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

[CaseySJ]

That's unfortunately. I think it will never get it fully work without Thunderbolt header cable. My mainboard is MSI B660M, and it has 16-pin connector instead 5 pin as Gigabyte.

Fortunately we don't need a Thunderbolt header cable! We can enable the GC-Titan Ridge by bridging the top and middle pins of the vertical J1 header using a breadboard connector such as this one:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EV70C78/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

For GC-Alpine-Ridge, I think a similar procedure can work but I don't have first-hand experience with that card.

 

[vinhnguyen1211]

Fortunately we don't need a Thunderbolt header cable! We can enable the GC-Titan Ridge by bridging the top and middle pins of the vertical J1 header using a breadboard connector such as this one:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EV70C78/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

For GC-Alpine-Ridge, I think a similar procedure can work but I don't have first-hand experience with that card.

Thank you CaseySJ!
I’m able to find this cable on some online shop, do you have a url/guide how to start with it?

 

[CaseySJ]

Thank you CaseySJ!
I’m able to find this cable on some online shop, do you have a url/guide how to start with it?

We can see from the manual that GC-Alpine Ridge also has a vertical 5-pin J1 header. So most likely it works the same way as GC-Titan Ridge. We will need one female/female breadboard (Dupont) cable to connect these two pins.

Please note that I make no guarantees. If you decide to purchase GC-Alpine Ridge and the breadboard cable, try to do so from a retailer that easily accepts returns.

 

[vinhnguyen1211]

We can see from the manual that GC-Alpine Ridge also has a vertical 5-pin J1 header. So most likely it works the same way as GC-Titan Ridge. We will need one female/female breadboard (Dupont) cable to connect these two pins.

View attachment 571945
Please note that I make no guarantees. If you decide to purchase GC-Alpine Ridge and the breadboard cable, try to do so from a retailer that easily accepts returns.

I have a dump question, is the procedure to plug female of breadboard cable to top pin and connect to middle pin?
Sorry for dump question because this is first time I've attempted to do this.

 

[CaseySJ]

I have a dump question, is the procedure to plug female of breadboard cable to top pin and connect to middle pin?
Sorry for dump question because this is first time I've attempted to do this.

Yes, that will connect the two pins and power on the card.

 

[joevt]

We can see from the manual that GC-Alpine Ridge also has a vertical 5-pin J1 header. So most likely it works the same way as GC-Titan Ridge. We will need one female/female breadboard (Dupont) cable to connect these two pins.

Please note that I make no guarantees. If you decide to purchase GC-Alpine Ridge and the breadboard cable, try to do so from a retailer that easily accepts returns.

The GC-Alpine Ridge might not have enough voltage on the middle pin. Use a volt meter to find out or get 3.3V from elsewhere. See #1,047

The GC-Alpine Ridge might not enable PCIe tunnelling by default which you may want to support the USB features of the display (audio, camera, brightness controller, USB ports). For my Mac Pro 2008, I needed some code in EFI to enable USB functionality from cold boot. You might get functionality by warm booting to macOS from Windows.

That's unfortunately. I think it will never get it fully work without Thunderbolt header cable. My mainboard is MSI B660M, and it has 16-pin connector instead 5 pin as Gigabyte.

Looks like you could connect the 5 pin from GC-ALPINE RIDGE to pins 1,3,5,7,9 of the Thunderbolt header on the MSI B660M motherboard since they seem to match the pins listed at #1,047. If the pin pitch is the same then you won't need an adapter (be careful of the orientation). I don't know if that would make the GC-ALPINE RIDGE work as well as a supported Thunderbolt add-in card or if it would melt your motherboard.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/what-thunderbolt-cards-for-mag-mortar-b660m-wifi.381208/
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/jbtb1-thunderbolt-header-compatability-question.324424/

 

[vinhnguyen1211]

We can see from the manual that GC-Alpine Ridge also has a vertical 5-pin J1 header. So most likely it works the same way as GC-Titan Ridge. We will need one female/female breadboard (Dupont) cable to connect these two pins.

View attachment 571945
Please note that I make no guarantees. If you decide to purchase GC-Alpine Ridge and the breadboard cable, try to do so from a retailer that easily accepts returns.

I just try and it isn't working as expected. (I was using Z490 Aorus pro AX) I've checked over Thunderbolt config in BIOS and Windows (using HWInfo, it usually appear under Bus) it isn't show up. I also tried to connect 5 pin of Alpine card to 4 pin of 5 pin (beardboard cable was too tight to plug all 5 pin) in motherboard, it wasn't detected either.

The GC-Alpine Ridge might not have enough voltage on the middle pin. Use a volt meter to find out or get 3.3V from elsewhere. See #1,047

The GC-Alpine Ridge might not enable PCIe tunnelling by default which you may want to support the USB features of the display (audio, camera, brightness controller, USB ports). For my Mac Pro 2008, I needed some code in EFI to enable USB functionality from cold boot. You might get functionality by warm booting to macOS from Windows.


Looks like you could connect the 5 pin from GC-ALPINE RIDGE to pins 1,3,5,7,9 of the Thunderbolt header on the MSI B660M motherboard since they seem to match the pins listed at #1,047. If the pin pitch is the same then you won't need an adapter (be careful of the orientation). I don't know if that would make the GC-ALPINE RIDGE work as well as a supported Thunderbolt add-in card or if it would melt your motherboard.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/what-thunderbolt-cards-for-mag-mortar-b660m-wifi.381208/
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/jbtb1-thunderbolt-header-compatability-question.324424/

do you have recommendation of pin 1,3,5,7,9 position?

 

[hamzab]

Hi @CaseySJ I hope you're well.

I'm on 13.3.1 and have spotted this weird issue over the last few days. I'm using dual monitors, and for some reason, either when the Mac is asleep, or it turns off the displays to save energy (but isn't yet asleep), sometimes when I move the mouse/press a key on the keyboard, the monitors will beep (to indicate they are coming back online), but then they will show "NO SIGNAL". After this, when the monitors switch off, when I press a key/move the mouse, they don't beep and the screens never come back on. Only restarting the Mac will help.

Any ideas on what I can do to fix? Thanks!

 

[rondark]

@CaseySJ
Dare we hope that Casey will do an instruction for dummies so that we can keep Wi-Fi and blue tooth for Sonoma on our Z390 Designare?

 

[etorix]

Dare we hope that Casey will do an instruction for dummies so that we can keep Wi-Fi and blue tooth for Sonoma on our Z390 Designare?

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