Armoury Crate reinstall

OnlyAlex · 5 Oct 2023 at 08:10

I had an issue with Armoury Crate software of my ASUS laptop, (I wanted to install an add-on) and the only way to install it again was to uninstall AC using ASUS official uninstaller which I duly did. Re-installed and everything worked perfectly. I followed the steps provided by ASUS, (https://rog.asus.com/articles/guides/how-to-cleanly-uninstall-and-reinstall-armoury-crate/) and the laptop configuration works like it used to, but I am worried that I shouldn’t have done this and will it affect the smooth operation of Windows 11? Many thanks.

I have checked the reliability checker and can see all the devices and drivers were uninstalled and then reinstalled on restart.

How does the software know what laptop I have and how to control the fans etc. if you re-install the software?

When my previous MSI laptop went in for repairs many years ago, the software equivalent of Armoury Crate didn’t work when I got the laptop back. They had replaced the motherboard. So I’m just interested how the software recognises the laptop I have?

Thanks in advance.

ZXSpectrum · 5 Oct 2023 at 09:29

Its a UEFI/BIOS function so i assume that it reports the BIOS/Hardware identifier in the OS and associates it with the correct version of Armoury Crate on their servers. I am not sure if its the same in Asus laptops as it is on Asus motherboards but there is a entry in the Tools section you can enable and disable Armoury Crate. Its a useful function and needed now that most motherboards/laptops no longer come with driver disks (As no drive) but i find it a pain when enabled so i tend to disable and download the latest manually, particularly with chipset drivers as the ones on the Armoury crate tend to be a little out of date, especially the AMD drivers.

OnlyAlex · 5 Oct 2023 at 11:48

ZXSpectrum said:
Its a UEFI/BIOS function so i assume that it reports the BIOS/Hardware identifier in the OS and associates it with the correct version of Armoury Crate on their servers. I am not sure if its the same in Asus laptops as it is on Asus motherboards but there is an entry in the Tools section you can enable and disable Armoury Crate. Its a useful function and needed now that most motherboards/laptops no longer come with driver disks (As no drive) but i find it a pain when enabled so i tend to disable and download the latest manually, particularly with chipset drivers as the ones on the Armoury crate tend to be a little out of date, especially the AMD drivers.

Okay, thank you. Do you think it was okay to uninstall and reinstall Armoury Crate? It identified everything again, I was just a bit worried.

ZXSpectrum · 5 Oct 2023 at 11:54

Yeah it will be fine, it might even have updated the drivers and programs to a newer version. Its basically like a driver cd that is pulled over the internet from a server. I am not 100% but i believe they do update armoury crate when they update the drivers on their website, but dont quote me on that.

OnlyAlex · 5 Oct 2023 at 11:57

ZXSpectrum said:
Yeah it will be fine, it might even have updated the drivers and programs to a newer version. Its basically like a driver cd that is pulled over the internet from a server. I am not 100% but i believe they do update armoury crate when they update the drivers on their website, but dont quote me on that.

Cheers, thank you.