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You'd have a hardware fault. The PE4C V3 red LED pointing to it or the cable to your mPCIe/EC slot is the culprit. Good time to contact BPlus and ask whether they can replace it.

@Morv, Setup 1.20 will be able to disable your dGPU OK. If you have any issues with it then pls PM me.

Suggest you get a refund for your EXP GDC as a faulty item and buy the superior PE4C V3.0 instead. It has a soldered cable which can provide more reliable Gen2 signalling. http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/PE4C V3.0.html

Yes. Intel would have had a lot of emails from product partners AKiTiO, Sonnet, ASUS, MSI, etc asking why these students with slick marketting are being allowed to reap eGPU/eGFX profits. Something they themselves were denied. Moreso when you consider Wolfe cooked up a product: an ABS plastic outer shell that matches the Apple design ethos, probably InXTron/AKiTiO internals, some software installer with percentage bar and an Apple-esque marketting video + kickstarter campaign. To their credit they acknowledged gathering ideas from the DIY eGPU community. The most obvious one was the use of a 220W Dell DA-2 AC adapter. @goalque needing to change his automated-eGPU.sh OSX script license to prevent it's plunder by Wolfe or BizonTech. Villagetronic also counted their Thunderbolt eGPU chickens way back in 2011 before being shutdown by Intel: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/01/external-thunderbolt-pci-expansion-chassis-and-hub-in-development/ I've explained how pluggable CUDA/OpenCL processing via eGPU would cannabalize Intel's core CPU market: https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/6399-why-are-intel-not-allowing-thunderbolt-egpus-ideas-inside/ . Intel's careful Thunderbolt product placement protecting their CPU market. In short, Intel has the last say on how it's Thunderbolt technology is to be used. Something the Wolfe team now know.

Use 2 AKiTiO boxes rather than the Amfeltec PCI backplane. This then places a video card below different TB bridges. Can use multi-GPU video cards like a Titan Z as shown by @nesone: https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/6741-2013-13-macbook-pro-2-x-titan_z16gbps-tb2-akitio-thunder2-osx1010-nesone/#comment-103971

Your startup.bat looks good. Does the eGPU work with an external LCD? If so, then it's a driver issue which will require: 1. Removal of all NVidia drivers 2. Installation of a recent NVidia driver along with mods to enable Optimus: https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/10305-guide-how-to-get-nvidia-optimus-work-in-win10/ If you are still seeing a BSOD when attempting to initialize the eGPU in windows then you may have a power issue, video card overclocked beyond ASIC capability, faulty video card or faulty eGPU adapter.

For Optimus to work, ensure the dGPU is disabled via Setup 1.30, your iGPU is detected and is the primary bootup GPU. For the BSOD issue, switch your eGPU hosting port to Gen1 PCIe speed via Setup 1.30 PCIe Ports->Gen1 menu. That's because the EXP GDC Beast has been found to have flakey Gen2 reliability.

From https://www.theitsage.com/thunderbolt-egpu-beefing-skinny-macs/

Pls have a look over https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/10028-14-lenovo-t430-gtx9704gbps-ec2-exp-gdc-v83-dual-boot-internal-lcd-mrdatamx/

Pls remove the following section, then save and re-try PCI compaction: ACPI\PNP0A08\0 Name: Complexo da Raiz de PCI Express Device is currently using the following resources: MEM : 000a0000-000bffff MEM : bfa00000-feafffff MEM : fed40000-fed44fff IO : 0000-0cf7 IO : 0d00-ffff

1. Your black bootup screen is due to the BIOS seeing the eGPU. To correct this, hide the eGPU from the bios using the eGPU adapter switches as discussed at https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/8947-mpcieec-egpu-troubleshooting-steps/ 2. Your PCI compaction with endpoint=56.25GB is fail probably because you have a non-English v:\config\devcon.txt file (run c:\eGPU\eGPU-setup-mount as admin to view) where the "PCI BUS" entry cannot be identified and skipped, but acts to exclude allocation. Pls remove the non-English PCI Bus section or PM me the file contents so I can identify what needs to be removed.

Hi F3 after each required menu in Setup 1.30 to add the equivalent command to your startup.bat. Then upon reboot, select the default Setup 1.30 -> automated startup via startup.bat for replay of the same command sequence.

Pls ensure you remove all existing NVidia drivers, the use "DDU" to remove NVidia registry entries as well as disable automatic driver installation and then install the latest Win10 GTX1060 driver. Check if there are any errors against the GTX1060 in Device Manager, eg: error 10, 12, 34.

EXP GDC has been noted to be problematic maintaining a reliable Gen2 signal. You've identified the solutions as either downgrading the signal to Gen1 or to use a PE4C V3 (with more reliable soldered cable).

From http://www.ultrabookreview.com/10761-razer-core-review/

Your Windows boot harddisk must be MBR for Setup 1.30 to chainload to it. Experimental attempts to boot UEFI have been unsuccessful. Pls refer to http://www.disk-partition.com/windows-10/convert-mbr-gpt-windows-10-0528.html for a conversion process.

INFO: First pics of a AKiTIO Thunder3 DIY eGPU @benjaminlsr presents the first eGPU build with a AKiTiO Thunder3 at https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/10280-intel-nuc6i7kyk-gtx106032gbps-tb3-akitio-thunder3/&do=findComment&comment=149495 quoted below. Thank you Looks to have the same chassis as the AKiTiO Thunder2 with some slight cosmetic differences and of course a TB3 internal board. I would expect the same AKiTiO Thunder2 power and chassis mods can be applied here.

Yes, to use the 56.25GB endpoint requires a DSDT override to be in place as the warning message advises you when you perform such PCI compaction.

Pls run c:\eGPU\uninstall-disk-image (as admin), then re-install DIY eGPU Setup 1.30. If you still cannot bootup Setup 1.30 then pls create a USB stick install (as per supplied instructions) and test it instead.

We've found Elitebooks typically require a DSDT override to be able to use AMD or GTX9xx/GTX10xx cards due to those requiring PCI apertures > 256MB. So first things first, do you have a 'large memory' Device Manager item in place indicative of the DSDT override working? Pls work through this thread to check: https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/5874-guide-dsdt-override-to-fix-error-12/ Second thing is your PCI compaction with endpoint=56.25GB above failed probably because you have a non-English v:\config\devcon.txt file (run c:\eGPU\eGPU-setup-mount as admin to view) where the "PCI BUS" entry cannot be identified and skipped, but acts to exclude allocation. Pls remove the non-English PCI Bus section or PM me the file contents so I can identify what needs to be removed.

Yes, you're PSU is insufficiently powerful to drive your GTX770. It has only 228W (12V) split across two rails. A GTX770 will use 220W combined. So even the total is just marginal but the bigger issue is your split power. Suggest use something like a Corsair VX450 which delivers 12V/33W (396W), plenty of power for your GTX770: https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-CMPSU-450VX-450-Watt-Certified-compatible/dp/B000UF28V4

The following link gives you access to 1.3 and 1.2:

rx470 does not provide an accelerated internal LCD. GTX960 does via the NVidia Optimus feature.

@aoe2exp, have you downgraded your eGPU port to run at Gen1 link speed using Setup 1.30? If so and the crashes continue then do note some users isolated the PSU from other devices(own power point, away from other electronics like fridges/stereos) to eliminate spikes in power delivery to the video card. Ensure you are also not using th EXP GDC USB port which can also cause power fluctuations. You may even consider obtaining a PE4C V3 instead of the EXP GDC with which I was able to run a more reliable Gen2 eGPU configuration.

Pls work through https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/8947-mpcieec-egpu-troubleshooting-steps/ in order to get eGPU detection. Once detected you can then perform PCI compaction in Setup 1.30. However, if the Dell E6400 bios is like a E4300 I used with TOLUD=3.5GB then indeed, I needed a DSDT override to get the iGPU + eGPU active. A variation you could attempt is an iGPU+eGPU 56.25GB PCI compaction where you force the eGPU to 32-bit space, if effect hijaaking the iGPU 32-bit space. What would happen there is then the iGPU would error 12 instead of the eGPU if the DSDT override wasn't in place.