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And I just noticed G6 doesn't light up in hardware mode either. As soon as I start iCue, it works fine. Shut down iCue and G6 is dark again.

Because of the performance impact, I've started using my K95P without iCue running, and for the most part it's working fine. The G keys work as they should, except for one. I've mapped G5 to be shrug kaomoji: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But when iCue isn't running, the key spits out a simplified version: \_(?)_/ It works fine when iCue is running. iCue shows the correct text, but the keyboard just doesn't store all the information without iCue. Any ideas or suggestions are welcomed. I use this key a lot. =)

Can confirm that my K95P doesn't do this. The spacebar has zero tilt no matter where I press it. I had my first one for 18 months before a warranty replacement, and this one's six months old, also with no spacebar problems.

Oops! Thanks for clarifying. =)

Thanks for clarifying the power issue, Zotty. I am a bit confused by this bit: iCue only shows 10 LEDs per strip, but the LS100 has 15. By telling iCue I have 3 strips, I get all 30 lights on the LS100. If I 'stay within the rules' I'd only get 2/3 of the available lights, the last half of the second strip would be blank. Or am I mis-reading what you're saying?

I recently found a thread that suggested there might be a power problem running my LS100 lights on a Node Pro. Can anyone confirm this might be the case? Since the power's coming from the SATA power, I was surprised to find that power might be an issue. There's more LEDs in the LS100, but I was able to make them work by telling ICue that I had two light strips, and one strip plus five lights of the next works fine to light up one LS100 strip. And I tell you, this case has never looked better. =D My point, I guess, is - at what point do I need to worry about power draw?

OH FFS. There's a whole dropdown I didn't even see, I totally thought I was limited to keystrokes. Thank you, you've opened up a whole new world for me. ^__^

I've been bashing my head against this for about an hour and I'm starting to think it can't be done. I want to past the shruggy guy kaomoji ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ with a G-key on my K95. iCUE doesn't let me paste an arbitrary chunk of text, so I've been painstakingly entering the character sequence, but I've hit a wall with the central ツ character. I can't find any way to enter this as an alt-code in Windows 7. Can anyone suggest a way to get the whole text to appear? UPDATE: See post #3 for the solution

Thank you for your reply. The keycaps were fine after I pushed them into place. As shipped, however, they were only loosely placed onto the switches, and if you turn the keyboard upside down and smack the back of it, most of them will fall off. They simply weren't pressed on firmly enough during assembly. Easy fix, I'm not unhappy about it. As for the switches, I understand. Weird though that a dozen or more of mine started going bad around the same time. Design flaw, or something else, I don't know. I appreciate the 2 year warranty, and the quick turnaround. Thank you for that. The BIOS mode simply didn't work on the old keyboard. I've read a LOT of complaints about this being a firmware glitch, so I'm just not going to update this keyboard, and hope it works when I need it.

I've been involved in a few threads regarding the repeating keys issue on my K95 Platinum. There was no pattern to it, just double keypresses, mostly on E and R but regularly enough on a dozen other keys too so maybe those two because they're the most used, IDK. It started happening more or less out of the blue, but seemed to slowly be getting worse. I eventually sent the keyboard back to Corsair, under warranty. It added significantly (nearly 50%) to the cost of the keyboard - it is not cheap sending 2kg to Taiwan! - but the turnaround was quick and I have a new keyboard under my fingers right now. Which immediately started dropping keys, they just fell off when the keyboard slipped getting it out of the box and fell 10 centimetres. Almost none of the keys were properly attached, I had to push and click them all into place. Whatever robot is attaching them needs a bit of calibration. So the problem was apparently not fixable, but I still have no idea what it actually was. What causes all your keys to start skipping? I don't know if I'll ever know. And in case Corsair is reading this, while I'm happy with the warranty process (but not the price, maybe get a guy in Australia?) I just wanted to post about my experience with the K95 Platinum overall. Quite honestly this is a great keyboard when it works, which is not during POST because it will not switch to regular keyboard mode except when Windows has already booted, and if I could boot to Windows I wouldn't be screaming and trying to get it into BIOS mode. So if Windows crashes, I can't skip the error screen, and if I have a problem booting, I need another keyboard to tinker with the BIOS. That is, frankly, bull****. If anyone can tell me how to switch modes outside of Windows I'd be grateful. I just don't understand why this isn't a regular HID keyboard with a lighting overlay, but I suppose there are reasons... That issue is sort of forgivable, the repeating keys after a 15 months not so much. I certainly appreciate the two year warranty but I really didn't expect to need it. We'll see how this one goes. If it experiences a similar failure, I probably won't be replacing it with another Corsair product. And if anyone's taking suggestions, add another USB port. =)

Replying to my own thread with an irrelevant topic. My apologies.

I'd love to know the fix for this, because I have the same problem.

Still no problems since I changed a thing and made the problem stop. Total coincidence, maybe I also stopped the magic vapours too. I'm very glad my problem appears to be solved - whether by luck or action I do not yet know. Time will tell. If it happens again though I won't be blaming my wife's feet. EDIT: They're not PHYSICALLY STICKING. I see how you might have misread what I wrote, but geez. =/

Yesterday I tried two things: updated the CUE software to 3.6.109, and dropped the polling rate to 500ms. So far so good, but it's way too early to tell. Thing is, the CUE software shouldn't be in the way of any reasonably designed keyboard, so if it's at fault I'll be very disappointed. ...In the same way that I'm disappointed I can't switch to normal mode when it's not running, actually. Every time my computer crashes (which ain't often) I can't boot to Windows without waiting for the 30 second timeout because the keyboard is, for all intents and purposes, dead to the world. Ahem. That aside... It's not a cleaning issue. It's never the same key twice, it's randomly occurring all over the keyboard, and it cancels itself when another key is pressed. All clues that lead away from a mechanical issue, I think.

I love my K95 Platinum but lately the keys are repeating. Random keys, from all over the keyboard, and they'll repeat until I tap them or any other key. It has never done this before, now it's happening a few times an hour. Has anyone else seen this? Is there a fix, something I can check? Thanks for any advice.