mpogr Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Hi all, I have a bit unusual setup: an EVGA SR-2 Dual 1366 socket Mobo with 2 Xeon X5650 CPUs cooled by two H80is. To make things even more complicated, the system is running VMWare ESXI 5.1 hypervisor with 13 active VMs at the moment (yes, with 48Gb of RAM). Both H80i USB dongles are exposed to a single Windows 7 VM. Prior to version 2.3.4816 of Corsair Link, it was working fine, I could see both dongles and monitor both temps/fan speeds. It was quite buggy, with fans going on to full speed out of sudden once in a while, but it was working. Now, after upgrading to 2.3.4816, I can see only one dongle. I did full uninstall of the previous version of course. I also uninstalled and reinstalled 2.3.4816 just in case (and rebooted in between), but it still sees and monitors/manages only one H80i. Interestingly, in the device summary screen, it does mention the second dongle, but no cooling device attached to it (see the attached screenshot, disregard the system info on the right, as it's spoofed by VMWare). Is there anything I can do with it? I'd really not like to go back to the previous buggy version of CorsairLink, but it's a bit scary to run such an expensive system on blind in terms of one of the CPUs cooling control. I did think about exposing both dongles to two separate systems each, which would probably work, but I don't want to put Corsair Link onto any other VMs, which are highly-purposed and not guaranteed to run at any particular time. Any suggestions are much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m3owie Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 I dont know of any solution for you. My H80i could not even be detected right from the start.What I did was use a mini USB cable and plug the pump directly to a USB port instead of to a USB mobo header. Try this out as a short term solution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpogr Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 I dont know of any solution for you. My H80i could not even be detected right from the start.What I did was use a mini USB cable and plug the pump directly to a USB port instead of to a USB mobo header. Try this out as a short term solution Well, the dongles are still detected by the VMWare host, so this is not the issue. It's only with the new version of Corsair Link it doesn't see the second dongle within the guest OS anymore (it used to with the previous version of the software). I guess Corsair Link developers/designers didn't quite account for the possibility of multiple dongles in the same system. The clue could be in the fact when the new version of Corsair Link is installed, it asks for permission to install a device driver, but it does it only once. I browsed the guest OS (Win 7) device manager back and forth trying to find the corresponding device there, but to no avail. I guess the key is to get the driver installed for both dongles, I just don't know how to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpogr Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 OK, managed to solve it. I played with USB Input and HID drivers (disabled the ones used by the H80i that *WAS* recognised), so only the unrecognised one was used. Then, from within Corsair Link software, I ran the firmware upgrade (1.05) process, which, out of sudden, made the H80i visible, and not just the dongle. Then restarted Corsair Link and - voila! - both H80is became visible. Looks like the new software is much more stable than the previous one, the dials are all in the right places and showing the right info, and the fan control seems to be working much better. No sudden unexplained fan speed-ups so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpogr Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 Just the final followup. This is the customised picture of my case with both H80i-s up and running and fans/pumps/temps reported by Corsair Link. I removed the CPU temps as the guest OS can't pick them up, unfortunately. So far the new version has been rock solid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrickf Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 I too am running esxi with a h80i. It seems that the fans are really loud. How were you able to get the guest vm to reconize the pump via corsair link software? All mine seems to show is the temps. I am not able to control the fan or pump speed. Im running the software on Windows Server 2008. Any help would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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