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Final Update (hopefully) The problem is the USB2 controller on the Asus Z690-e motherboard, or at least, the drivers in windows 10 for the controller. The driver appears to crash during sustained relatively high utilisation, causing iCue to miss a few pings to the sensors. it appears to be just long enough to hit the failure threshold for iCue to decide that it's been unplugged. My (kinda janky) solution was to spend a small amount on a usb3 to 2xusb2 header adaptor card, since installing that, it has worked without any problems.

So i've been doing further troubleshooting directly with Corsair. Having received a replacement commander core, it worked fine until iCue decided that there was a mandatory firmware update to bring it up to firmware version v2.6.201. Within 20 minutes of updating the firmware, the controller had disconnected from iCue and was doing the same thing as the original. At this point, we suspect there is an incompatibility between the current firmware and the USB host on the motherboard. Support gave me an old firmware file to reinstall, and it has been stable since, with the caveat that I can't control it or view it's sensors because iCue wants to force me to update back to the broken firmware.

the cooler itself is powered by a sata power connector. the pump is controlled via one of the USB headers on the motherboard and the only other connection is to the fan/pump header, but it's only to feedback the RPM to the motherboard, The thermals are performing fine, and I can hear the fans ramp up when the CPU is working, so it's not a power issue. the bios doesn't seem to have any options in it other than basic pump/fan speed and 'AI' cooling.

Hi All, Need some ideas here. I recently upgraded from an Asus TUF Z370Plus to an Asus ROG Z690-E, along with an i9 12900KF and 64gb of Vengeance DDR5 RAM. With a Corsair iCue H150i Elite Capellix cooler. *edit: the cooler was in use on the system pre-upgrade and worked perfectly fine I had chosen the ASUS because Corsair iCue works with the Asus motherboards, which is fine and I can control the lighting on the motherboard from iCue and can see all of the sensors. however the motherboard seems to have taken over the cooler. It's doing an OK job of managing the thermals, but I would rather be able to see and control the fan curves and the likes from the same location, in this case, iCue. Following the instructions on the corsair website which says to remove the controller from devices and then scanning for hardware changes will have the cooler show up for about 30 seconds, then it disappears. On top of this, all lighting on the cooler and fans just goes bright red, and cannot be changed. Asus support has come back to say "why not use Armoury crate" and corsair just said to reinstall iCue...I don't want to use Armoury crate, because I can't control the cooler from there either, and frankly it's just not that good... and reinstalling iCue was next to useless. Has anyone had any experience in dealing with this sort of issue?

I'm building a new media server, the boot drive is currently a 32gb USB stick, an SSD would probably be better