I am now working on adding the Alpine Ridge card to my system. I have installed windows and installed the Alpine ridge driver but it does not appear to be working.
I have added it in Slot-5 because I have previously set the Declink card to slot-4 @kpg suggests slot 4 but he has a different MB not sure how much that matters.
Unfortunately, Windows 10 does not seem to find I have installed the driver as shown below
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I did not install the BMD 8K card driver yet so that is probably the Multimedia video controller. Properties says it is in slot 4 which is it. Other devices Network controller says it slot 6 but the Alpine ridge is in slot-5 and nothing is in slot-6. Not sure what card this is referring to.
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I so appreciate your help with the .AML patches but I think I need to go back and figure out how to create these or edit them to account for changing the position of the cards in the system.
I need to study this :
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...ojave-successful-build-extended-guide.255082/
but I have much to learn before I can even attempt to make my own .AML . Should I move the Apine ridge to slot-4 & the decklink to slot-5?
Your board has several PCIe, the grey coloured ones are the main X16 PCIe -where you should place your TB card and try how it works-, If you try with a GFX card, for instance, and you place it on a black coloured PCIe, you'll see how the bus speed drops to X8.
So you'll need to adopt SSDT to your selected PCIe or just run with where
@kgp SSDT PCIe locaiton.
Do remove drivers as picture shown in post, turn off the computer, remove TB card, boot back in WS, turn off, place the card back in and boot to WS again. Try and install drivers then and check.
There is something unusual which I have tested with over 10+ Titan Ridge, Alpine Ridge and Asus ThunderboltEX 3 cards,
@kgp might disagree with me, but thats just what I have found.
If you open the thunderbolt utility under Windows 10 while you have the card installed, and connect a TB device, the utility will show the device, if you select the device, a box appears under which gives you some limited information about the device, well, there is a button, marked in blue, which will let you open a dialog where you can select when the system will connect to your device. everything ok till here.
Apparently some cards are build differently than others, I'm still trying to figure out what makes them tick. The cards that have TB Hot Plug functionality ARE MISSING THE ABOVE STATED blue selectable text button! I have achieved HP on Asus ThunderboltEX 3 cards with header connected to MB, only on very little few, same goes for TR and AR..
I have even desoldered the windbond chip from a working EX3 card and soldered onto a non working EX3 card with no luck, so my tests tell me that some cards simply work, some simply wont ever due to some manufacturing processes that differentiate them, chips, coils, chips.. Who knows
I wrote to Gigabyte about the problem -did so too to Asus, but never received an answer-, and their answer was that Titan Ridge is not compatible with X299... Ridiculous... -I'm still in talks with them-
