I regret buying a Core X Chroma (please help)

Long time member, first time poster.

My PC:

Model: Lenovo yoga 730 15-IKB

CPU: 8550U

GPU: Intel graphics

Thunderbolt: Yes (2 lanes PCIe)



My story:

Buy Core X Chroma

plug in without a GPU to admire RGB,

- select always allow TB3 x2

- synapse install when prompted

play with LED's

- #noregerts

Install friends GTX 1650 Super to test it (my RX580 was in the mail)

Install NVIDIA Drivers

works flawlessly

- Destiny 2 was played and much fun was had for an hour or so

I don't unplug anything and I turn off my PC

unplug everything and put his card back in his computer (it works fine)



***Tomorrow morning***



I start up my laptop and I stumble around trying to get the core X to recognize.

eventually I find that I have to manually open the TB3 software on my computer for it to recognize correctly.

Unplug TB3 to try and figure out what order I have to do things in and how this whole setup works in practice.

I uninstall Synapse and Nvida drivers and repeat to make sure everything still works and it does work the second time I plug in the Core without any drivers or synapse installed



***My RX580 arrives***



Clean drivers with DDU in safe mode

install RX580 in the Core

plug it in and it's recognized as a generic thing in Device manager after synapse and thunderboldt controller install themselves.

RX580 is now recognized in Device manager

I attempt to install MSI Afterburner drivers and it was going well but after an automatic restart I was back to the issue of the card not being recognized.



I would often get an error that said "Thunderbolt device functionality might be limited"

Does anyone know if there's a certain way I need to disconnect the core or if I need to start it up a certain way? I was under the impression that it was going to be relatively hot-swappable.



Can anyone educate me so that I can stop regretting my de