Cherry MX Board 1.0 RGB: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 09:56, 28 November 2023

I bought this mechanical keyboard resently and experienced some problems with the RGB part of it. It was not possible for me to edit or change anything as the Cherry Utility software (v 1.0.9) gave an expression of should be possible. My keyboard was shipped with the 0.1.0.1 firmware and i had a suspicion that it might need an upgrade due to the way it behaved.

I searched the accompanying documentation (it was very sparse) and Intarwebs but found absolutely nothing that indicated any firmware updates were released :-/

Some time later I was looking thrugh the installation folders and suddenly found what very much looked like firmware upgrade files for SEVERAL diferent Cherry Keyboards !!

It turns out that this keyboard can easily be firmware upgraded althoug I could not find any information on how to do it.

All i had to du was run the file that corrosponds to the keyboard model i got :-) (i did it as administrator just to be shure it would go without Windows interfering)

After this EVERYTHING worked as expected.

I do not understand why Chery didn't flag this up much more. . . that doesn't make sense !?!

The path where i found the firmware files was:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Cherry\UtilitySoftware\UpdateData

This is a directory listing of the content:


C:\Program Files (x86)\Cherry\UtilitySoftware\UpdateData>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 1234-5678

 Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Cherry\UtilitySoftware\UpdateData

27-04-2022  08:26    <DIR>          .
27-04-2022  08:26    <DIR>          ..
01-12-2020  05:27         3.309.568 CCF_MX_1.0_TKL_BL_0104.exe
01-08-2020  03:48         3.309.056 CCF_MX_1.0_TKL_NBL_0105.exe
13-10-2020  13:14         3.309.568 CCF_MX_8.0_TKL_BL_0104.exe
18-09-2021  08:37            15.399 FWVerInfo.Ver
23-06-2021  03:27         2.947.584 G80_3000N_FL_RGB_0102.exe
18-09-2021  05:28         3.047.424 G80_3000N_FL_RGB_DE_OFFICE_0102.exe
18-09-2021  05:25         3.047.424 G80_3000N_FL_RGB_EU_OFFICE_0102.exe
15-09-2021  10:19         3.043.840 G80_3000N_TKL_RGB_DE_V0102.exe
15-09-2021  10:24         3.043.840 G80_3000N_TKL_RGB_V0102.exe
03-12-2020  08:28         3.312.640 G80_3000_TKL_NBL_0103.exe
09-06-2020  07:41         3.312.640 G80_3000_TKL_NBL_KOREAN_0100.exe
07-08-2021  05:32         3.332.096 G80_3000_TKL_RGB_0106.exe
27-05-2021  10:20         3.309.056 MC_2.1_0104.exe
03-06-2020  05:13         3.349.504 MC_3.1_0107.exe
20-05-2021  07:48         3.060.224 MC_3.1_3333_0103.exe
25-12-2019  08:18         3.349.504 MC_8.1_0107.exe
17-08-2021  11:45         4.219.904 MC_9620_0131.exe
03-12-2020  09:47         3.335.168 MV_BOARD_3.0_FL_RGB_0105.exe
03-12-2020  10:09         3.313.152 MX_1.0_FL_BL_0103.exe
17-08-2020  09:15         3.312.640 MX_1.0_FL_NBL_0102.exe
03-12-2020  10:00         3.335.168 MX_1.0_FL_RGB_0105.exe
25-04-2020  11:22         2.125.824 MX_BOARD_1.0_TKL_BL_0111.exe
09-11-2020  04:03         3.312.128 MX_BOARD_1.0_TKL_RGB_0104.exe
27-10-2020  11:10         3.312.128 MX_BOARD_1.0_TKL_RGB_DE_0102.exe
18-09-2021  08:25         3.047.936 MX_BOARD_10.0N_FL_RGB_0101.exe
18-09-2021  08:18         3.047.936 MX_BOARD_10.0N_FL_RGB_DE_0104.exe
01-07-2021  05:45         3.335.168 MX_BOARD_10.0_FL_RGB_0109.exe
02-12-2020  03:24         3.312.640 MX_BOARD_2.0S_FL_NBL_0104.exe
12-08-2021  08:10         3.335.680 MX_BOARD_2.0S_FL_RGB_0104.exe
20-08-2021  05:42         3.335.680 MX_BOARD_2.0S_FL_RGB_DE_0101.exe
17-12-2020  03:34         3.337.728 MX_BOARD_2.0S_FL_RGB_KR_0101.exe
18-06-2021  08:37         3.312.128 MX_BOARD_3.0S_FL_NBL_0120.exe
14-09-2021  04:14         3.335.168 MX_BOARD_3.0S_FL_RGB_0132.exe
19-05-2020  10:27         3.334.144 MX_BOARD_3.0S_FL_RGB_KOREAN_0104.exe
28-07-2021  11:32         4.709.888 MX_BOARD_3.0S_FL_RGB_THREEMODE_0113.exe
19-07-2021  12:02         4.693.504 MX_BOARD_3.0S_FL_RGB_THREEMODE_DONGLE_0109.exe
12-08-2021  11:04         3.312.640 MX_BOARD_8.0_TKL_RGB_0120.exe
              38 File(s)    119.815.751 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  171.767.029.760 bytes free

C:\Program Files (x86)\Cherry\UtilitySoftware\UpdateData>

You are welcome :-)

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 I bought this mechanical keyboard resently and experienced some problems with the RGB part of it. It was not possible for me to edit or change anything as the [https://www.cherry-world.com/software Cherry Utility software] (v 1.0.9) gave an expression of should be possible. My keyboard was shipped with the 0.1.0.1 firmware and i had a suspicion that it might need an upgrade due to the way it behaved.
-I searched the accomapnying documentation (it was very sparse) and Intarwebs but found absolutely nothing that indicated any firmware updates were released :-/
+I searched the accompanying documentation (it was very sparse) and Intarwebs but found absolutely nothing that indicated any firmware updates were released :-/
 Some time later I was looking thrugh the installation folders and suddenly found what very much looked like firmware upgrade files for SEVERAL diferent Cherry Keyboards !!