Thunderbolt 3 Controller Software Is Already

Below is the error: A Thunderbolt controller has experienced a problem and cannot connect to devices or other computers until new firmware is installed.

Please contact PC manufacturer for a firmware update to restore full Thunderbolt functionality.

The latest available firmware is from 27 Dec 2018 (1.0.12.0-N1NTF20W).

Any idea how to make the docking station working as it used to work BR a.

The only functionality for it is to accept a firmware update.

Try for all versions.

Run appwiz.cpl from run box to uninstall the old versions.

Otherwise, for technical users, Linux makes firmware updating way easier, with no safeguards.

Hence, make sure that the bin file you have is definitely valid firmware for your exact device, otherwise you might brick the controller completely and have to solder wires to the motherboard to recover it (been there, done that).

You can install Ubuntu on a USB or something and make sure the kernel version is 4.14 or 4.13 I believe.

Please provide more information like the output of lspci -xxxx on Linux (or using PCI Utils for Windows as Administrator) if you have issues.

Thunderbolt 3 Controller Software Is Already

Uninstalling of Thunderbolt Software using appwiz.cpl is not possible - after finishing removing this software is already back, so installation of older version is not possible (even tried to do this simultaneously several times trying to get into the window between uninstallinstall.

Also tried to install the newest version from Intel website did not help.

Also tried to remove the driver with installed software (Device Manager System devices Thunderbolt Controller 15D2).

Then I removed the Thunderbolt software using the appwiz.cpl.

Looked like finally it is gone.

The Device Manager did not discover the Thunderbolt device anymore, and the software was also not installed anymore.

Then installed intelthunderbolt16.3.71.300 and got the same issue as initially described Installation of IntelThunderbolt17.4.79.510 also did not help Now I cannot remove this device anymore since it is always installing back by the system Further ideas Cheers, a.

Sometimes controllers can go to sleep - so to make it detectable, you might need to plug in a Thunderbolt device.

If you have never used it before then find somebody who has and boot off a Linux USB drive.

If you can get Linux running with a recent kernel version, it will look something like this: Either plug in a Thunderbolt device to wake the controller up, or do command in terminal: echo 1 sudo tee sysbuswmidevices 86CCFD48-205E-4A77-9C48-2021CBEDE341forcepower To update controller, do commands in terminal: sudo dd ifpathtothefirmwareupdatefile.bin ofsysbusthunderboltdevices0-0nvmnonactive0nvmem echo 1 sudo tee sysbusthunderboltdevices0-0nvmauthenticate But make sure the firmware file is definitely the one for your computer or else it will probably make things worse.

I went to C:FWWINThunderbolt and did run FwUpdateTool.exe The firmware was (re)updated, it took couple of minutes.

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Thunderbolt 3 Controller Drivers