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Hi,
First of all, apologies for writing in English. One of your users (Crisser67 on Reddit) mentioned that you accept posts in English too.
I have a P51s (PN 20HBCTO1WW). I installed W11 on it, and noticed that my USB-C port was not working properly. I was unaware of the Thunderbolt debacle, and while I initially thought my TB NVM was fried, turs out I didn't had an SPI chip! (in case you are curious, I don't know how it happened, but I suspect it happened when I took my laptop to a shop to get the HDD ribbon socket re-soldered). As I can solder a SOIC8 chip, I got some SPI NOR flashes, flashed the FW myself and I got "somewhere": the laptop charges, I can connect USB devices to the port, but I got a Thunderbolt 3 Gen 2 dock and for the life of me, I can't make it work.
I connect it to my computer with a TB 4 cable (Amazon Basics TB4, labelled as 240W, 40Gbps capable) and it's powered with a 135W brick. The LED stays orange.
If I try to update the dock's FW, the update tool says it can't see the dock
Other than that, the Thunderbolt SW appears to detect the controller, although the device appears as "hidden" in my device manager.
I don't have any other Thunderbolt devices to try. I am suspecting it's the dock, as it doesn't work when I connect it to a Mac computer either, but does anyone have any idea of what might be going on?
Thanks!
First of all, apologies for writing in English. One of your users (Crisser67 on Reddit) mentioned that you accept posts in English too.
I have a P51s (PN 20HBCTO1WW). I installed W11 on it, and noticed that my USB-C port was not working properly. I was unaware of the Thunderbolt debacle, and while I initially thought my TB NVM was fried, turs out I didn't had an SPI chip! (in case you are curious, I don't know how it happened, but I suspect it happened when I took my laptop to a shop to get the HDD ribbon socket re-soldered). As I can solder a SOIC8 chip, I got some SPI NOR flashes, flashed the FW myself and I got "somewhere": the laptop charges, I can connect USB devices to the port, but I got a Thunderbolt 3 Gen 2 dock and for the life of me, I can't make it work.
I connect it to my computer with a TB 4 cable (Amazon Basics TB4, labelled as 240W, 40Gbps capable) and it's powered with a 135W brick. The LED stays orange.
If I try to update the dock's FW, the update tool says it can't see the dock
Other than that, the Thunderbolt SW appears to detect the controller, although the device appears as "hidden" in my device manager.
I don't have any other Thunderbolt devices to try. I am suspecting it's the dock, as it doesn't work when I connect it to a Mac computer either, but does anyone have any idea of what might be going on?
Thanks!
