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Ya, correct re the boards. I have too many and Gigabyte nomenclature is confusing. My board of interest is the Z390 Designare (the Z490 Vision D was the follow on and I have that too).Sure this is the right place. But note that Z390 Designare and Z490 Vision D are different boards.
For starters:
Since first read of the Intel Thunderbolt™ Networking Bridging and Routing Instructional White Paper 2014, my goal has been to provide an update based on the obvious changes in TB3 and the coming of TB4 (esp the TB4 Hub) as it pertains to Thunderbolt Networking. IMHO this is one of the most overlooked capabilities of TB3.
So my question:
In my 'Thunderbolt Networking' lab I used a TB4 Hub to see what I could get for TB3 Networking when connecting to TB3 ports on Win and MacOS but mostly Win (as I've noted failures in TB3 Networking via my M1Mini). To my surprise the one board that does not recognize (in Win) the TB4 Hub is the GB Z390 Designare. The firmware provided by GB is NVM33 only.
I can use the hub successfully to TB3 Network multiple Z390 boards via Titan Ridge NVM50. So the natural thought is the NVM33 is doing something the TB4 Hub doesn't like (or vice versa). BTW the Hub DOES like the Z490 Vision D.
So I'd like to upgrade the TB3 firmware on the Z390 Designare to NVM50 (which it appears you have done).
1. I've done firmware flashing before on stand alone EPROMS so I get flashing
2. I have not done it on a chip on the motherboard
3. Hence I would like to be pointed to step by step instructions with images to flash the Designare to NVM50.
4. Seems like it would also be a good idea to save the original firmware on the Designare (although I know that GB provides the software to flash it to NVM33)
I've done a bit of work re the Thunderbolt Networking project alluded to above. For me, one of the biggest features of TB3 is TB Networking (for fast peer to peer networking). I'd rather that Intel do it but you have to be an anointed Intel TB Developer to get to key docs and no one including Intel really discusses TB Networking. I won't get into details here unless the forum would like that knowledge from my own testing.
BTW, Win 10 at one point in time was the fly in the ointment for TB3 functionality. That seems to be be resolved/resolving with the Win Insider Dev releases quickly (again no one discusses it).
Thanks for the opportunity to post.
LF