PXIe-1078D compatability with PXIe-8375 Thunderbolt connection

[CuriousQuack]

I have a PXIe-1078D with a PXIe-8379 Thunderbolt connected to its Slot 1 Controller. I'm trying to use a thunderbolt connector from my computer to the controller ( PXIe-8379) and read some data from it. The PXIe-1078D turns on but the computer cannot detect the device through the thunderbolt connection.

Is it that the PXIe-8379 is not compatible with the PXIe-1078D? If so, which controller connector would be compatible with this PXIe-1078D Chassis?

Please and thanks!

[ZYOng]

Does your motherboard support Thunderbolt?

Reference: Re: PXIe-8379 Documentation Request

[CuriousQuack]

The PC is an Intel i5 Acer Aspire TC-1760. it doesn't seem to support thunderbolt 2 since I couldn't find the word in its BIOS, system info or device manager... but, we've mounted a thunderbolt PCIe adapter (micro star ms-4361) to the desktop and installed the intel thunderbolt driver. I assumed it would work afterwards but I don't see the device in the device manager.

if it helps, when the PXI-1078D is on, the port 1 and port 2 LEDs are a yellowish orange. Does this light mean that the controller card is working?

If my thinking is correct, Does Thunderbolt have to be already embedded into the motherboard of a computer? and the PCIe adapter just serves as an input to access this embedded capability?

Also, this may be an out of scope question, but can Thunderbolt 2 be added to a PC if the motherboard doesn't support it?

I tried connected with my laptop Dell latitude 7420 which seems to have thunderbolt support but I don't seem to be able to connect to the device. I'm connecting using a usb-c to thunderbolt adapter.

Thank you in advance for your response and help!

[santo_13]

Third-party thunderbolt cards don't work as well as they claim to be. 

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@CuriousQuack wrote:

Also, this may be an out of scope question, but can Thunderbolt 2 be added to a PC if the motherboard doesn't support it?

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Nope, not reliably and you need to experiment a lot before finding out which works and which don't. This applies to TB3 as well, especially in the context of PXIe equipment control, as a lot of low-level bus features are used, and these adapters don't seem to translate them exactly.