I had a friend ask for recommendations for prebuilts. I found one that was under budget and over spec for their needs and sent them the info. They ended up going with an overbudget one with arguably worse specs (they didn’t really need the specs I was suggesting but bang for buck it made sense and was still under budget) because it had all the lights that the seller could shove in it. No real judgement if that’s your style and you have the money, but it just upset me to have spent time doing research for them only to have them ignore all of that because they failed to mention that lights were important.
The bloody lights everyone is obsessed with nowadays caused me numerous nights of shit sleep. Some devices designed by companies who clearly think too much of themselves decided that they would keep their LEDs on despite the computer shutting down.
If anyone else is experiencing this issue, look for ErP in your BIOS/EFI and then turn it on/enable it.
Caveat: you won’t be able to charge your USB devices using your PC USB ports while the PC is shutdown if you change this setting.
If its an Asus there is actually a setting to deal specifically with the lighting. One in the UEFI turns it off completely. Otherworldly you can install their software and tell it to turn off when the PC is off or in sleep mode.
I just assumed that if a motherboard had an RGB header you could control it from the BIOS, because that’s how it worked ten years ago. But no, these days you need their software, which crashes on install under windows and doesn’t support anything else.
I swapped the motherboard on my old desktop /now server, and now it does this. Fan lights stay on when it’s shut down. It’s a server so it’s never off except when something went wrong but it’s annoying to think it’s on when it’s not.
Next time I need to shut it off I’ll check for this setting, thanks for the tip!
Then it will look off when it’s on 😆. I just want to be able to tell when it’s off by looking at it. It doesn’t actually bother me, it’s not in my bedroom, it’s in the lounge attached to the TV.
Some keyboards allow you to map different keys to different things depending on certain settings. So for example you could make it so that if you press ctrl+esc+enter your keyboard knows that instead of typing in English, you want your keyboard to act as though it’s a french keyboard. Some keyboards are made with this feature in mind and ship with lights that you can program to indicate which “layer” (keyboard setting) is currently active. So if you see a red light it’s English and blue it’s French. That’s probably poorly explained and only a small example of how layers can be used, but in general it’s just a preset layout that you can impose on your keyboard. The specifics of the layout are often up to you. If you’re interested there’s several companies out there making specialty keyboards and most have YouTube explanations if you google keyboard layers that are definitely clearer than my explanation.
I had a friend ask for recommendations for prebuilts. I found one that was under budget and over spec for their needs and sent them the info. They ended up going with an overbudget one with arguably worse specs (they didn’t really need the specs I was suggesting but bang for buck it made sense and was still under budget) because it had all the lights that the seller could shove in it. No real judgement if that’s your style and you have the money, but it just upset me to have spent time doing research for them only to have them ignore all of that because they failed to mention that lights were important.
The bloody lights everyone is obsessed with nowadays caused me numerous nights of shit sleep. Some devices designed by companies who clearly think too much of themselves decided that they would keep their LEDs on despite the computer shutting down.
If anyone else is experiencing this issue, look for ErP in your BIOS/EFI and then turn it on/enable it.
Caveat: you won’t be able to charge your USB devices using your PC USB ports while the PC is shutdown if you change this setting.
If its an Asus there is actually a setting to deal specifically with the lighting. One in the UEFI turns it off completely. Otherworldly you can install their software and tell it to turn off when the PC is off or in sleep mode.
Turns out that my CPU fan requires a proprietary device to turn off the rgb in it, or adjust it at all.
I just assumed that if a motherboard had an RGB header you could control it from the BIOS, because that’s how it worked ten years ago. But no, these days you need their software, which crashes on install under windows and doesn’t support anything else.
If you are lucky OpenRGB might work.
Unless the fan has a separate battery back up (which would be very weird) then this should not matter if you enable ErP.
AFAIK enabling ErP will shut off power to all components when the computer is turned off. Good luck!
I swapped the motherboard on my old desktop /now server, and now it does this. Fan lights stay on when it’s shut down. It’s a server so it’s never off except when something went wrong but it’s annoying to think it’s on when it’s not.
Next time I need to shut it off I’ll check for this setting, thanks for the tip!
You can often just disable all the lights in the UEFI instead including when on.
Then it will look off when it’s on 😆. I just want to be able to tell when it’s off by looking at it. It doesn’t actually bother me, it’s not in my bedroom, it’s in the lounge attached to the TV.
Uhm, nothing worse than when people ask your opinion on things that you literally need to know to perform your job and then just ignore it completely.
Only the keyboard lights matter!
Unironically, yes. Especially if you have a nice keyboard that allows layers.
Layers? What’s that mean in this context?
Some keyboards allow you to map different keys to different things depending on certain settings. So for example you could make it so that if you press ctrl+esc+enter your keyboard knows that instead of typing in English, you want your keyboard to act as though it’s a french keyboard. Some keyboards are made with this feature in mind and ship with lights that you can program to indicate which “layer” (keyboard setting) is currently active. So if you see a red light it’s English and blue it’s French. That’s probably poorly explained and only a small example of how layers can be used, but in general it’s just a preset layout that you can impose on your keyboard. The specifics of the layout are often up to you. If you’re interested there’s several companies out there making specialty keyboards and most have YouTube explanations if you google keyboard layers that are definitely clearer than my explanation.
Obviously the pretty lights are important, it’s for playing the games with pretty lights.
Sounds like all shopping experiences with the wife and daughters. They purposefully choose the other one when asking for my opinion.
My case is black, with black accents, with no window, with soundproofing inside, it’s hidden behind my screen