hp Thunderbolt3 Card

[huxiao3d]

can anybody provide me the pinout for the internal GPIO cable 751366-001 for the HP Thunderbolt3 F3F43AA that connect the GPIO connector (9pin) with the mainboard connector (5pin)?

I would make it by the cables 751363-001 or 751364-001 I found in the box of the card.

For that I need the pinout

Thank you all very much

[DGroves]

first of all if you had used the forums "SEARCH" feature you would have found the several posts i had made on this subject and posts by other persons

next stating WHICH HP system this is being used in is also a big help as most people have no idea which part number matches which system

[huxiao3d]

Thank you for your reply

I may have searched wrong

I need to connect the HP Thunderbolt3 (9pin) to the Gigabyte motherboard (5pin), like in the picture

[SDH]

Our friend DGroves knows this all better than anyone I can think of.  He has asked you to search the forum, and our forum search feature honestly is what I'd call pretty anemic.  You can also search and find posts it misses via Google.

For example, search for HP thunderbolt pinout.  Filter in google for all and also images.  Then read up on these things and ask informed questions.  And, what exactly is your workstation?  Is it running on the latest BIOS?   EDIT:  You seem to indicate you're not even planning to use a HP workstation for that HP card... good luck with that.

Here is a peek at google results... some of the cable pinouts are different depending on what generation of workstation you have.  I personally have never worked with one of these:

[huxiao3d]

Thanks for your reply, found one, I'm so stupid, they don't seem to have the same 1pin, I'm a little confused

[SDH · Accepted solution]

Lets see now...

You cut off the bottom of the pinout diagram, which is for a HP Z440 motherboard by the handwriting...

There is more than one type of HP Thunderbolt card...

These cards are custom engineered by HP to fit only a few specific HP workstations...

There are HP interface cables that were custom engineered by HP to fit between a specific HP card to a specific HP workstation... those cables are quite different and are not meant to interface with other OEM motherboards...

The approved workstations were custom engineered by HP...  HP has reverse engineered their motherboard traces to allow post-production add-in of specific cards that did not exist when the motherboard was engineered originally.  Very creative custom work...

The BIOS for those several approved HP workstations were custom upgraded by HP to work with the HP Thunderbolt cards, and generally there is a specific BIOS upgrade for the HP-approved motherboards that allows the HP thunderbolt card to work...

And, you want to take this HP Thunderbolt card and make it work on a Gigabyte motherboard...

Respectfully, good luck with that.  If you can pull this off then you are a computer genius, and please post back on how you did that.

[DGroves]

for "SDH"

only the HP z620/820 workstations had thunderbolt added AFTER the motherboard was finalized, as such HP could not respin it to have a normal TBolt header, as such they came up with a kludge, which is why the card will only work in a specific slot and we have the wonky dual usb to TBolt card header

the z220 motherboard/system as i recall was released a bit later, and as i recall does not use the woky usb to TBolt cable but a std 5 wire connection from the card to the motherboards 5 pin TBolt header  (but i may be wrong on this as i've never used a z220)

the HP TBolt 2 card is a REFERENCE intel design, and as such can be swapped with the dell/Lenovo/gigabyte..and so on

note that while the cards can swap, there is no guarantee the cards firmware will be compatible 

the HP TBolt 3 card again is a intel reference design card, however some 3rd party TBolt 3 cards are custom boards, however both the intel/OEM TBolt3 cards  use the same data signals

so what's the problem?.....  (ignoring the HP z620/820) it's that every motherboard maker seems to have a different TBolt connector, or a different pinout for their motherboard TBolt connector 

[huxiao3d]

Thanks for the answer, yes, I am currently looking for the pin assignment of this TBolt connector so I can get this accessory running again

[DGroves]

and until you state "which" model gigabyte motherboard.....there's not much more that anyone can do

second, gigabyte makes a TBolt 3 card/cable so rather than risking a fairly modern motherboard why not buy the correct card and be done with it?

[huxiao3d]

Thanks, I thought I could use it again, but I didn't expect it to end up as electronic junk, my motherboard is Gigabyte z170