PowerSpec G439 - Default Fan and Graphics Card RGB Settings

MrBurro22

I've been messing with different RGB software and have come to the conclusion I preferred the default RGB color patterns that came with the machine. I can't seem to replicate them with the apps I'm using. Is there a way to restore whatever the defaults were?

PowerSpec_MikeW

So to be clear the front fans are not changing colors? It sounds like you got an AIO that's RGB and the case is ARGB. Some of the early ones were like this. The PCB on the back is a fan/RGB controller. So two cables, one for the fan and one for RGB. The AIO would be on a separate header.

Try this. In MSI Center set a solid color. Toggle the "M" on the case until the case LED's match and then switch it to rainbow. The buttons on the case toggle the controller off of motherboard control.

Vladdy

Hello,

http://powerspec.com/systems/archives/system_archive.phtml?selection=g439&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

Looks like that motherboard is the MSI Pro Z690-A DDR4. Make sure you install MSI CENTER then Mystic Light plugin. This software should let you go back to default settings.

-V

PowerSpec_MikeW

Default is the Rainbow style.

MrBurro22

Thanks for the responses. I should explain in a little more detail, I was hoping there was something easy I was missing to do this so kept the initial post lightweight.

The front and rear case fans I have not been able to control. I'm not sure exactly when, but at some point they stopped doing the fully lit circular rainbow pattern (bottom image) and switched to rotating one color at a time (top image). I'm trying to get the fully lit circular rainbow behavior back. I had also messed up the GC and water cooler colors playing around with OpenRGB, uninstalling that software and shutting down (not just restarting) seems to have fixed that though (minor compliant but the rainbow patterns on that software weren't as pleasing to me as whatever the defaults were).

I have tried MSI center, the mystic light app alone, and the mystic light download from the PowerSpec Drivers and support page. I've uninstalled all other color related apps on the machine and tried different orders and combinations of uninstalling-reinstalling mystic light and MSI center. I opened the case and all the fan cables are plugged into "fan" ports on a pcb separate from the moherboard. Also tried OpenRGB as mentioned and evga precision x1. Interestingly, OpenRGB registered the case fans and printed something like 'unable to determine number of devices on channel'. It looks like there's a single cable running off one of the MSI motherboard fan color pinouts and onto a smaller pcb that the fans are plugged into, so I'm wondering if something's wrong/weird with the multiplexing going on on that board. The water cooler leds can be controlled through MSI center and those are plugged directly onto the motherboard.

Hopefully there's something I'm stupidly missing here. Obviously not a huge problem, it's just frustrating to know the hardware is capable of doing what I want, but unclear how to get it to actually do that. Happy to provide any other information!

MrBurro22

Sorry, I was afk for a while but did want to get back now to report I'm a fool - using the buttons on the case fixed it. I was not even aware that's what they did. Thanks for the help!