Armoury Crate installation tips

[Nate152]

Hey Bushmaster78F5,

Is everything back to normal and working ok?

I got the 1003 error one time with the ROG Falchion NX, the only thing that fixed this particular error was a fresh windows reinstall.

[Bushmaster78FS]

Is everything back to normal and working ok?

No unfortunately, this method didn't fix the Device Page error 2005/2006 and that is the only problem I am having with AC. The amount of device page errors I am seeing from people makes me think that a fresh Windows install may also get the same problem with the current iteration of Armoury Crate, so I don't think I want to reinstall Windows 11. My OS works flawless at the moment, I just reinstalled it like 10 days ago, I am kind of tired of reinstalling Windows at this point.

[Nate152]

I will suggest to do a fresh reinstall of windows, this usually fixes any problem with Armoury Crate and I'm confident it will fix the Device page error.

[Jimbo93]

Thanks. The error I had with the keyboard that was fixed by a very recent update was a 2006 device page error.

About those drivers, I had two that I removed, they would both get reinstalled for me just by checking for windows updates. hmmm, Im not familiar with ROG Armoury II software or Driver booster.

Very nicely done mate, good instructions. I suffer from device page error 2005/2006 in AC so I used this method, at the very least it fixed an issue I was having with AISuite3, (GPU wasn't showing) and AC uninstalls and reinstalls fine (reinstall only in the second attempt, first attempts are always ending up with internet 101 error) AC is fully functional with the exception of getting into the device pages.

One caveat though, deleting the .inf files of input devices from DriverStoreExplorer had some unexpected side effects. Reinstalling the Armoury Crate didn't reinstall these drivers back. So when all said and done with the Armoury Crate installation, I went and did a driver scan with both Windows Update and Driver Booster. The latter installed the drivers back on along with ROG Armoury II software.

[Bushmaster78FS]

I will suggest to do a fresh reinstall of windows, this usually fixes any problem with Armoury Crate and I'm confident it will fix the Device page error.

I am absolutely confident that it would fix the error but it is also likely Armoury Crate may get broken again. So I just read someone who just reinstalled their Windows had their Armoury Crate start giving the device page error. That is a huge hassle to go all through and fall back to square one. Likely I will wait until next AC update and see if they fix it that time.

[Bushmaster78FS]

Thanks. The error I had with the keyboard that was fixed by a very recent update was a 2006 device page error.

So hopefully an update will come around and fix the device page errors I am having.

About those drivers, I had two that I removed, they would both get reinstalled for me just by checking for windows updates. hmmm, Im not familiar with ROG Armoury II software or Driver booster.

ROG Armoury II is their older device profile software prior to Crate. Back then they had a different software for everything. IObit Driver Booster is just a huge driver repository software, a bit more in depth than Windows Update, you can check out the interface using a virtual machine like the Sandbox. I am assuming they paired the drivers with their software. Not a big deal as ROG Armoury allows access into the mouse and keyboard profiles once they are unsynced from Aura lighting in Crate.

[Jimbo93]

Adding some additional information about AI Suite 3 configuration for anyone that may use it with Armoury Crate. You may or may not know that some AI Suite 3 functions are not compatible with windows/system virtualization turned on. But there is a workaround that I am using.

Why use virtualization? Well, it is supposed to improve protection against malware for one reason, and a second reason is that it is required to use WSL2 (windows subsystem for linux).


So the workaround is: you need to disable the away mode settings in AI Suite 3, and disable the task for Asus DIPAwayMode. This task can easily be disabled with windows task scheduler. The task to disable can be found in the Asus folder. I will attach a screenshot.
You may need to turn off virtualization in the bios and uninstall the feature from windows features to get AI Suite installed and configured as described. Once that is done you can turn on virtualization in the bios and add the feature "Virtual Machine Platform".

[Bushmaster78FS]

I ended up not installing AISuite3 after my Windows reinstallation. My mobo is stuck with 3.00.51 or something version anyway and ASUS never released anything after that. Set my fans and OC with the BIOS, happy camper

[Jimbo93]

I ended up not installing AISuite3 after my Windows reinstallation. My mobo is stuck with 3.00.51 or something version anyway and ASUS never released anything after that. Set my fans and OC with the BIOS, happy camper

Cool man. I am experimenting myself with and without. Once I figured out how to get the Cleaner to clean it completely, I thought there was a good chance I could get better performance out of AC if I worked on it. Turned out true, eventually. And to describe the performance issue I have to deal with, its a higher than normal cpu activity with the motherboard hal process. Reinstalled AC without AI Suite and that same problem was there. It eventually calmed down hours later and after some fiddling. I can only hazard a guess that it kind of cured itself. I am also using your method for fan control to see how I like it.

[Bushmaster78FS]

I am also using your method for fan control to see how I like it.

For the same profiles, BIOS fan settings seem to be a bit quieter. I fined tuned the AI3 as much as I could but there would always be a fan spike here and there. BIOS is pretty smooth.


Also an irrelevant question, but you may know the answer.





I use the Aura Sync smart effects based on CPU temperature for a couple Aura devices, but for the life of me I couldn't figure out which mobo sensor below does Armoury Crate utilize to change the lighting...





I am assuming it is the last one, below the PECI as it kind of matches when I do a stress test.