. Shutting down power and restarting computer from cold boot, did have an effect and the rainbow was immediately apperently, but then the colors start cycling again... so seems normal, but maybe a shutdown and restart after playing with all these software effects might help/affect it to keep it in a certain way but probably not, this is probably normal that it starts cycling in a certain way. I wonder what is the source of the effect, motherboard/bios ? or build in lighting per dram stick ? probably bios/hardware I think cause others should they not stay in sync, unless there is a slight timing difference per stick, maybe on purpose, but it does it in a certain way, dim1,dim2,dim3,dim4 could also be an electrical delay, not sure but for now I think it's "master" controlled by bios/mb, but electrical time difference might be true too hehe, the mystery remains ! ;) :)

Skybuck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18 Apr 2023 Status: Offline Points: 1290	Post Options Post Reply Quote Skybuck Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 Nov 2024 at 8:12am
	One last note: Everything at medium/middle speed looks best.

Skybuck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18 Apr 2023 Status: Offline Points: 1290	Post Options Post Reply Quote Skybuck Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 Nov 2024 at 6:51pm
	Hmmm... today I decided to play around with temperature based led effects... and just discovered something interesting: iCUE software also has "plugins", by installing these plugins it gives access to other control software like asus armoury crate. This allow asus armoury crate to control the DRAM leds as well for increased lighting options, control and synchronizations... very interesting. (I also discovered asrock has some new drivers for asrock steel legend b650e motherboard... for example new amd chipset drivers, have not tried them yet, but might try them later on today, there is also something new: AI NPU driver but this is for much newer processors with build in AI stuff, granted ryzen 7950x also has some ai capabilities but it's different I think, so this driver probably not for this cpu ! ;) :) I checked the website for this driver and it does not list this processor as supported.) So far the armoury crate from asus has an interesting "rainbow effect" that makes the DRAM look different than anything I have seen before I think... :)

Skybuck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18 Apr 2023 Status: Offline Points: 1290	Post Options Post Reply Quote Skybuck Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 Nov 2024 at 6:52pm
	WOW, "Stary night: lighting mode is also very impressive, it's red lights, sparkling, like a christmas tree, getting massive christmas vibes ! Very good mode for christmas ! ;) =D

Skybuck Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18 Apr 2023 Status: Offline Points: 1290	Post Options Post Reply Quote Skybuck Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 Nov 2024 at 6:57pm
	"Silent night" music comes to mind. The music lighting effect is not working yet, not sure how to get it working with HDMI, AI says to set output device to HDMI, I am supposed to go to device, which allows me to select the gpu only, but then nothing shows up... hmmm...