USB C Thunderbolt causes Laptop to Hang and Crash

[nightmarevoid]

I have an HP Spectre X360 laptop and I've been trying to find a good way of using it to game. I decided to take advantage of both USB C Thunderbolt ports and am using an Akitio Node external GPU for one and the EUASOO 10 in 1 thunderbolt adapter for the other. The problem I've been having is that plugging something into the USB C ports while the laptop is running will either just not work (the GPU won't output and the HUB wont connect for power or data) or it will just cause my laptop to outright freeze sometimes. It also seems to stop my laptop from going into any kind of low power state like sleep or hibernate, instead forcing it to just wake back up. The only surefire way I know to make both devices work is to make sure my laptop already has a good amount of battery and then completely turn it off before plugging both devices in and restarting the computer. Has anyone else had problems like this?