FIX: Clevo Control Center (FlexiKey) Not Working

During restart, Control Center (HotKey) and it's dependents (Flexikey/GPU Overclocking/CPU Memory OC) fail to load and an on screen message states the program needs a PC restart.

This well known issue is several years old and all over online forums. The suggested fixes so far have all been ineffective and temporary:

1- Restart the PC repeatedly. Rarely works but when it does, there is a very high probability the problem will return on the next startup, and near guaranteed to eventually return on a future startup.

2- Uninstall Control Center and reinstall the newest Control Center version for your model. This method usually works but when it does, there is a very high probability the problem will return on OS/hardware updates or eventually on startup.

Found a permanent fix:

1- Power Options
2- Choose what the power buttons do
3- Change settings that are currently unavailable
4- Disable (Turn on fast startup)
5- Shut down PC (Do not restart, it won't work)
6 - Power on

Control Center and it's dependents will all now properly load on startup, and the error message is gone for good.

PC startup is significantly faster as well.

System Model P65_67RSRP
Clevo, Malibal

 

This is how clevo works. You get barebones notebook with broken software.

 

What exactly did turning Fast Startup off fix with Flexikey, exactly?

 

Edited original post to reply to this question. Also fixed it to reflect that it fixes the entire Control Center (Hotkey) and it's dependents, not just Flexikey.

 

Fast Startup is the bane of my existence.

 

I had issues with CCC (I think) as well. I’ve deleted lines from the registry key which helped but finally just decided to delete CCC all together and adjust everything else via the windows power settings utility. Just mad I can’t control my fans or change my keyboard color from blue to anything else lol.

 

True you can't force the different fan modes without CCC but you can still go back and forth between max fan and auto without it while using the FN+1 combo at least on my model P751. If CCC ever gives me any problems that is likely what I will do. Keyboard lights not changable is my bigger issue without CCC.

 

Not the first time fast startup has caused problems with something that's supposed to be active on launch. Better to just turn it off the first time you boot up and be done with it.

 

Your Fn+1 trick just blew my @$(&” mind. Now the blue lights are just asthetic.

So uh... anyone know how to change the key board lights without CCC? Lol

 

What exactly is fast startup?

 

It acts like hibernate, loads windows from hiberfil.sys instead of booting normally. It's supposed to cut down on boot time, but mostly it just messes with services that are supposed to launch with Windows and doesn't do much for startup, especially if you've got an SSD.

 

My OS is on an SSD. Is this something I should disable? Not to highjack this thread this is just interesting to me.

 

Yees. It’s useless if you have SSDs. Google fast startup and see all problems with the trash.

 

Yeah. I turned it off on all my systems. While it hasn't specifically caused me problems on any of them, it's pretty pointless and I don't want to run into problems down the road.

 

Another thing I've found is that for an unknown reason DWS (After aplying Destroy spying option) also messes up CCC (makes it unresponsive). The only solution I've found so far is a clean OS reinstall.

 

The Fn+! (1) is a life saver, it is the only control center hotkey that persists after removing CCC. I wish I could also get the hotkey back for keyboard light off, but max fan toggle is a must and I am glad is there.

When I first got my laptop it greeted me with a cool combination of random color preset and breathing preset. And like a first kiss, that is my favorite. But even with CCC installed; it is not an option. But it does still use that keyboard light on every boot cycle. Then I found myself needing to remove CCC, and having this same blue only keyboard light.

I did find a way to bring that boot up keyboard light into windows though.

If CCC is not on system, and if you go from shut off into bios, then either save and exit or don't save and exit; as it boots into windows, it will still have the boot-up keyboard light. It will stay on this through restarts or boots into bios, but it won't survive sleep, or a boot straight to windows. It is a pain, but a welcome find.

 

I have CCC uninstalled, and all my FN keys still work. As for KB light control, look at Obsidian-PC's Keyboard LED app.

 

I wonder if my keyboard led app is being affected by this same issue.
I will try it tomorrow with both fastboot enabled and disabled.
Since it works fine in my computer (but i always disable fastboot) and other user say the colors are not re-set after sleep.
I will check this tomorrow.
At the moment to detect a sleep state i registered a power state event but maybe this event is not trigger with fastboot / fast start enabled...

 

It took me nearly two years with this laptop to realize I could do that command to toggle fan speed. Now I just download and keep a copy of the manual to glance at.

There is a list of the function key settings in the manual that may be of interest to you on page 1-22. You can find it here: http://www.eluktronics.com/content/Manuals/P6x0RS(G)/P6x0RS-G_Manual.pdf

As for the lights, I think you can only use a shortcut to change the illumination of the keyboard (Fn + F4); other than that you'd need to customize it via the Keyboard Backlight Application, which you can access via (Fn + Numpad /).

 

I have never had fast boot enabled, but I have had fast start enabled up until the time I read this thread, (props to OP). Disabling fast start also fixed another issue I was having, with not being able to enter bios on boot. I was having to shutdown with shift held down to go into proper power off state. My issues with CCC seemed to be related to not playing nice with other software. I will take my comments on that to your thread for the new software if it helps. For now though I have to enter a sleep state of my own

 

What worked for me is:
*Download the latest version of CCC for your computer from the Prostar website. Save it the zip file somewhere, don't run it yet.
*Uninstall CCC, though you can use the installer to uninstall it.
* Clean up the registry (I used CCleaner).
*Turn off the computer (don't do a "restart").
* Turn on the computer, run the installer (install CCC from scratch). Basically you want the installer to redo the registry and startup settings.
* Turn off the computer again, then turn on.

Worked for me! Your mileage may vary. Whatever. Can't hurt.
(I turned off "fast start" too before installing CCC, but I'm not convinced that has anything to do with it. To me, reinstalling from scratch was the key.)