R3bornD4rth

I LITERALLY JUST CREATED MY ACCOUNT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THIS!! Yesterday my noon was killed by iCUE deciding to install new firmware for my H100i SE and freezing during the process. No avail, I force-closed it. Up till now it was fine. It recovered. But then it tried the update againg - same issue. This time, after restarting Windows, lights went out, and the pump and fans defaulted to 100%. ANNOYING I TELL YOU!. Anyways. several restarts, reinstalls and different iCUE versions later, iCUE still didn't pick up the device. No even worse, my Commander Pro and Lightning Node Core started to disappear as well... And since nothing was really hepling, I resorted to find a way to forcefully push the firmware image back on the device. I knew it wasn't bircked - just softlocked. Fancy that first of all Corsair has a tool for this in the install folder for iCUE, and secondly very convenient that you can find a firmware image in the appdata/temp-folder! After failing to flash it, since the bootloader tool couldn't connect, I used all my PC wits and figured, that during bootloader state, any device will enter "boot phase" of the firmware or go into a soft-locked state, if that fails. Since we have no way to read out this happenings, I just figured to kill power to the H100i, and instantly force the firmware-push after giving it back the power. And EUREKA IT WORKED! So my additional tipp here would be: 1. Use safe-mode and strat the program via powershell or cmd - gives more feedback, then the flashing terminal window... 2. Reset the power cycle, if the device is found by xmcbootloader but it cannot connect to it's bootloader. IF the device isn't even found, well, then I would be out of options at that point as well. So lucky me, hope no one will have such a experience! Also Thanks Corsair, that was my first time, that you evidently either released a iCUE version where firmware updates are scuffed, or you pushed a faulty firmware. Either way. Now is all fine. No RMA needed, and I am a happy customer again. But this kind of stuff is for "prosumer" for the witty interested geeks. A normal customer would be so frustrated! Again many thanks!!!!!