High Sierra THUNDERBOLT 3 Success! GA-Z170X-UD5 TH & Startech "Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt adapter"

[papillon12]

THIS IS AN UPDATE FROM AN OLD POST I CREATED A WHILE BACK​

HIGH Sierra UPGRADE!_THUNDERBOLT 3 SUCCESS!! with GA-Z170X-UD5 TH STARTECH "Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt adapter" and the Universal Audio APOLLO 8 - El Capitan 10.11.6 iMac 17,1

NOW ON
HIGH SIERRA 10.13.6 iMac 17,1 Bios F5 (i didnt update firmware)​

1) Booted into my windows 10 hard drive and updated bios to F5 at the time of this writing (if on OS X change Bios for Windows usage) and (see Tonymac for bios update guides).

2) Once in windows, I plugged in the Startech adapter and turned on the Apollo. Then i went to gigabyte site (Link Below) selected the "Download Type" dropdown and chose Driver. In choose OS, I chose mine which is windows 10 64bit (see screen shot for easier reference). I downloaded it and ran it.

3) Next I went to the dropdown again and downloaded the Utility and in OS type chose "ALL" (See screen shot for reference) the Utility actually gives you the instructions on the order to do it all for windows so follow it. After installing the utility I don't remember if I re started but I do remember I checked if it picked up my Apollo within Device manager and it did. (I left the Apollo ON just forgot to turn it off)


Heres Giga Link:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5479#driver


4) I then shutdown and REMOVED my windows hard drive (it was only used for thunderbolt driver and firmware update)

5) Next I rebooted and went into bios changed back my Bios settings for OS X Usage 10.11.6

6) Once in OSX I opened UAD meter control panel to see if the Apollo was picked up but it wasn't. (I left the window open, just forgot to close it)

7) Next, I turned on hidden files. I opened terminal (app, utility, terminal) and I pasted this command inside terminal

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES (then press ENTER) Next hold down Alt key Right click Finder Icon and click relaunch.

----- I DIDNT HAVE TO DO THE ABOVE AS IT WAS A WORKING SYSTEM ALREADY-----​

8) I went to GO -> Computer -> My hard drive -> System/Library/Extensions (I had to open all in new tab double click didn't work) looked for all kext that said AppleThunderbolt (made a back up folder on desktop just incase) and I deleted them all I rebooted into BIOS. (I didn’t close Apollo app)


9) Next go to: Bios

Peripherals -> Intel(R) Thunderbolt ->
Intel Thunderbolt Technology = Enabled
ThunderBolt Boot Support = Disabled

**Security Level = LEGACY!! (THIS IS THE ONLY CHANGE from original post)!!

Thunderbolt PCIe Cache-line Size = Change to 128
Ignore Thunderbolt Option Rom = Disabled
Thunderbolt SwSMI Delay = Change to 10 (with+sign)
TBT Device IO resource Support = Enabled
Reserved Memory = Medium
Reserved Mem per phd slot = 32
Reserved Poem per phi slot = 32

** Don't ask me how I figured these numbers out, its been a long time and I totally forgot lol...

10) I rebooted with everything installed and turned ON including the UAD Meter Control Panel window which detects the Apollo it was open on desktop.

The system picked up the Apollo 8 instantly once rebooted (Not sure if leaving everything connected and running makes a difference it was just coincidently ON from prior attempts)


*NOTE - I lost audio drivers after I rebooted but simply ran multibeast and selected only my audio drivers rebooted again and I'm back in business! This was fixed with the voodooHDA-2.9.0d10 within multibeast.


Hope this helps you guys!!

9/17/2018 UPDATE:

I decided to upgrade my system to High Sierra ("Fresh Install" same system and "same bios firmware the F5") and the only thing I had to change on the Thunderbolt section in Bios was ** Security Level. I added the Legacy instead and it picked up my Apollo 8 instantly!!

I started the install with System definition at 14,2 then after High Sierra install I changed system definitions to 17,1 and altered my bios as stated above. Not sure if it makes a difference but it worked. just trying to give details.
Just a heads up, this "Particular" board doesn't need TB scripts. So dont go crazy trying to look for one. Just trying to save you some time.

Hope this helps once again guys!!

 

[kgp]

Everyone is breaking there heads with thunderbolt 3 writing scripts this is all I did and it worked!!

Does TB hotplug and TB XHC USB hotplug work in your case? Do you have a TB local node? If not please avoid such conclusions...

All the best,

KGP

 

[papillon12]

Does TB hotplug and TB XHC USB hotplug work in your case? Do you have a TB local node? If not please avoid such conclusions...

All the best,

KGP

Wow it was a simple comment towards my build relax! I didn't mean to offend you. I'll erase it the comment just for you. Smh.... incredible, makes me feel like not even helping.

 

[papillon12]

Does TB hotplug and TB XHC USB hotplug work in your case? Do you have a TB local node? If not please avoid such conclusions...

All the best,

KGP

There you go, it's deleted hope u feel better now. Smh..

 

[kgp]

Wow it was a simple comment towards my build relax! I didn't mean to offend you. I'll erase it the comment just for you. Smh.... incredible, makes me feel like not even helping.

There you go, it's deleted hope u feel better now. Smh..

It was a simple comment from my side. I did not feel offended, neither it was my intention to offend you. You should not erase the comment just for me. There is simple reason why people commit efforts in writing TB3 scripts, that's all..

Nothing for bad, man

Cheers,

KGP

 

[Laszlo]

@papillon12 : Just to make sure before I do anything irreversible, a few checks...
Currently on my system in Windows everything works as intended: hot plug-in (switch on/off of Apollo 8), UAD software recognizes all periferals. This tells me that the hardware is OK.

IOReg sees the Thunderbolt EX3 controller, but OSX does not do anything with it (see screen capture below). This tells me that the OSX settings are not.

If I delete (with backup) the Apple Thunderbolt kext files, what will change? How can I confirm that these kext files are getting in the way of recognizing the Apollo interface (e.g., in Clover or boot log file or...)

?

 

[papillon12]

@papillon12 : Just to make sure before I do anything irreversible, a few checks...
Currently on my system in Windows everything works as intended: hot plug-in (switch on/off of Apollo 8), UAD software recognizes all periferals. This tells me that the hardware is OK.

IOReg sees the Thunderbolt EX3 controller, but OSX does not do anything with it (see screen capture below). This tells me that the OSX settings are not.

If I delete (with backup) the Apple Thunderbolt kext files, what will change? How can I confirm that these kext files are getting in the way of recognizing the Apollo interface (e.g., in Clover or boot log file or...)View attachment 352217 ?

Don't delete them if ur uncertain just put them in another folder in your desktop. Then restart ur system with the Apollo unit on

 

[Laszlo]

Don't delete them if ur uncertain just put them in another folder in your desktop. Then restart ur system with the Apollo unit on

Before removing, my last question: if the restart does not make any difference, can I just place the kext files back to S/L/E or do I have to reinstall them?

 

[papillon12]

Before removing, my last question: if the restart does not make any difference, can I just place the kext files back to S/L/E or do I have to reinstall them?

Just put them back in.

 

[papillon12]

Hey! Have you tried this on mojave? I have the UAD-2 but no windows hard drive becasue it crashed and couldnt enter anymore! So delete it and installed mojave instead! But now my UAD-2 doesn't work awwwwwwww

Not yet, but I'm sure it'll work it's worked on every software change from a few years back. Just back up everything. Try it you have nothing to loose. Just keep in mind to always turn on ur uad Unit before turning on computer or it won't recognize it.