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[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

If you don't need the blazing speed of a PCI-e NVMe drive for your Windows installation, you can pick up a 2.5" SSD SATA drive in the size of your choice fairly inexpensively. You'll also need a bracket or a sled for installing a 2.5" drive in a 3.5" bay. Or, if the M.2 slot in the Designare (I have a different mobo) supports a SATA M.2 drive, you could pick up one of those for a little more than a 2.5" SSD SATA.

Then temporarily remove your Catalina drive, install whatever new drive you purchase, and boot from the windows installer. If you haven't created a Windows 10 install USB yet, and, if you have a PC, google something like "create windows 10 installer". It's a very simple process. If you have no PC, then google something like "create Windows 10 installer on macOS". You'll come up with several guides to choose from.

When Windows is installed, reinstall the Catalina drive, and Windows SHOULD appear as another boot choice on the Clover screen.

Thanks for your answer. But if I "can pick up a 2.5" SSD SATA drive", should I be worried by the M2M and M2P slot issue ?
 
  • Yes I can boot from the USB
Great! That means something might be wrong with the EFI partition of the internal Mojave SSD.
  • Please mount EFI partition of Mojave SSD.
  • Compress and upload the CLOVER folder. You may remove serial numbers from SMBIOS section of config.plist before compressing and uploading the CLOVER folder. Be sure to keep the original config.plist safe.
 
@CaseySJ Hello Mate, could you give US 1-2 SSD 2,5’ compatible with this hardware config to do a Backup ?
The one linked into The Buyers guide are quite expensive with 1TB, have you got some cheap ? Could you give us what you use ?
I can remember you gave us advice about some cheap SSD case but can’t find them back.
Could you put the link back ?

Thank you very much!
 
@CaseySJ So I have tried to backup the firmware (TB3 on Z390 Designare) now via flashrom. When trying with Raspberry Pi I had the LEDs red instantly, when using the USB programmer a bit of wiggling was necessary. BUT: In both cases I get:
"No EEPROM/flash device found.
Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically."


Any idea what to do?
 
Glad to see you got it working. Please post any issues you find with Thunderbolt and USB functionality or reliability. (But also mention that you're using GC-Alpine Ridge.)

OK, after some tests comparing with thunderbolt on my MacBook Pro 15.1 using this device (iStyle MULTIMEDIA HUB 2019):
Captură de ecran din 2020-03-20 la 14.47.35.png

I can say:
1. All ports work on GC-Alpine Ridge: 2 thunderbolt (USB-C), HDMI, 2 mini displayport, except USB-2.
2. All ports work on iStyle MULTIMEDIA HUB (HDMI, micro and normal SD, USB-3, gigabit ethernet) except USB-2 and USB-C port (both USB-2 and 3).
Question: How can I enable USB-2 HUB on GC-Alpine Ridge and why USB-C port on iStyle doesn't work?
 
Great! That means something might be wrong with the EFI partition of the internal Mojave SSD.
  • Please mount EFI partition of Mojave SSD.
  • Compress and upload the CLOVER folder. You may remove serial numbers from SMBIOS section of config.plist before compressing and uploading the CLOVER folder. Be sure to keep the original config.plist safe.

Here you go...
 

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@CaseySJ the links in your last post are not active
 
Attached is the GC-Titan Ridge firmware version 23 modified according to @Elias64Fr's input. Please evaluate. It may be necessary to apply ThunderboltDROM by extracting those bytes from the binary image and copying them into the SSDT.

Hello everybody,

I was wondering about the whole process and how to get started (I have a GC-Titan Ridge card installed on a Z390M Gaming Mobo) for getting the Thunderbolt Bus activated. I have seen that PCIe GC-Titan Ridge could come, if I understood correctly) with various firmware versions (NVM23, NVM43 etc) so would the process be ideally like that:
  1. recover the current firmware (like done for the Z390M designare https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...olt-3-i7-9700k-amd-rx-580.267551/post-2062432)
  2. Modify the current firmware
  3. flash the modified firmware with the described rasperry Pi procedure
  4. test firmware and SSDT following the procedure (https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...olt-3-i7-9700k-amd-rx-580.267551/post-2086862)
Or maybe start directly on step 3 with existing patched firmwares NVM23 or NVM43?

Many thanks and stay virus free !
 
@CaseySJ Hello Mate, could you give US 1-2 SSD 2,5’ compatible with this hardware config to do a Backup ?
The one linked into The Buyers guide are quite expensive with 1TB, have you got some cheap ? Could you give us what you use ?
I can remember you gave us advice about some cheap SSD case but can’t find them back.
Could you put the link back ?

Thank you very much!
I have tried several different 2.5" SATA SSDs and all of them work properly. Fortunately, the SATA standard is very reliable across all systems. So you're free to choose any 2.5" SATA SSD.

Regarding external enclosures, I personally use these ones, but any USB 3.0-capable enclosure should work:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KYF1LLI/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
 
@CaseySJ the links in your last post are not active
Those are not links! I've modified the post as follows:

"Note: The thing below is a bitmap image. Please go to Post #1, open the spoiler, and click on the links you find there."
 
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