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July 11th, 2021 21:00
Area-51 R2, change 3rd party Corsair ram color
I upgraded the Dell OEM ram to Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 64GB (4x16GB) DDR4 DRAM 2666MHz C16 memory kit. I want to control the color of the RGB ram, however I tried using BOTH versions of the latest ICUE software. The software does NOT detect the RGB ram in my computer. Corsair tech support says it should work and be compatible. Besides the software not detecting the software, the ram cards themselves work perfectly. How can I control color of RGB ram in my Area-51 R2?
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speedstep
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July 11th, 2021 22:00
The SPD roms and therefore the RGB controls are deliberately not presented to the user to modify because that's how bad actors put malware on your system that will survive erasure and format of the system. Bios and SPD updates are now blocked by signature validation code as well as only working for the "trusted installer account."
This is also why once you enable signed BIOS updates you cannot revert to an earlier BIOS.
Using a UEFI BIOS rootkit, a Hacking Team group created a module for their Remote Control System (Galileo) surveillance software, which would check to see if the OS was infected with its malware agent every time the user rebooted the PC and would re-infect the system if its agent was missing.
The SPD rom malware was discovered when IT staff at a bank found code from a part of the Metasploit tool called Meterpreter in the physical spd roms of a Windows server. Metasploit is a widely used tool that penetration testers — hackers who attack a network to check its defenses — employ to create simulated attacks.
Other Items like INTEL VPRO can reinstall OS and or change BIOS etc remotely without the user even knowing what is going on.
https://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2018/07/install-windows-10-remotely-using-amt-vpro/
Rabbitdude
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July 11th, 2021 23:00
RGB ram and RGB control of said ram works just fine on the Aurora R10-12. Most likely just isn't supported on your 2014 Area-51 R2 board. Who knows, Alienware is funky that way.