Change the settings in the registry to disable the LED on your Asus PCE-AC56.
Change the settings in the registry to disable the LED on your Asus PCE-AC56.
Hello everyone, I've encountered a strange problem lately. You see, I fucking hate LEDS on my tech. I really, really hate how they look, and how they mess with the lighting of my room, which I will admit I am somewhat obsessive about keeping at a nice, pale-white light. Following, when I built my computer in late 2015, I noticed the blue indicator light on my wifi card, and promptly covered it with blu tak, never to be seen again. Problem solved! Problem not solved. 5 years on, and I've encountered a most peculiar issue. You see, the LED on my wifi card is starting to go. I have tested this thoroughly, as I initially suspected it to be an issue with some gunk getting caught in my fan and causing unwanted sounds, but found that to be false. After some trial and error, anything that requires an exchange of large amounts of data, such as loading a new webpage, downloading or uploading a file, etc, causes the indicator LED to flicker, and produce a chirping noise in time with its flickering. As you may have guessed from my hatred of LEDs, I'm very particular when it comes to my sensory experiences, and high pitched noises in irregular patterns fucking destroy me. So, I am looking to turn off the LED permanently. However, there is no software solution pre-made for this, and after some snooping in regedit, I have found 8 registries for my wifi card related to its LED functions. I feel that I am close to a solution, but do not have any clue as to how to edit these registries to achieve my desired results. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. I have attached an image of the registries and included the relevant file path below Pathway: Computer -> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Control -> Class -> {4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} -> 0007
I'll maintain this as a final option, avoiding any physical changes.