Adventures in bricking my computer

Pupp

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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.
 
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