> Turns out the mother­board uses a pro­pri­et­ary Su­per I/O chip: Nu­vo­ton NC­T6795D! ... This chip is ap­par­ently made ex­clus­ively for MSI and MSI re­fus

> Turns out the mother­board uses a pro­pri­et­ary Su­per I/O chip: Nu­vo­ton NC­T6795D! ... This chip is ap­par­ently made ex­clus­ively for MSI and MSI re­fuses to provide the spec­sheets for the chip This is why exclusivity agreements suck for the user. It means the vendor gets to claim they can't release details of something for competitive reasons. I'm glad OP was able to reverse engineer the driver to control the RGB LEDs. Now if only motherboard manufacturers would offer a cheaper board without an LED driver that most people don't care about...