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antonpup / Aurora

Unified lighting effects across multiple brands and various games.
http://www.project-aurora.com/
MIT License
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Is it possible for the software to kill my keyboard? #1807

Open ugzzugzz opened 4 years ago

ugzzugzz commented 4 years ago

I have the Sound BlasterX Vanguard K08, and after updating to the latest version i was crashing on load after getting a preference loading error. So i re-installed and got it up and running, i went into settings and chose the K08 from the list, then i just wanted to see if the Turn off all lighting button worked, so i clicked it, and the lights went off on the keyboard, and the program instantly froze. After about 3-4 minutes i had to close it from the task manager. From that point forward, none of the keys work, and the lights don't come on. I even tried it on another computer and it's the same, the lights all stay off and it doesn't respond. However the computer/s do see it, they beep when plugged in, get the keyboard in the hardware tab, and definitely detect it. The hub works also. The numlock light comes also, so i know it's getting power. So it's like there, and the system/s detect it, but none of the keys or lights respond. I tried uninstalling and then installing the sound blaster keyboard software, it shows the keyboard with all lights off but when i try and modify the lighting it crashes. I'm going to uninstall it and put Aurora back on and i guess keep messing with it, but since it's not even working on another system, i'm not super hopeful.

ugzzugzz commented 4 years ago

Ok, so some digging online led me to how to hardware reset if it ever gets a bad profile. You have to unplug the USB, hold down CTR + ALT + F2 and plug back in. That did the trick and got me back to typing!