Asus Z590i Gaming Wifi w/ Thunderbolt 4 Hot Plug - i7-11700K Rocket Lake - 6800 XT

[Leesureone]

Thanks. What is your setting for "Native OS security for TBT"?

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[SchmockLord19]

@Leesureone @CaseySJ

Maybe I wasn't lucky with the Asus Z590i Gaming Wifi. But I wasn't able to get Thunderbolt working properly.

I was once able to Hotplug my TB-SSD. And then macOS crashed. And since then I couldn't get it working again.

And I could never get my Razer Core X with the W5500 running. So macOS was only booting in the mode where the CPU is generating the graphics.

Even in Windows it doesn't get detected.

And I tried everything. Several BIOS versions, Enable/Disable Native OS Security, Enable/Disable Force GPIO Power, Enable/Disable the TB-SSDTS, different TB-SSDTs...nothing worked.

Even in Windows with the Windows Boot Manager I have TB-issues now. My TB-SSD is not detected anymore.

So I will switch back to my Z590i Vision D tomorrow. At least Thunderbolt was working when the devices where plugged in before turning on the PC. Even daisy chaining TB devices and attaching the eGPU behind my OWC TB4-Dock worked. The only caveat with the Vision D is, that you don't have Hotplug. But at least TB is working with all my TB devices (TB SSD, OWC TB4 Dock and Razer Core X eGPU Case).

Best,
Chris

 

[Leesureone]

That's got to be disappointing, Thunderbolt always worked for me on cold boot with devices plugged in. It was just getting hot plug working that was the fight.

 

[SchmockLord19]

Can you maybe share screenshots of all your BIOS pages? Especially subpages in the Thunderbolt settings. That would be very nice. Maybe it is something in there. But I think I kind of grilled the TB controller. Because it is stuck in „no security“ mode when I open the Windows Thunderbolt settings.

 

[Leesureone]

Can you maybe share screenshots of all your BIOS pages? Especially subpages in the Thunderbolt settings. That would be very nice. Maybe it is something in there. But I think I kind of grilled the TB controller. Because it is stuck in „no security“ mode when I open the Windows Thunderbolt settings.

Of course, here are several but most settings are typical and I'm sure you are familiar with them.

 

[Leesureone]

Can you maybe share screenshots of all your BIOS pages? Especially subpages in the Thunderbolt settings. That would be very nice. Maybe it is something in there. But I think I kind of grilled the TB controller. Because it is stuck in „no security“ mode when I open the Windows Thunderbolt settings.

I had issues on an MSI board that Thunderbolt would drop out after doing updates and could not figure out why, turned out resetting the NVRAM was the issue.

 

[SchmockLord19]

Thanks for the screenshots . Appreciate your help.

How did you resolve the NVRAM reset issue?

 

[Leesureone]

Thanks for the screenshots . Appreciate your help.

How did you resolve the NVRAM reset issue?

I just meant to get Thunderbolt back up and running on either OS it took an NVRAM reset. I don’t remember having that be an issue with this board, just throwing it out there

 

[Leesureone]

Thanks for the screenshots . Appreciate your help.

How did you resolve the NVRAM reset issue?

Just confirming you are using the port closest to the wifi antenna connectors and not the USBc port???

 

[SchmockLord19]

Yes. But I have to admit, at first I was thinking both USBC are Thunderbolt. Because I was also thinking about buying the Z690 version of it, which has two Thunderbolts.