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    Keyboard backlight issues

    Discussion in 'Sager/Clevo Reviews & Owners' Lounges' started by ignorant, Aug 22, 2015.

  1. ignorant

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    [SOLVED, see bottom of this post]

    (sorry, I was meaning to post this in the Sager and Clevo section, feel free to move)

    Hey guys. Me again.

    Yesterday I noticed that the keyboard backlight got stuck with the blue default color. Changing the colors in the dedicated window (which is from a program called GameFeet.exe, apparently), didn't do anything, and all backlight effects and other things related to it didn't seem to work.

    Okay, I thought it was just Windows 10 messing up with drivers again, as I had issues with the audio driver too before, after Windows 10.

    So first of all I tried to uninstall the entry Hotkey 3.06.17 in Programs and Features, and I got an error during uninstallation without any further explanation:
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    However the program seemed to be uninstalled.
    I then installed the hotkey drivers again (those for Windows 8.1 that came with the laptop), but during installation another error message said only Windows 7 or newer was supported:
    [​IMG]

    The program however did install, just now the GameFeet.exe program is missing the third tab, the one for the backlight, after the tabs Macro and Statistics. Now it looks like this:
    [​IMG]

    However I found the backlight part of that window in a separete exe, KbColorPicker.exe, and from there I still couldn't get the backlight to get unstuck.

    I google all I could and found newer drivers here: http://www.clevo.com/en/e-services/download/ftpOut.asp?Lmodel=P770ZM&ltype=9&submit=+GO+

    I downloaded and installed Hotkey AP 3.20.35 for Win8.1 64-bit, same errors again, and Backlight tab still missing.

    [SOLVED]
    [However, I was able to get the Backlight tab back by clicking on "Flexikey" from the Clevo Control Center, and the backlight colors now change properly. All good then. Thanks anyway for reading this.]
     
    Last edited: Aug 22, 2015
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