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Hey Experts out there!
I've been having nothing but issues getting native USB 3.0 working on my configuration. I've read and followed lots of forum posts here and my built in USB 3.0 sometimes works. It is not listed in the System Information Report (but others have reported the same thing). I can connect a USB 3.0 Hard drive directly to the port and most of the time it will work but if I use a good known working USB 3.0 Hub it does not.
After lots of frustration with this I decided to purchase a USB 3.0 card from the buyers guide. (and I've actually purchased 2 different cards with the same results).
These are the two USB cards I've tried:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I027GPC/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C59TB0I/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
After disabling USB 3.0 in my UEFI Bios I've installed the new card with the same results. My system boots, get the Clover Config screen and I boot off my primary Sierra HD and the boot process continues. I then get a plain black screen with a cursor that I can move but cannot get any further. I can also remote into my desktop system from my MBA and I get the same black screen results.
My guess is that I may need (or need to remove) some KEXTs to make this work but am unsure which ones are needed (or not needed).
To confirm that either card is good, I've booted up off my Windows 10 HD and both cards are recognized perfect and work fine.
Sorry for such a long post but any experts out there have any advice before I ship these USB Cards back to Amazon and give up?
I've been having nothing but issues getting native USB 3.0 working on my configuration. I've read and followed lots of forum posts here and my built in USB 3.0 sometimes works. It is not listed in the System Information Report (but others have reported the same thing). I can connect a USB 3.0 Hard drive directly to the port and most of the time it will work but if I use a good known working USB 3.0 Hub it does not.
After lots of frustration with this I decided to purchase a USB 3.0 card from the buyers guide. (and I've actually purchased 2 different cards with the same results).
These are the two USB cards I've tried:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I027GPC/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C59TB0I/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
After disabling USB 3.0 in my UEFI Bios I've installed the new card with the same results. My system boots, get the Clover Config screen and I boot off my primary Sierra HD and the boot process continues. I then get a plain black screen with a cursor that I can move but cannot get any further. I can also remote into my desktop system from my MBA and I get the same black screen results.
My guess is that I may need (or need to remove) some KEXTs to make this work but am unsure which ones are needed (or not needed).
To confirm that either card is good, I've booted up off my Windows 10 HD and both cards are recognized perfect and work fine.
Sorry for such a long post but any experts out there have any advice before I ship these USB Cards back to Amazon and give up?
