Was curious if anyone else has encountered this? I’ve encountered the exact same behavior every time I have tried booting or rebooting the computer with a Thunderbolt 3 eGPU attached: Screen backlight comes on, one of the monitors attached to the eGPU also has the backlight come on, and then it ju…

Does the same issue occur if you plug directly into the laptop rather than through the dock?

I had some issues with my own egpu setup crashing, albeit after using it for a bit with a nvidia gpu, so my advice could be completely off, but, with your AMD card, is there an option (once you’ve connected it after booting) in a graphics control panel somewhere to set a power management mode to “pr…

Hi there. I’m testing this as well with my i7-1185g7 Framework. An Akitio Node with an RX590 8Gb in it is what I’m testing, as that is what is available at work. This is attached directly. I’d rather research this way before buying my own, although I’ve been wondering if the Razer Core X may be an …

Attaching photos for my test here [PXL_20210813_203509760] [PXL_20210813_203504457]

Thanks for the additional detail! Our first firmware update has some additional fixes around USB-PD, so it’s worth waiting for that before changing enclosure hardware.

Thanks nrp! My testing was from booting with the eGPU plugged into a monitor. When the dock was plugged only into the Framework, it seems I could only run games or programs with the DRI_PRIME=1 launch option configured, but even then I didn’t see a ton of performance out of games etc with it attache…

[image] nrp: Does the same issue occur if you plug directly into the laptop rather than through the dock? Yup I get the exact same behavior regardless of if it’s connected directly or with the dock in-between. If it’s potentially an issue with USB PD would it be worth it to try using an optic…

I see. I don’t think the optical cable would resolve it, but if you have one already on hand to try, worth checking. We do have a firmware update landing shortly, though most of the USB-PD changes are now deferred into the following update.

In further testing with Fedora 34, on kernel 5.13.12, with the newest mesa drivers available from their repositories, I can boot up while plugged into the CoolerMaster EG200 eGPU fine, and the RX590 8GB in there performs only 15% less than expected when running Unigine Heaven, Blender or Halo MCC. J…

Another update: I wrote an article on my eGPU setup here . Now utilizing an RX6600XT.

Fails to boot with Thunderbolt 3 eGPU attached

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Attaching photos for my test here

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Fails to boot with Thunderbolt 3 eGPU attached

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