Crucial Ballistix Tracer RAM LED control

Proinsias · 2014-11-11 00:46:45

I've got a single 4GB stick of Crucial Ballistix tracer RAM which works fine. It has flashing LED's which irritate me, I looked into this a year or so back and finding little in the way of control I placed a biology textbook on the top of tower which minimized the irritation. Recently I loaned out the textbook and before replacing it with another textbook thought I'd check again for any control options. Google is failing me again, the Crucial site offers the M.O.D control download but it doesn't seem linux friendly and I thought before picking another textbook to slightly mask the irritation I'd ask for help.

RAM: http://uk.crucial.com/ProductDisplay?ur … reId=10153

And the software to control it:
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/memory-ba … od-utility

Meskarune · 2014-11-11 21:16:19

I'm drawing a blank on this, and couldn't find much useful information searching the internet. You might try contacting crucial about this, I'm sure they have had other linux using customers in the past and they seem to have decent customer support.

Proinsias · 2014-11-11 22:27:30

Cheers, I've sent them an email.

crondog · 2014-11-11 22:59:19

*I am not recommending you try this because you can seriously mess things up, but this is just for informational purposes*

Supposedly you can control your ram leds through SMbus (subset of i2c) which means that you can read and write values via i2cget and i2cset. So depending on how adventurous you are you could try yourself

Proinsias · 2014-11-11 23:53:50

I'll wait to see what Crucial have to say. Not keen on seriously messing things up but happy to have something to look into, thanks. It's currently a very minor irritation but since ditching OSX & Windows to have something I've got a of bit control over it feels a little like my hardware is laughing at me.

Last edited by Proinsias (2014-11-11 23:54:20)

MoonSwan · 2014-11-12 18:08:52

You could, if this doesn't pose an over-heating issue, tape a bit of black paper or electrical tape over the LEDs perhaps. I do this to some of the LEDs on my desktop and especially laptops. Laptop manufacturers seem to have this competition about who can use the most LEDs on their keyboard, power button, hdd activity LED, etc. Thankfully, HP, with its HP Envy 6 model, bucked that trend and uses all of two LEDs. One red one for the wifi toggle button and one for the power button. Neither flash and unobtrusive.

Sorry about rambling, I was just trying to point out that there is hope in the world of over-used LEDs.

Proinsias · 2014-11-16 04:55:55

Crucial advised me to install Windows. I've patched the issue with another book in the mean time.

Rhubarb · 2014-11-16 10:18:24

You may have some luck by having a look to see if they're listed under /sys/class/leds

With thanks to Trilby's post in another related thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1473977

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Crucial Ballistix Tracer RAM LED control

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