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

[Olass]

The port you showed in the picture is a USB-C port, not a Thunderbolt port. The Aorus Pro does not have thunderbolt. You need an add-in card, such as the GC-Titan Ridge.

Others here more familiar with Apollo devices can tell you if an add-in card alone will work, or if it needs to be flashed with modified firmware.

thank you for replying

Really needs to buy a GC-Titan Ridge card

Or change my motherboard from Gigabyte Z390 Pro Wifi to Gigabyte Z390 Designare

Which is better, change motherboards from Pro to Designer or buy a Titan card
Is the all specifications of Motherboard z390 Designare better than z390 Pro wifi

attach image for z390 Designare thunderbolt 3

 

[Olass]

If I prefer to buy only a GC-Titan Ridge card does it need drivers for an EFI

could you pls Send me EFI file compatible with my motherboard and GC-Titan card

Thanks for helps

 

[CaseySJ]

yesterday I installed everything new.
In my old instalation i had same problem...And apps i think all of Mojave.

Ouch, okay. Try the Process of Elimination by first disconnecting all spinning (traditional) hard drives from all USB ports. Then check whether or not the remaining drives are ejected randomly.

 

[CaseySJ]

Anyone having networking issues on this build? Ive all of a sudden encountered strange issue.

-I use a Chelsin t4 10gbe NIC in a akitio node. It’s never been an issue. All of a sudden, connecting to SMB shares is consistently causing finder to freeze.

Additionally, I’ve got 4 freeNAS servers and 2 unraid servers. Ive never had issues connecting to the web UI of these servers, but randomly have the issues now. No issues connecting to websites, but issues on LAN. i can connect to one server web interface, of one of my freeNAS servers, one ui loads halfway, the other 2 won’t connect, and neither of the unraid UI will connect. Ive tried safari, chrome, Firefox, and min... same issue.

its not an issue with the thunderbolt NIC or LAN. If I plug the thunderbolt NIC into my MacBook Pro, it works without issue. No SMB issues, no issues connecting to the server web UI. Until last week, I had no SMB connection issues. Until this week, I had no issues connecting to the servers UI.

ive made zero changes.

any ideas? I don’t even know how to troubleshoot this one.

Couple of suggestions:

1. Boot from your bootable backup disk and see if the connection problem is still present. If the problem is not present, it means something most likely changed in the main macOS disk. But if the problem occurs with the backup disk as well, then perhaps something has changed on the NAS or the Ethernet switch. Are you using a managed or unmanaged switch/hub?

2. Check if anything has changed on the NAS systems. New firmware might have been auto-installed. Or SMB password or allowed-access-lists might have changed.

3. Check hub/switch configuration if it’s a managed switch.

 

[gandem]

Hi CaseSJ.
I’m going to take the plunge and try flashing my GC-Titan Ridge card using your Raspberry method. While I’m waiting for parts to arrive, is the Elias64Fr.bin file based on NVM 23 still the best option? I think I read there was a NVM 43 based mod, but it was not working quite as well. My card is currently running NVM 43 unchanged.

 

[qthegaijin]

Compared to your picture:
View attachment 459264
The second picture is from manual of X299 Sage/10g. The 3 is the "N_-SLP_S3" / "Platform Sequence Control" und the 5 is "GND" ?

This is how I have my Jumper in my GC-Titan Ridge card:

Hi CaseSJ.
I’m going to take the plunge and try flashing my GC-Titan Ridge card using your Raspberry method. While I’m waiting for parts to arrive, is the Elias64Fr.bin file based on NVM 23 still the best option? I think I read there was a NVM 43 based mod, but it was not working quite as well. My card is currently running NVM 43 unchanged.

I have only had luck with the current GC-TR NVM23 if that helps at all.

 

[LeSeChe]

Hello @LeSeChe,

The SSDT in each "Thunderbolt DROM Micro Guide" must be adapted to each person's motherboard.

• If the GC-Titan Ridge is in the middle long slot, it's in PCI0.PEG1. And we replace PXSX with PEGP.
• If it's in the bottom long slot, it's in PCI0.RP21. For this we don't replace PXSX.

If you need help, please post a screenshot of the first page of the SSDT. You will need two SSDTs. One for on-board Titan Ridge on RP05 and the other for GC-Titan Ridge on either PEG1 or RP21.

Hi @CaseySJ. Thanks for the fast response. That's an awesome tip, the GC Titan Ridge SSDT is working with the new edits. I noticed the correct UID/busID/information in the Thunderbolt Device Tree.

Spoiler: Thunderbolt Device Tree screenshot

Here's what's still not working after plugging both UltraFine 5Ks into the GC Titan Ridge:

• I can't control the display brightness in Settings > Displays or with the brightness keyboard shortcuts (F14/F15)
  • This was working with the onboard TB3 ports
  • My workaround is currently to use the open-source MonitorControl app to control the brightness using the menu bar instead
• The display speakers/microphone don't show up as audio devices (outputs) in Settings > Sound or the menu bar
  • This was working with the onboard TB3 ports
  • This isn't such a big deal, because I use external audio devices anyway, but I'll look into it out of curiosity/completeness

I'm going to do some more testing and see if I can find out anything

I am surprised that the brightness would work with the Designare but not the GC Titan Ridge. I have the USB 2.0 cable connected from the Titan Ridge to the motherboard (via the NZXT splitter, which also connects USB headers for my CPU cooler and the broadcom wifi/BT card). I'm not sure what to try besides unplugging that USB cable to see if it makes a difference, but I just assumed I needed that cable connected.

 

[CaseySJ]

@LeSeChe,

Those 4 ports you see in System Information —> Thunderbolt indicate a problem in ThunderboltDROM. I noticed this earlier, but haven’t concretely identified the specific byte or bytes.

However, please try the DROM below for GC-Titan Ridge. You may create a new UID from the first few bytes, but the rest of the DROM should not be altered.

Regarding the other issues listed, now you see why we say that the flashed firmware on Designare Z390 itself performs better than anything else so far!

                                "ThunderboltDROM",
                                Buffer (0x65)
                                {
                                    /* 0000 */  0x11, 0x02, 0x65, 0xBA, 0x7C, 0x7F, 0x59, 0x00,  // ..e.|.Y.
                                    /* 0008 */  0x00, 0x2D, 0xEA, 0x01, 0xBD, 0x01, 0x58, 0x00,  // .-....X.
                                    /* 0010 */  0x01, 0x00, 0x10, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x08, 0x81,  // ........
                                    /* 0018 */  0x82, 0x02, 0x82, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x08, 0x82,  // ........
                                    /* 0020 */  0x92, 0x01, 0x82, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x08, 0x83,  // ........
                                    /* 0028 */  0x82, 0x04, 0x82, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x08, 0x84,  // ........
                                    /* 0030 */  0x92, 0x03, 0x82, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x05, 0x85,  // ........
                                    /* 0038 */  0x09, 0x01, 0x00, 0x05, 0x86, 0x09, 0x01, 0x00,  // ........
                                    /* 0040 */  0x02, 0x87, 0x03, 0x88, 0x20, 0x03, 0x89, 0x80,  // .... ...
                                    /* 0048 */  0x02, 0xCA, 0x02, 0xCB, 0x0D, 0x01, 0x41, 0x70,  // ......Ap
                                    /* 0050 */  0x70, 0x6C, 0x65, 0x20, 0x49, 0x6E, 0x63, 0x2E,  // ple Inc.
                                    /* 0058 */  0x00, 0x0C, 0x02, 0x4D, 0x61, 0x63, 0x69, 0x6E,  // ...Macin
                                    /* 0060 */  0x74, 0x6F, 0x73, 0x68, 0x00                     // tosh.
                                },

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi CaseSJ.
I’m going to take the plunge and try flashing my GC-Titan Ridge card using your Raspberry method. While I’m waiting for parts to arrive, is the Elias64Fr.bin file based on NVM 23 still the best option? I think I read there was a NVM 43 based mod, but it was not working quite as well. My card is currently running NVM 43 unchanged.

Yes, I think NVM 23 is still the best option for GC-Titan Ridge. But work on NVM 43 is continuing...

 

[CaseySJ]

If I prefer to buy only a GC-Titan Ridge card does it need drivers for an EFI

could you pls Send me EFI file compatible with my motherboard and GC-Titan card

Thanks for helps

The GC-Titan Ridge does not need any drivers. It will only require a hot-plug SSDT to be saved in CLOVER/ACPI/patched. We can help you with this once you're ready.