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On the Alienware 15 R3, the supplied Lenovo drivers would crash repeatedly when I connected this eGPU. The other two failed due to various reasons. My only successful attempt was with the early 2018 Razer Blade Stealth. I tried pairing this dock with three different Thunderbolt 3 laptops. The all systems go green light is achieved when the unit can communicate with the Lenovo drivers and other mysterious requirements that I have yet to figure out. The yellow light comes on when the eGFX Dock connects to a Thunderbolt computer. When it’s first powered on by plugging in the external 170W AC adapter, the status light turns red. It operates very similar to traffic lights: Red, Yellow, and Green. The circular status light in front of the enclosure has three states. This link to the drivers was the first line of text on the Quick Start Guide prior to even Step 1. The prerequisite is a suite of drivers from Lenovo Support site. Out of more than a dozen external GPU enclosures I’ve used in the past year, none was as challenging as this Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Graphics Dock to pair with a host computer. The far right is a USB 3.0 port with constant charging suitable for connecting mobile phones (2.4AMP output). I had intermittent success with this using a Razer Blade Stealth. Lenovo also indicates this port allows you to wake up a sleeping computer in clamshell mode. On the far left is a USB 2.0 port that Lenovo recommends for use with a wireless keyboard and mouse. The three USB ports each serve different purposes. The Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Graphics Dock comes with version 26.1. The Thunderbolt firmware version is also easily accessible in macOS. There are some hardware options such as this Plugable USB-C Voltage and Amperage Meter.
#Lenovo thunderbolt add in card software
I’m not aware of a utility software in Windows to find this information.
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In order to verify Power Delivery from this enclosure, I connected it to the late 2016 15″ MacBook Pro because macOS shows this number under System Information » Power. The Nvidia GTX 1050 mobile chipset, N17P-G0-A1 sits right in the center. Close by this port are the crucial chipsets: TI83 USB-C controller, JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 controller, and Winbond EEPROM. A single Thunderbolt 3 port is located on right side of the enclosure. The power connector for the Lenovo proprietary AC adapter is in the rear as well. The rear has one Ethernet connector, one HDMI port, and two DisplayPorts. The audio jack is a headset and microphone combo connector. In the front of the enclosure, there are three USB-A ports. The TB3 main board also contains all I/O ports. Instead of a CPU soldered onboard, we have the GPU sitting in its place. This cooling fan, heatsink, copper pipes and fins make the board appear more like a laptop’s motherboard than one of an external GPU enclosure. With the bottom cover out of the way, the inner frame’s underside showed a neat arrangement of the Thunderbolt 3 main board and its cooling assembly. With the same putty knife, I patiently freed the plastic tabs one at a time. There are 6 plastic tabs holding these two components in place still. Removing these screws didn’t free the inner frame from the plastic bottom cover quite yet. Once this top cover came off, the eight concealed Phillips screws were accessible. It took me a while using a putty knife to cut through an abundance of adhesive. The top cover is sheet aluminum and glued to the entire surface of the inner frame. Taking this enclosure apart was a big challenge. Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Graphics Dock Components