Hi! I got a TH3P4Lite from a friend and I can’t get it to work properly. It doesn’t have a power connector other than the 12V barrel plug, so I know it can only run GPUs without a PCIe power connector. He also gave me a 1650 with it. When I plug it in to my Framework laptop 13 7040 series with the PD port on the egpu, it powers on for about 15s then power cycles and never gets recognized by windows. For the non-PD port, it just power cycles every second and I constantly hear the Windows connect/disconnect sound. For testing, I also tried my 2060 founders edition. In the PD port, it somewhat works. It gets recognized and I can install Nvidia drivers, but doesn’t work properly since the 2060 requires an 8-pin PCIe connector. In the non-PD port it just freaks out and power cycles every second. Anyone have any ideas on what’s going on? I’m also using a USB4 cable and a 120W power supply
Guessing this is an external graphics adapter? It needs to have its own source of power, and the video card appearing and not is an indication of something is starved for power. It tries, then resets itself.
Look up the manual for this adapter and see what it says about configurations and necessary power.
The 2K series NVidia card for sure needs external power because the PCIe can not supply enough to operate properly. The fact it comes up at all without the 8pin power connected is amazing.
Lots of these setups are not as plug and play as they are marketed to be. Especially with Framework devices.
It is an eGPU adapter yes. There really aren’t any manuals for it unfortunately. At least none that I can find. All I’ve found is the more robust version that has a PCIe power connector on the board to communicate with a power supply, which mine doesn’t have. The 1650 doesn’t have an 8pin connector either. I’ve also read that it’s recommended to have a 12v power supply with a minimum of 100W, which I have a 120W. I definitely agree that they aren’t that as plug and play as they seem. And yes I was shocked that it showed up too. I also tried my 3060 but that didn’t work at all. I’m not even gonna attempt to use my 7900 xtx lol.
You did plug in power to both the gpu and the th3p4 board? Do you have any other pcie cards to test other than the gpu, something lower power like a network card or or something would be helpful for throubleshooting.
I do have the non lite version and that work fine with any pcie device I tried with it.
It does not have a pcie connector on it, but I will have to find my pcie capture card and test that out!
Update: After testing numerous PCIE cards that don’t require external power (Wifi card, Elgato, USB-C card), none of them worked. So either all of them have some random problem or the adapter is broken. I believe it’s the latter lol. Thanks to everyone who responded!