Jamesbond007
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- May 21, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z390 Designare
- CPU
- i7-9700KF
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Here is what happened, I ordered the card I just assumed that it would work. I then installed booted to windows installed the TB software and shut down. Plugged the TB drive in turned the system on went into bios to check setting but no TB options. Let the system boot noticed the drive that was plugged into TR was showing in clover since it was a cloned drive I choose to boot from the drive. System booted without issue from the drive plugged into the TR. I was not able to archive Hotplug with Thunderbolt device before or after the bios update but for usb 3.1 devices with C plug work great. Also note that the card only works in the PCI-E x4 slot when I plug it into the x8 it does not work. I am not 100% sure the header even needs to be plugged in, there is a post somewhere about some guy with a Mac Pro 5,1 that I think has a titan ridge working in his system. I guess when my new CPU arrives I could test the card in z370HD3 that does not even have a header and see if I at least get it to connect the drive.
So let me understand : When the card was plugged in, before the F11 BIOS update there was no Thunderbolt options in the BIOS, but you were still able to boot MacOS from an external hard drive connected to the Titan Ridge, correct?
If that is true that means the card works to some extent even without the required BIOS update, which is contrary to what Gigabyte says, that the F11 BIOS update is required for the motherboard to work with the card.
The card works in the x4 slot but not the x8 slot, just what Gigabyte says.
And the card may even work partially without connecting the Thunderbolt header? More news.