I got a Alpine Ridge (rev. 2) Thunderbolt 3 card. The BIOS knows it exists, not a problem.
Getting my Windows 10 to show it under the Device Manager is another whole ballgame.
So I decided to randomly pick various BIOS settings under the Thunderbolt section, and eventually decided to enable "Boot by Thunderbolt", which pretty much bricked my computer.... I couldn't even get the Gigabyte splash screen to show, let alone get Windows 10 to load.
And literally, while I was trying to figure out how to unbrick the computer, a freaking lighting storm rolls into the area. (I can't make this up.) I did take the Thunderbolt card out as the last thing I did before throwing in the towel.
Oh, it was already past 10:30pm when this adventure started.
So I decided to call it a night and wait till this morning to reset by bios settings, using a screwdriver. So I got my computer running again, but I'll wait till after lunch to install the card again.
Adventures in the BIOS settings.
Getting my Windows 10 to show it under the Device Manager is another whole ballgame.
So I decided to randomly pick various BIOS settings under the Thunderbolt section, and eventually decided to enable "Boot by Thunderbolt", which pretty much bricked my computer.... I couldn't even get the Gigabyte splash screen to show, let alone get Windows 10 to load.
And literally, while I was trying to figure out how to unbrick the computer, a freaking lighting storm rolls into the area. (I can't make this up.) I did take the Thunderbolt card out as the last thing I did before throwing in the towel.
Oh, it was already past 10:30pm when this adventure started.
So I decided to call it a night and wait till this morning to reset by bios settings, using a screwdriver. So I got my computer running again, but I'll wait till after lunch to install the card again.
Adventures in the BIOS settings.