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It’s left OR right side buttons… not both.

You need to contact Corsair Support so they can send you the FW file and instructions to side load it. The later is fairly simple and available, but getting the right FW file is critical. Using the wrong one will turn your KB into a paperweight. Get a leg up on Support by doing some things in the original ticket. Include your full name and address, even though it’s obviously in your account data. Provide your purchase invoice for the KB, even though this isn’t a warranty claim. Take a picture of the KB serial number and include it in the ticket. Hopefully that gives the responder no choice but to give you what you need first time and not a week of back and forth emails.

This is a known issue and CUE does not properly hand off to Device Memory Mode before it enters S3 sleep. Enabling Device Memory Mode with the proper black static color prior to entering sleep is the only known workaround, although if you quit CUE prior to entering S3 it should do the same. This is something they will need to correct. DMM is the “new” Hardware Mode in a toggle state. However, it’s not just a UI change and altering the software<->hardware exchange seems to have caused a lot of other issues.

It's in the CPU block area, although the difference in temperature for the liquid between post heat pick up and post radiator heat release is only about 1C difference. That's about as much heat as it can take out of the water in a single pass. This is normal. Your CPU and coolant temp are only the same when your CPU Voltage is zero. No voltage and heat from the underlying pins and the CPU, block, and liquid can all be the same temp. As soon as you start applying voltage to the underside of the CPU it will heat up. The CPU is cooled conductively, not by the liquid. All CPU cooling methods are conductive. It's how they get rid of their waste heat that varies a little. The liquid serves as a transport from the CPU block (heat pick up) to the radiator (heat drop off), where you try to blow it somewhere else. Ideally, your liquid temp never goes up at all and it dumps all added heat in a single pass. That isn't possible on any normal consumer market water cooling system. The liquid temp is the baseline or lowest possible CPU temp, so for each +-1C of coolant temp, you change your CPU temp by the same +-1C. With a AMD 7700x, you may see high CPU temperature (voltage + material limits), but you probably don't make a ton of watts at the CPU and thus the AIO doesn't have that much to get rid of. 10-20 min of CPU-Z might only raise your coolant temp 4C depending on fan speed. Keep that in mind when setting up fan curves. You don't need to be super aggressive. Fans dissipate heat from the water. They won't cool the underside of the CPU.

You need to list your fan type and controller. There were major changes to CUE and particularly the CUE Link system two weeks ago. I also assume you are referring to Murals, which can have it's own configuration issues. Do your fans show in their normal Profile Name -> Lighting Effects page?

The “preview” is not real nor has it ever been. It always was the software version. So if you preview color wave in the Hardware Lighting section, it shows you a color on every fan for all prior generation devices. Then when you actually quit CUE, you get one color wave per channel. CUE Link devices and fans have higher hardware mode capabilities and can do the full version of most effects. QX and RX fans can do more, but it can get complicated with the linked devices and it uses a “lowest capable device” system to set possible effects. Pairing the CUE Link AIO on the same hub as QX fans may lower the number of lighting effects options or change the hardware mode output. With this new DMM toggle state, even linked devices like a CUE Link XD5 and XC7 Elite will use one wave per channel. It’s not clear yet if this is a deliberate necessity or error. CUE Link devices are missing their custom/static color option, so there is at least one thing to correct. I can’t replicate your flashing, but I suspect that’s because I don’t have a CUE Link AIO in the system and that will be the lowest capable lighting device. All of this unrelated to the FW change allowing 24 devices, but is central to the new Device Memory Mode introduced with CUE 5.14 and it's functionality.

No. Even with fans off it would take you 20 min of max load to bring the coolant temp to 60C. That is the upper limit of the device and system and you should never be that close. It means the pump stopped flowing and the water trapped into CPU block cooling fins heated up to 60C. That can happen with a light load and no liquid flow. There seems to be a truckload of wonky issues on the new CUE 5.14. There is no reason the Elite Capellix model pump should ever stop. It's wired for power to the Commander Core and then to the SATA/PSU. In theory, the Commander Core could glitch and stop passing power on to the pump. However, we have seen this reported as a one off event since the beginning so it is more likely this is more of the old, rather than some new bug. Most users previously reported the pump failed to start with Windows at the power on moment. A restart or shutdown and start cures the issue. That is some type of hardware power on error rather than software. I think you simply note whether the pump is working at power on each time right now. It should become apparent within 30 seconds if it's not, both from the rush of fan noise, flashing lights, or in the case of a power delivery failure the LCD will be off too.

This is normal and those are very small differences in score for those two benchmarks. The cpu-z bench is very sensitive to any other processes in action and even with CUE closed you may see day to day variation. Cinebench (any version) usually causes you to hit the power limit and subsequently downclock. This makes your score dependent on your CPU’s ability to run as fast a possible just under the power limit. In both situations you are running a max cpu usage test. Anything else running decreases your score. Open up a browser window and you drop points. Start killing of Windows services and you go up. Neither is important unless you are trying to register a competitive score for posting.

You can’t transfer a profile from software to hardware mode (now DM mode) or vice versa. Each mode has its own specific rules with hardware profile rules being both model and operationally specific. You always will have lower capabilities in hardware mode. Presumably the lighting isn’t that complicated. For hardware assignments, you just have dig in and do them again. There are some restrictions since you need the software to execute some actions. Once you’ve done one HW profile, those assignments can be copied to the Hardware Library and pasted to other HW profiles. If you have complex macros, you might be able to Windows cut and paste them over. KBs always required an active save, but now all devices do as well. The little SD card below the toggle switch is the save button. The new Device Memory Mode has a toggle state switch. Once you put it into DMM mode, you must toggle it back out to return normal functionality unlike the old system where leaving the tab auto-saved and returned you to a normal state. This is going to cause some issues as people learn to adjust to the new system.

A picture might help. Serial number likely will not, although a part number “WW____” is searchable.

So there have been quite a few of these false pump failure issues on the Capellix AIO series since it originally came out. We have theorized the problem is a failure off the internal tach sensor or circuit on that 3 pin connector, which is somewhat unfortunate since it’s not required for the AIO to work at all and that tach wire is there to satisfy the motherboard cpu boot protection feature. However, this is the first time I think any one actually has a concrete moment to link it back. Most users simply power on one day and bam… everything starts flashing red. More unfortunate is there isn’t a user side fix for this. As you’ve seen, nothing works to reset it and you can’t control anything on the Commander Core while it’s in this state. You have to contact Corsair Support for a hardware replacement. You don’t have to explain too much. You turned it on, it was flashing red, the pump clearly works and the CPU does not overheat, but you can’t use the controls. They have seen enough of these now to know there isn’t a solution. If you can, ask for the Advance RMA where they ship you a new AIO first on a credit card hold, then you ship the old back and they cancel it. That will cut the down time. Also, when you submit your ticket, make sure you include the purchase invoice for the AIO, a picture of its serial number, and your full name, address, phone number even though those things are on file. It will save you 2-3 days of back and forth later.

The usual cadence is every 4 weeks, so likely another 3 weeks away.

There appears to be a Lighting Wizard or lighting configuration problem in 5.14 for the Commander Core and XT. Multiple users have reported this and the wizard fails to properly detect and manual setup does not work either. The only workaround we found was to uninstall 5.14, download the old CUE 4.33 from the main website, and run the Wizard while on 4.33. Then install 5.14 back over the top of 4.33 without uninstalling. The lighting config file is preserved and this allowed several users to set up their fans and then continue on normally. This is a known error and there should be a fix in 5.15 if you prefer not to jump through hoops.

This is an XD5 Elite LCD for the CUE Link system? I have no seen anyone else post about a screen failure. Can you add in more detail? Just stays black one day at power on?

Hardware Lighting/Assignments/etc. is now "Device Memory Mode" or DMM. However, you are not the first to report this and it is a confirmed bug in this release. The RAM does not drop out of CUE in DMM/Hardware mode when the PC enters S3 sleep. The only workaround I found was to create your static black layer in DMM mode, then manually toggle the RAM into DMM mode prior to entering sleep. It will stay in DMM mode until you toggle it back off at a later time.