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I’m hoping to get some help from the many experts on this forum to see if I can get this Thunderbolt 3 card to work.
My build is based on this Golden build by @JCMunson with a lot of follow up help from @P1LGRIM @pastrychef @RehabMan and @Stork who was instrumental in helping me with the RX580 install. I have followed @JCMunsonII instructions to the letter with a few minor exceptions, notably power management, USB port mapping and GPU (his was Nvidia and mine was RX580). Shout out to @BoomR who has been very patient with me while I spam his Golden Build thread.
I initially set out to pick up ASUS ThunderboltEX2 PCIe Expansion Card, then quickly realized that those are neither supported by the Z270 platform nor are readily available. I then decided to look to the ASUS ThunderboltEX3 as the solution. As I was doing my research the one thing that appealed to me, also pointed out by @BoomR here was that the GC-Alpine Ridge card had 2x TH3 ports vs only 1x on the ASUS ThunderboltEX3. I also took note that he entertained the possibility of the ASUS card matched with his GA-Z370 AORUS UG. I figured, why not reverse that and match the Gigabyte TH3 card with my ASUS? I then stumbled on this thread on overclock forums where this guy actually pairs the newer, updated ASUS driver with the Alpine Ridge. I thought it was crazy too until I was able to get it working without any problems in Windows. Still works – hot plug and everything.
I’m getting kind of desperate trying to get it up and running in High Sierra 10.3.6. I'm running the latest 1301 BIOS and have tried just about every BIOS setting imaginable and macOS simply doesn’t recognize the audio interface. BTW, I'm using the new Slate VRS8 thunderbolt audio interface. Before you say: "it's the driver" I've successfully tested this interface on a trashcan Mac Pro running macOS Sierra and my Macbook Pro running Mojave and it worked without a hitch. Other than some of my USB 3.0 ports not working (I haven’t spent the time to map them all) and this issue, everything else works 100% including sleep, iMessage, etc.
Some like @kgp manage to have a successful implementation, with hotplug I might add, and others like @brutwurm just give up. Posts like this one by @Middleman give me hope, though our systems and AIC's slightly differ. I would really appreciate any assistance anyone can provide!
My EFI folder is attached along with a few screenshots of the key folders for quick reference. Also including a log zip file which includes ASL Messages and IORegistry output and Clover Boot log.
My build is based on this Golden build by @JCMunson with a lot of follow up help from @P1LGRIM @pastrychef @RehabMan and @Stork who was instrumental in helping me with the RX580 install. I have followed @JCMunsonII instructions to the letter with a few minor exceptions, notably power management, USB port mapping and GPU (his was Nvidia and mine was RX580). Shout out to @BoomR who has been very patient with me while I spam his Golden Build thread.
I initially set out to pick up ASUS ThunderboltEX2 PCIe Expansion Card, then quickly realized that those are neither supported by the Z270 platform nor are readily available. I then decided to look to the ASUS ThunderboltEX3 as the solution. As I was doing my research the one thing that appealed to me, also pointed out by @BoomR here was that the GC-Alpine Ridge card had 2x TH3 ports vs only 1x on the ASUS ThunderboltEX3. I also took note that he entertained the possibility of the ASUS card matched with his GA-Z370 AORUS UG. I figured, why not reverse that and match the Gigabyte TH3 card with my ASUS? I then stumbled on this thread on overclock forums where this guy actually pairs the newer, updated ASUS driver with the Alpine Ridge. I thought it was crazy too until I was able to get it working without any problems in Windows. Still works – hot plug and everything.
I’m getting kind of desperate trying to get it up and running in High Sierra 10.3.6. I'm running the latest 1301 BIOS and have tried just about every BIOS setting imaginable and macOS simply doesn’t recognize the audio interface. BTW, I'm using the new Slate VRS8 thunderbolt audio interface. Before you say: "it's the driver" I've successfully tested this interface on a trashcan Mac Pro running macOS Sierra and my Macbook Pro running Mojave and it worked without a hitch. Other than some of my USB 3.0 ports not working (I haven’t spent the time to map them all) and this issue, everything else works 100% including sleep, iMessage, etc.
Some like @kgp manage to have a successful implementation, with hotplug I might add, and others like @brutwurm just give up. Posts like this one by @Middleman give me hope, though our systems and AIC's slightly differ. I would really appreciate any assistance anyone can provide!
My EFI folder is attached along with a few screenshots of the key folders for quick reference. Also including a log zip file which includes ASL Messages and IORegistry output and Clover Boot log.
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