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  1. Hello, First of all let me apologize for my English, as it is not my native language. Today I made a decision that I am already regretting: I tried to switch from LINK 4 to iCue in order to light up my fan set. I have 3 LL120 fans connected to ports 1-3 on a commander pro and on an RGB Hub in turn connected to LED Port 1 in the commander pro. I also have another 3 ML120 fans connected to ports 4-6 on the commander pro and a series of 4 RGB LED strips connected to LED Port 2 in the commander pro. I hope this is all clear. I have once tried to use iCue to light up this setup but failed miserably and so had reverted to LINK 4 which did the job: everything light up as I wanted. Today, unfortunately, I made the decision of giving iCue another try: "What could possibly go wrong? I can maybe get it to work now and if all goes wrong I can revert to LINK". Further on, I'll refer to the RGB hub ports as just ports. Well, sadly the story took a completely different turn. After replacing link with iCue only fan in port 1 lit up (lets call this fan A). At this point fan B is in port 2 and fan C in port 3. I started digging on this forum and saw the suggestion of switching the ports to which the fans were connected. It was said that if one LED in a fan stopped working, all of the following fans would too (let me say that this is by far one of the most egregious flaws, why put them all in series and let 1 fan ruin everything?). I then swapped fan C with fan A. Now, both C and B lit up: C lit up completely, being in port 1, while B seemed to have the same problem that A had before. I tried multiple configurations that resulted in some lighting up and none lighting up and had to give up. I returned to the LINK 4 software (which unfortunately isn't even supplied by Corsair anymore) and to my surprise, now everything is messed up when it clearly worked hours ago. How could this be? Did iCue mess up the LL fans? I probably now need to replace fans A & B since they seem to both have problems, even though they were clearly working well before I gave a chance to iCue. A poor mistake. Let me add that commander pro has the latest firmware, the bios is updated and the iCue version was the most recent. I'm writing this in the hopes that someone can shed some light on possible causes and fixes for the problems that I'm having. I have added an image that hopefully illustrates the situation I've just described. Best regards
  2. I will see if I still get any BSOD from now on. I have downgraded to Corsair Link just to be sure. if it happens again I’ll update you on it.
  3. The G-Sync thing solved the performance hit, so thanks for that. As for the BSOD I have decided to completely re install windows, but before doing so I checked the reliability to see what caused the crashes, and ALL of them, and I really mean ALL of 10 of them, were caused by a corsair service failing. Now I really am afraid to install any iCue/Corsair software.
  4. Ok so now I got another BSOD and I think it might be from another program I have installed. Still iCue was giving a huge performance hit even before having that computer. I am currently reseting windows to a restore point. The hit was the fps going down, high power usage and fans spinning really fast, it was really weird.
  5. Yeah, I have been looking around the internet to see if anyone had the same problem and in not finding anyone I decided to post myself. At this point I would rather not have iCue itself currently installed (at least not until there is an update) since it causes my computer to crash randomly. I do have G-Sync on my monitor, but I really don't see how that could be a problem (?). And by the way, no, the performance hit only happens when iCue is open, once I close the window the computer performance goes back up, really weird. I am really in the dark on this one :/
  6. Hey, so before stating anything I would just like to say that I’m not an expert in any way so please bear with me on this one. So ever since I built my new computer and installed the iCue software to control my 3 LL120 rgb fans and 3 ML120 that I have noticed something weird. Whenever I launched the app the computer started to throttle, the screen would start dimming and returning to normal, and the refresh rate also seemed affected, with the frame rate dropping from 144hz to what seemed like 20. There wasn’t even any other app running, nor game, but the performance hit was very noticeable. But I assumed it wasn’t really a problem and moved on from it since once I closed iCue the computer would return to its normal state. However yesterday I bought and installed 4 RGB strips (all connected together and plugged in to commander) and the performance hit when using iCue increased even more. I then started to get many BSOD with the error message “WATCHDOG VIOLATION”. Removing and unninstaling iCue has seemed to solve the problem has I have not gotten any single BSOD since then. I have tried unninstaling iCue multiple times and nothing seems to be working, I would very much like to have this software since it enables me to control all the RGB functionalities I have paid for aswell as controlling the fan speeds, which are now running almost max speed constantly. Any help is appreciated and I can surely give any information if needed! Thanks and sorry for any case of bad english or bad pronounciation :)
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