- Yes, I don't know if you missed in one of my last posts but every time I have flashed/done any component install the power supply is 100% turned off and unplugged. Every time I do a new test its cold boot unless specifically testing warm boot.
- The modified card works fine, it is the ON-BOARD Alpine Ridge controller that disappears from the system once the GC-TR is installed:
No TR Card+Cold Boot+Thunderbolt Device plugged in to MOTHERBOARD TB3: It has the small Thunderbolt Tree, most likely ICM, in RP05.
TR Card+Cold Boot+Thunderbolt Device plugged in to MOTHERBOARD TB3: Nothing populates under RP05, TR Card populates and RP12 and shows full tree.
TR Card+Cold Boot+Thunderbolt Device plugged in to GC-Titan Ridge TB3: Connects and acts as we have all been observing.
- Using all of the modified Z170X Designare firmwares from cold boot, Motherboard Onboard Alpine Ridge never showed anything populated under RP05 when a thunderbolt device was plugged in. That most likely means the mobo TB3 was dead. This is with NO TR card installed.
UPDATE:
When the Thunderbolt Header cable is plugged into the motherboard from the GC-TR card, it populates under RP05 not RP12, I wonder if to have both controllers seen at once on this board it has to be connected by the header cable.