Asus Z690 Tuf Gaming Wifi D4 - Titan Ridge 2.0

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Matt Kent · May 25, 2025

Hi All.

I have two Titan Ridge cards, one is a 1.0 the other a 2.0 both flashed, and verified working with my Apollo twin in my Aorus Pro X. The problem is, I am trying to install one of them in my friend's Asus Z690 Tuf Gaming Wifi D4. In the Aorus Pro X it works straight out of the box (with the usual thunderbolt settings in bios). No matter what I do, I can't seem to get this card working on the Tuf.

Does anyone out there, have this set up or a working SSDT (with GPI03 enabled - as its not possible to enable this in the Bios). We don't need hotplug.

Cheers, Matt

MaLd0n · May 25, 2025

Vt-d is enabled?

Matt Kent · May 26, 2025

Yes.

It's a Titan Ridge 1.0. I have a 2.0 Also. Neither will connect.

At the moment, the only way i can get the card to recognise is by booting into windows and then restarting into mac. But it is random and also, it consistently crashes the mac after about 1 second. I have managed to get it to connect about 5 times (in mac) doing it this way over the weekend, but it is very random and very unclear. Tried everthing... connecting pins 3&5, connected to SSDT-TB3.aml on RP09 (which is correct). In the final big PCI slot. Also tried in the smaller PCI slot. Not managed to get it to boot in mac on its own, once. I know definitely both cards are perfectly flashed as they A. work (randomly) and B. work perfectly in my Aorus Pro X which has a header (GPI0). Is this board supported for this?

is there anyone out there, on this board, with a working Titan Ridge 1.0 or 2.0?

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