Z690 Chipset Motherboards and Alder Lake CPU

OptimaLemon said:

Hi All -
Question for any Owers of Asus rog strix z690-I gaming wifi mobo.

When I am installing the M.2 SSDs on each daughterboard, they bend when tightening the screws in place. When I look at it, the thermal pad does not make contact evenly across the M.2. It only makes contact with the chips on the end nears the latch. However, on the other end near the connectors there is no contact. As a result, it is bending when applying pressure.

Did anyone else run into this issue? I imagine it’s not just specific to this board?

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Leesureone said:

Hello @OptimaLemon, I saw that to a minor extent, nothing I was concerned with though. Hopefully the little pivoting plastic retaining fastener on the butt end of the ssd is secured properly. I would venture it does seem to be a characteristic of this board, not otherwise widely reported. If I remember correctly there was a review on NewEgg that mentioned the same thing and had pictures of the ssd bending.

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OptimaLemon said:

Hi Leesureone,
Hmm, okay. I guess I’m not entirely sure if the bend is slight or significant. Aside from the m2 integrity I am using a noctua nh-u12a so once that’s installed it’s a bit of pain to have to reseat the drives.

On the Asus forums I saw some issues regarding the m2.2 drive not being recognized and I think at one point it was thought to be a related issue with the bending of the m2; causing a bad connection. Did you encounter something similar?

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Leesureone said:

No, both drives were recognized at first boot and to double down I've used the same board twice and never had an issue.

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gandem said:

Take a look at this post. At the bottom under updates- "Change prev-lang:kbd in NVRAM section to type DATA"
This might be what you're experiencing.

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Leesureone said:

@CaseySJ I'm hoping you can lend me your expertise again and help me sort out Thunderbolt in a different configuration than posted in my signature. I'm back to using an Asus Rog Strix Z690 G Gaming Mini ATX board with a flashed Gigabyte Titan Ridge 2 Thunderbolt card. Thunderbolt works, the Thunderbolt hard drives I have show after a cold and warm boot, but hot plugging doesn't. The card actually works that way with Thunderbolt turned on or off in the BIOS, with it turned out there is a significant delay booting.
I'm attaching the DSDT from Hackintool with Thunderbolt turned off and a screen shot of IORegistryExplorer showing the card and a copy of the SSDT I modified for RP25. The Titan Ridge card works perfectly on another board, hot plugging included.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance

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• SSDT-DTPG.aml is missing from EFI/OC/ACPI and/or unchecked in config.plist --> ACPI --> Add
• SSDT-TB3-HackinDROM.aml is not enabled in config.plist --> ACPI --> Add

CaseySJ said:

The IORegistry screenshot indicates that the Thunderbolt SSDT is not being injected. This could happen if:

• SSDT-DTPG.aml is missing from EFI/OC/ACPI and/or unchecked in config.plist --> ACPI --> Add
• SSDT-TB3-HackinDROM.aml is not enabled in config.plist --> ACPI --> Add

Because of this, hot plug will not be available.

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Leesureone said:

Thanks for the quick reply, I swear those are enabled but if they aren’t I deserve the dumda** award. Wondering if having the Thunderbolt option in the BIOS is the reason. I’m on my phone and away from the computer until later and will follow up. Many thanks!

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