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I regret buying a Core X Chroma (please help)

  • September 1, 2020
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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
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TL;DR: What is the proper way to set up and disconnect a Core X Chroma so that I don't fudge up the connectivity with the Core or the drivers because I'm getting some issues when I just plug it in and stuff.

I fixed it... the trick was to just not install any AMD drivers I guess. seems to be working as intended now.

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