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I have the gut feeling that the thunderbolt controller is immediately powered down after a device is connected. I even managed to boot Windows from external SSD connected to the USB C. Yes, the power management by the UEFI firmware when the device is connected before OS startup is right.
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The NVM firmware update package from Dell also turns on the controller, but I didn't manage to make it turn on/off my Alpine Ridge on demand, but now I don't have to! Hi u/Jeroki55, first of all, thank you for referring to the Spycheck tool! The SetupTbPowerMan app inside is really amazing! This is one reason I think why we should post anything that we deemed interesting on Reddit. maybe because its overwitten by the system again) (After sleep/ wakup the system it doesn’t work. But there was an option to 'overwrite the power management of the controller' (done by the SetupTbPowerMan.exe in the package -> Command line to run it: SetupTbPowerMan.exe -enable ) When I do this I can plugin and out every usb-c/ thunderbold device even without rebooting. The first time I started it, it couldn’t find a thunderbold controller. but this tool has some interesting feature in it.

purpose of this tool is to show if your thunderbolt is affected by a specific vulnerability. I did some experiments with the 'spychek' tool from. I have also observed the following behavior: (On my system, a Dell Precision 5520 ( Alpine Ridge 2C 2015 ), the controller is not listed in the DeviceManger until rebooting with a connected device) That’s why the devices always work in this case. When the device is connected while booting I think I read somewhere the power management is done fist by the UEFI/ BIOS and then handover to the operation system. I think it is something about the power management of the Thunderbolt controller.
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Last, but not least (in fact, this should be done first before performing the above steps!), ensure that this setting is set to off, so that Windows doesn't automatically download and install drivers: The can be easily obtained from an external Windows installation by running diskpart, and then typing the list vol command. Run dism /image:: /delete-driver /driver:oemXXX.inf /driver:oemXXY.inf (yes, the /driver:oemXXX.inf part can be repeated in a single command).If your drive is bitlocker-locked, unlock it by using manage-bde -unlock : -rp, and prepare your recovery password.
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To remove the drivers from an external Windows installation, do the following: Just press Shift + F10 there to open command prompt). To actually remove the driver, I highly suggest that you use an external Windows installation (a USB Windows recovery/installation drive will do. The listed drivers should have the name in the form of oemXXX.inf (where XXX are numeric), and the following columns should have the driver's category, manufacturer, and name. Of course removing the drivers require you to list the drivers first, and the easiest way to get this list is by running the following command: I was planning to clean up my Windows installation anyway, so I removed many of the drivers that was installed on my system.
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Removing the offending driver fixes the problem, and now my Thunderbolt port works seamlessly! I am not sure which one, but I can confirm that it is NOT one of these: Turns out that this problem was caused by a driver that was automatically installed by Windows Update. For example, your Thunderbolt or USB device connected thru the computer's USB C port might connect momentarily (around 1 to 2 seconds) then immediately disconnects.

#INTEL THUNDERBOLT CONTROLLER DRIVER WINDOWS 10#
Owners of Dell (or possibly any other laptop owners as well that has Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt 3 controller whose power is turned on/off on demand on device connect), as you might probably experienced, your Thunderbolt 3 doesn't work reliably since around Windows 10 version 2004 update.

