Hello,
I've been having an issue with Thunderbolt on the Intel DZ87KLT-75K desktop board for a while with an Apple Thunderbolt Display.
As a Mac user primarily, I bought a PC for playing games and doing other Windows-stuff. For my Mac, I already had this display, so I chose a motherboard with Thunderbolt support. I also have a Western Digital Thunderbolt Duo storage device.
The Thunderbolt Display works great - as a display - but the additional ports (webcam, USB, FireWire, Ethernet) aren't working. The Windows device manager shows a "Base System Device" after booting with the Thunderbolt Display connected. After disconnecting and connecting the display again while booted, the Base System Device is gone. The Western Digital Thunderbolt harddisk isn't recognized at all - not when connected at boot time, and not when hot-plugged.
I'm using these parts:
- Intel DZ87KLT-75K motherboard (with thunderbolt display connected)
- Intel Core i7 4770K
- Windows 8.1 Pro (UEFI boot on GPT drive)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 (with no display connected), used trough Lucid Virtu MVP
- Apple Thunderbolt Display
- Western Digital Thunderbolt Duo 4TB
I have tried getting Thunderbolt to work in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 (all 64 bits) and had no success this far. After some Googling I found this on the MSI forums, but it doesn't look like I can find that option in Intel's Visual BIOS.
It would be great if someone could help me getting this to work. Any help is greatly appreciated.