[DRIVERS] Intel Chipset/MEI/SATA (1xx/2xx/3xx/4xx/5xx)

[Tekamine]

Hello MoKiChU!
I have a question regarding your drivers packages that it is important for my situation. It is a bit OT, but still related to your work.

Does any of your packages copy/install anything in these folders down here??

C:\ProgramData\ASUS
C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS
C:\Program Files\ASUS
C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Local\ASUS
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\asu ssci2.inf_amd64_0bc4d1cbbe22f0db

I am in the need to completely delete anything related to ASUS from my system as I would like to clean it from any leftovers or unused files from uninstalled ASUS software I have removed.
The story is that I messed up with the ASUS Armoury Crate & AURA Creator app, the ASUS AI Suite III app and the My ASUS app, and as I was not able to control my fans anymore with any third party software, I decided to remove everything and just keep only drivers/files/folders/apps ONLY related to your packages, as I was really not using those apps so to justify their presence in my system.


As mentioned, I have uninstalled all of those apps with their official ASUS uninstallers, and as I still see a lot of ASUS related subfolders in some of those destinations I mentioned and a lot of ASUS services running at system startup, I would like to know if you can tell me with what you have those folders populated, and in case if you can show what to keep and delete, as I would like to wipe out everything else.

I think I might need to delete some entries at startup with the Autoruns64 app as some services are still running, before deleting some folders.
Consider that I don't have any ASUS entry in my installed apps in Windows, and I have checked that also using Ashampoo Uninstaller and Your Uninstaller apps, so I guess that Windows thinks that everything related to ASUS is uninstalled.

Thank you in advance, and as always, thanks for your great work!!

This is the whole "sh..ty" environment coming with Armoury crate and so on, hundreds of useless rgb/led DLLs etc ... I have the same folders full of unknown .exe and dlls, scanned and having reputation with Kaspersky (kinda relieved a bit) even thouh I d love to get rid of them as well.
However, some are important for Armoury crate to work properly, others are just optionnal programs for AI suite, Ai blabla etc ... And the rest, just in case you buy a "patriot" or whatever the brand that have leds/rgbs to be compatitible with an Asus mobo i "guess" ?
You can see some of them running in task manager (often named by "HAL"xxxx). They arnt using that much ressources, but def flooding your PC.

You can review them one by one on Kaspersky for instance, everytime i open a folder of an uknown editor like "ENE" or "PHISON" with .exe and dlls inside, I delete them automatically and they often come back with ArmCrate updates ...
So, the least I can do, is to block their access to the network at least ... To get rid of them, well, get rid of armoury crate (if you use rgb Aura you won't be able to keep the leds, except if you keep the "lightning.exe" using quite some CPU...) and then, you ll be able to clean everything.
Just stick to the raw drivers here, avoid armoury crate, and you wont be spammed by those dozen folders.
That's just my suggestion.

[piratino]

This is the whole "sh..ty" environment coming with Armoury crate and so on, hundreds of useless rgb/led DLLs etc ... I have the same folders full of unknown .exe and dlls, scanned and having reputation with Kaspersky (kinda relieved a bit) even thouh I d love to get rid of them as well.
However, some are important for Armoury crate to work properly, others are just optionnal programs for AI suite, Ai blabla etc ... And the rest, just in case you buy a "patriot" or whatever the brand that have leds/rgbs to be compatitible with an Asus mobo i "guess" ?
You can see some of them running in task manager (often named by "HAL"xxxx). They arnt using that much ressources, but def flooding your PC.

You can review them one by one on Kaspersky for instance, everytime i open a folder of an uknown editor like "ENE" or "PHISON" with .exe and dlls inside, I delete them automatically and they often come back with ArmCrate updates ...
So, the least I can do, is to block their access to the network at least ... To get rid of them, well, get rid of armoury crate (if you use rgb Aura you won't be able to keep the leds, except if you keep the "lightning.exe" using quite some CPU...) and then, you ll be able to clean everything.
Just stick to the raw drivers here, avoid armoury crate, and you wont be spammed by those dozen folders.
That's just my suggestion.

Hey thanks for the advice!
I have uninstalled/removed/deleted everything that is not related to MoKiChU driver's packages, and everything is working even smoother, with the ability to use my third party fan monitoring app with no strange messages telling me that some fans are controlled priorly by ASUS, messing with the all fan control situation.
The only down side fact is that now my RGB fans are all stuck with red led lights. Don't know if is possible to turn RGB lighting back on somehow without installing any ASUS system resources hungry app.
Maybe any other third party apps of which I haven't known the existence for now..

But we are OT here!! Let's remain to the thread topic.
If you would like to keep this conversation, just PM me or write a reply here, as it is the thread I've opened asking for help regarding these ASUS apps stuff.

[Ataemonus]

Thank you, super Mokichu.

[Tekamine]

Hey thanks for the advice!
I have uninstalled/removed/deleted everything that is not related to MoKiChU driver's packages, and everything is working even smoother, with the ability to use my third party fan monitoring app with no strange messages telling me that some fans are controlled priorly by ASUS, messing with the all fan control situation.
The only down side fact is that now my RGB fans are all stuck with red led lights. Don't know if is possible to turn RGB lighting back on somehow without installing any ASUS system resources hungry app.
Maybe any other third party apps of which I haven't known the existence for now..

But we are OT here!! Let's remain to the thread topic.
If you would like to keep this conversation, just PM me or write a reply here, as it is the thread I've opened asking for help regarding these ASUS apps stuff.

I'm afraid you can not play with RGB without armoury crate :/

[Cliff S]

Thank you for the update MoKiChU

[rgen44]

Hi everyone,

- Intel Chipset Drivers :

Package : 10.1.19074.8314 WHQL [23/03/2022]
Download : Link

Thread updated.

As always Thank you @MoKiChU. You are appreciated. STAY WELL!

[ahfoo]

Hi everyone,

- Intel Chipset Drivers :

Package : 10.1.19074.8314 WHQL [23/03/2022]
Download : Link

Thread updated.

What can I say again. Thank you MoKiChU for the contribution.

[Anubis_jero]

Hi everyone,

- Intel Chipset Drivers :

Package : 10.1.19074.8314 WHQL [23/03/2022]
Download : Link

Thread updated.

Thanks, great MoKiChU

[pinkfloyd1173]

Thank you good sir.

[agooh777]

Hello Mr.
I had little problem. when I installed drivers from links you provide.
windows 10 installs what's already there.
will this cause conflict?
what's best way to install driver? let windows 10 do it after I install chipset or do it manually?