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I am running using the MSI Gaming Pro CARBON motherboard, and it has RGB led's on it that I would like to manually control myself. MSI does not have a library out for it, and I cannot find one to use. How can I access these RGB LEDs to program them my own (I do not like the app MSI made for it and want to make my own little one).
I take it that you're trying to do this on windows.
Yes, I am doing this on Windows 10.
Process Monitor
You could use Process Monitor to observe what the MSI app does.
It might tell you whether it's using a DLL to do the actual work (which you should be able to call), or whether it's interacting which some kind of driver.
I tried for about half an hour with Process Monitor, however it does a lot of other processing (including handling over clock, and a load of other useless stuff- specially since I am over clocked through the boot process anyways). I think I found a possibly usable dll called "ds300 led DLL.dll". but it could be wrong (Not sure how I could open it up to check for any notes or the programming to check it out).
Exploring DLLs -> Is there any native DLL export functions viewer? - Stack Overflow
WinDbg -> WDK and WinDbg downloads - Windows Hardware Dev Center
Knowing the name of the DLL is a big help.
You should be able to trap calls to it, and perhaps figure out what the API is.
The license agreement may not allow that sort of thing though. Trapping calls to the DLL might be perceived to be in the category of "reverse engineering," which is almost always forbidden by proprietary software EULAs. Tread carefully.Quote:
Originally Posted by Salem
I opened it, and wow. It is a huge mess that I just cannot sort through. Is there any way I could manually do it (the hard way :/ )- which I am guessing is the same process of gaining functional control of CPU/SYSTEM fans?