ARGB broke. ASRock Dynamic Lighting

m00zis wrote: Unfortunately nothing of all of the above steps worked for me. I installed my new b650 Steel Legend yesterday and everything worked fine. Just after installing Polychrome (I had SignalRGB running in the Background) my PCH RGBs stopped working. I tried everything from flashing the RGB firmware, BIOS update, uninstalling SignalRGB, reinstalling Polychrome, unplugging pc for 10 minutes and run UpdateFW.cmd and whatsoever. Nothing seems to work for me. Has anyone anymore tips for me? Thank you

If you haven't fixed this yet, here's what I had to do quite a while ago (07/2023). ALL OF THIS COULD BE DANGEROUS, SO DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

I tried everything everyone else mentioned and then started digging into the actual WriteFW.BAT file that does the flashing. I realized that the WriteFW.BAT file was skipping doing anything in my case, so what I did was copy the actual flashing command out of the section of the .BAT file that it was skipping, and I ran it manually at the command prompt.

The command is:

AsrISP.exe /I 0 /AUTO /FORCE

BUT!!!! This didn't work for me at all. It did for other people, but not me. I had to go further and start guessing at the other options for the AsrISP.exe command.

Here is what the current version of AsrISP.exe has:

Usage: AsrISP.exe <command> [options] Commands ------------------    /UA <file>               Update APROM with specific file (.bin)    /UL <file>               Update LDROM with specific file (.bin)    /UD <file>               Update data flash with specific file (.bin)    /UC <cfg0> <cfg1>        Update Config    /BS <opt>                 Reboot                              (Default 0 - Reset, 1 - LDROM, 2 - APROM)    /E <all | aprom | data> Erase APROM and data flash    /I <interface>           Interface                              (Default 0 - USB, 1 - I2C, 2 - ADL_I2C_OEM, 3 - ADL_I2C_OEM3)    /ID                      Specify an USB Device ID    /INFO                     Display information    /?                        Usage help Example ------------------ Update APROM through USB AsrISP.exe /UA APROM.bin Update APROM through ADL_I2C AsrISP.exe /UA APROM.bin /I 2 Update APROM and data flash AsrISP.exe /UA APROM.bin /UD DATA.bin Update config AsrISP.exe /UC FFFFFF7F 000FFFFF Erase all AsrISP.exe /E

What I ended up doing was:

1) reboot the controller using the /BS 0 flag
If the reboot with reset works to fix your ARGB LED controller, STOP HERE!!!
2) THIS IS DANGEROUS: erase all with the /E all flag
3) manually overwrite the LDROM with /UL flag, then
4) manually overwrite the APROM with /UA flag, then
5) manually overwrite the data file with /UD flag

It's been so long ago I don't remember the exact flags/options I used, but it was probably exactly as shown in the AsrISP.exe /? above.

Now, the hard part for me was figuring out which LDROM .bin file to use and which APROM .bin file to use after that and then which data file to use. (All these files are in the same directory as the AsrISP.exe file.) I didn't have a config file and was terrified about having screwed up by erasing it before finding out I didn't have one.

I ended up using trial and error (there were only four or so LDROM and four or so APROM .bin files to try). I DO NOT RECOMMEND TRIAL AND ERROR FOR YOU. In my case, I had nothing else to lose, so I went ahead and did it.

After I re-flashed the LDROM and APROM, I then deduced which .dat file to use for my motherboard model (there was some trial and error, but I was able to rule out most of the .dat files based on what appear to be dates and parts of model names).

Finally, I was able to run the firmware update with the /AUTO /FORCE flags, and it worked. I now had the latest firmware, and the ARGB LED controller was working properly again. It was visible in both BIOS and PolyChrome app. I have not had any trouble since then.

How did I know to do the above? I have some experience working on microcontrollers like Arduino and also flashing ROMs on Android phones, so I knew something about flashing bootloaders and OS images and digging out of a bricked situation. The big question that makes the above dangerous is what to do if you need to do a hardware reset and hardware flash of the ARGB LED controller chip on the motherboard. On an Arduino, it's possible to get at the hardware pins, so there's a kind of fearlessness. If you mess up you can always recover.

Anyway, I don't remember much more about what I did, and I probably won't be back on this forum. Just posting it in case someone got stuck like I did.

i have a problem where when ever i launch ASRRGBLED it says device not detected can anyone help me

thank you, kind man, because I thought that everything was broken, but it was your way that helped me)

oh well, i guessed it was worth a shot, pitty it didn't work.

? Did you also try:
wICPFLASHADSBv2.exe /file=nu51_3.04
(it comes with Polychrome RGB ver:2.0.170)