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Recent content by electrorocket

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    GUIDE How to Flash Custom Firmware on Thunderbolt Card for macOS

    Does anyone have the original firmware .bin file from a Gigabyte Alpine Ridge v1.0 AiC? I am gettin an error code 31 now, and think the firmware is corrupted. I want to make sure it's working properly in Windows before I flash it for MacOS. I did have it working on a hackintosh build, but since...
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    GUIDE How to Enable Thunderbolt 3 Hotplug on macOS

    I have the Thunderbolt driver and Firmware tool installed from the gigabyte alpine ridge page. The Thunderbolt Firmware updater gives me the error "Open driver handle failure!!" when I run it in admin mode, and hitting OK, just pops it back up again. I have to force quit in task manager.
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    GUIDE How to Enable Thunderbolt 3 Hotplug on macOS

    Yeah, It's definitely the Windows UEFI, I even unplugged all my other drives, and it was a brand new NVMe drive before I installed Windows on it.
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    GUIDE How to Enable Thunderbolt 3 Hotplug on macOS

    They are definitely in the BIOS. I set it to Enable, 0 Security. I've tried the Wake PCI and Boot options both ways.
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    GUIDE How to Enable Thunderbolt 3 Hotplug on macOS

    Hi, thanks for the quick reply! I never altered the firmware, I believe that can only be done with an SPI flasher, and I don't have one. My Ventura build wouldn't boot. I spent a couple days trying to get it running again. I even got a new install running fine with my clover bootloader, but it...
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    GUIDE How to Enable Thunderbolt 3 Hotplug on macOS

    Does anything in this guide alter the card itself in any way? I never changed the firmware itself. So I followed this guide pretty successfully, but upgraded my CPU and now it won't boot. I will have to try to create a new bootloader, but in the meantime I created a new Windows installation...