I ordered directly from Corsair and the box with the K70 RGB PRO just arrived an hour ago. My pre-existing computer has a motherboard using the I7 5820K processor that dates back to 2017 and will not support Windows 11, so it is running Windows 10 Professional version and has done so since it was first built.
Previously, I had an older Corsair keyboard: the Corsair K70 RGB Gaming (RGP0004). I was running the (so-called) latest 3.xxx version of iCue up until today, when the 5.6 installer removed it, automatically. I removed the old keyboard and plugged in the new keyboard and the old iCue software didn't recognize it (said that there were no recognized Corsair keyboards attached to my computer.) This fact is what let me know two things: (1) there were newer major revision numbers available (I hadn't looked before); and, (2) that I should download the newest drivers to replace my old drivers.
So I downloaded the 5.6 version of ICue for Windows and ran it. It correctly noted that I had an older driver and set out uninstalling it, first. That appeared to go fiine (and later checking with Windows 'uninstall' shows no Corsair software available to uninstall now.) Then it gave me a failure message and allowed me to look at the log. That log file was located in the C:\ProgramData\Corsair\iCUE5 Main Installer\logs folder. The first quoted text (#1) below represents this file.
I had luckily kept the above in Notepad because, after some time later, the above was altered to the following (clearly, the process was still running even though I was interacting with the dialog). The second quoted text (#2) below represents this file.
After checking with Windows 10 to verify that there was no longer any Corsair software installed, I tried to perform the install, again. The result log that popped up when pressing that button after the failure notice was a file folder (C:\ProgramData\Corsair\iCUE5 Main Installer\logs) with two files, now. They are quoted below as #3 and #4.
I have also tried the earlier 4.33.138 version. I was finally able to complete the download. It took a while because of a literal showering of 'bad record mac' and http 206 errors, though. The installation was vastly slower than it should be. And I've no idea why a keyboard driver should occupy over 1 Gb of file size unless there is a truck load of spy-on-me software or sell-stuff-to-me, neither of which I want here. The installer succeeded and appears to work okay.
Version 5.6 is a fail, for now.
What I have NOT done, yet:
Tried to perform a third installation. (What's the point?)
I have not rebooted the computer. It's possible that I may need to do that after the uninstall took place. There still may be a system background service process running for all I know. Technically, the installation software should have been able to stop the service. That's standard fare for programmers. But perhaps they didn't do that and the old service is messing up the new one. It's also possible that there are registry issues that may be handled by rebooting. I've no idea. When I get a moment to consider doing it, I'll reboot.
That's it for now.
Any constructive suggestions would be appreciated. Nothing urgent as I have the older driver working, now.
But it would be nice to know what's going on with 5.6.
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