Hi guys,

at this point I am not going to tell you about all my struggles with Aura components, you can read about them later in my book "RGB agony: the story of a fool who thought ROG got state-of-the-art tech" which I'm yet to write.

So here's the latest story I'm asking for help with: after yet another Aura caprice (all effects reset to defaults after unplugging some Aura-compatible USB hardware) I restored my setting as I did before countless times, using a batch script (yeah, this is how you manage "profiles" in Aura) and noticed that my Back I/O and PCH lighting was turning off completely shortly after Aura service started with Windows (those components were lit during boot). I realized the fix was to open Aura, turn everything off and back on, this would also turn on the Back I/O + PCH lighting in my selected colors. At some points I grew tired of repeating this process every time after booting into Windows, so I decided to re-install Aura. I did it several times, trying to get rid of its config files.

Now both components in question seem to be RGB-dead - there is no "Motherboard" in Aura, Armoury Crate or Corsair iCUE anymore. I went through several YouTube videos, updated the BIOS to the latest version and did another clean Aura install, all to no avail. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks a lot.

P.S. if anyone from ASUS reads that post, please tell it to your manager: the Aura software is one of the worst things I've ever seen in terms of UX and makes me want to make sure to not buy ROG ever again. Please raise your eyes to the likes of Roccat and Logitech to see what proper software looks like.