Hello,
First of all, I’m new here so thank you for having me !
I bought an Intel NUC (NUC10i5FNK3) to use with my Aorus 3080 external GPU, which is currently hooked up to my HP laptop via Thunderbolt.
I have been trying for quite a bit to get these 2 working, but no matter what I try the external GPU is almost instantly disconnected from the nvidia container when the display HDMI cable is plugged into the NUC, and when I plug the HDMI cable into the Aorus box, the whole PC freezes after a few seconds, requiring a restart.
The following things have been tried to no avail:
- Updating the NUC BIOS and drivers (Thunderbolt, Intel integrated graphics, nVidia, chipset, I/O etc.)
- Windows updates up to date
- Tried both legacy and current Thunderbolt drivers
- NUC is in High Performance mode
- Tried disabling the various sleep options in the BIOS
- Disabled virtualisation
- Undervolted the CPU
- Different Thunderbolt cables
- Different HDMI cables
- Different displays
- Re-installing Windows
- DDU with internet switched off, re-installing drivers manually
- Installed drivers via Windows update only
- Made sure Thunderbolt is the preferred display output
- Booting from Thunderbolt option enabled / disabled
- Plugging in with NUC turned off / turned on
- Unplugging Thunderbolt cable right after freeze, plugging back in
The NUC is paired with a Toshiba NVME SSD and 8GB DDR4 RAM. On its own, it works perfectly and I have encountered no freezes or crashes, or any issues with it. The eGPU box is also working fine, when it’s hooked up to my laptop it is recognised straight away and I have had no crashes.
The laptop however does already have a dedicated 1650ti graphics card, could that be why the process is so much easier there ?
Would appreciate any suggestions on how I might be able to fix this issue.
Thanks a lot !