Thunderbolt Driver ?

[MrLowndes]

Hey, has anyone tried booting windows, initializing the thunderbolt card, then doing a fresh macOS install? Would the installer look for the TB card and accommodate it?

 

[Slickademo]

Hey, has anyone tried booting windows, initializing the thunderbolt card, then doing a fresh macOS install? Would the installer look for the TB card and accommodate it?

I was thinking about doing a windows 10 install. Might try it out. I'll be switching from my z370 gaming 7 with Alpine Ridge card to a z390 Designare soon most likely... Either way my Apogee Element seems to work just fine.

 

[MrLowndes]

I was thinking about doing a windows 10 install. Might try it out. I'll be switching from my z370 gaming 7 with Alpine Ridge card to a z390 Designare soon most likely... Either way my Apogee Element seems to work just fine.

Let me know how it goes. What's your current situation with Thunderbolt?

 

[Slickademo]

Let me know how it goes. What's your current situation with Thunderbolt?

Current situation is, it works lol.

 

[MrLowndes]

Current situation is, it works lol.

With hotswap? Would love to know how you did it. Any chance you could share your SSDT files? What version is your bios flashed to?

 

[Slickademo]

With hotswap? Would love to know how you did it. Any chance you could share your SSDT files? What version is your bios flashed to?

I think I'm currently on F10. All you need to do is enable it in the bios. There's nothing special required. I only use my audio interface so I don't know anything about hot swapping etc.

 

[MrLowndes]

I think I'm currently on F10. All you need to do is enable it in the bios. There's nothing special required. I only use my audio interface so I don't know anything about hot swapping etc.

Ok thanks

 

[jiffyslot]

FWIW, there will be times that if you flash the BIOS with the TB card removed (to avoid killing it) the new BIOS will cause a need to reinitialize the TB card and its devices via Windows 10.

 

[jiffyslot]

Ok thanks

Just mind the BIOS version that supports your card. I think you can get away with F6 on your board with Alpine Ridge, but Titan Ridge didn't get supported until F10 or F11 -something like that. I'm using a modified F13.

 

[MrLowndes]

Just mind the BIOS version that supports your card. I think you can get away with F6 on your board with Alpine Ridge, but Titan Ridge didn't get supported until F10 or F11 -something like that. I'm using a modified F13.

Ok thanks, yeah I'm on F7 and Alpine ridge. I have hotplug working on one port using SSDT-X299-TB3HP.aml from @kgp with a modification for the Z370. See screenshots below. Not sure if this made a difference but, before flashing to F7, I flashed to F10, then loaded Windows and initialized the card. I saw on the webpage for the card, GIGABYTE listed F10 needed for full compatability with Windows and I wasn't getting hotplug with F7 and Windows. I then Flashed back to F7 (without removing Alpine ridge card), loaded Mojave, loaded kgp's SSDT, and I had hotplug working on one port. When kgp's profile says retired, does that mean from his career, or from posting on here?