Alienware Aurora r4 alx crashes while in game

r u using 'both' vid-cables for each port? one cable has a 6pin + 8pin (6+2) but it is still just one cable:

• Upgrading PSU for Alienware R4
• Aurora R4 PSU upgrade
• see pics/text

Aurora power supply has two 12volt 'rails' ... engage each of them by using each cable ... did it help?

here, in Area-51, I've convinced this gentlemen to engage separate 12volt rails by using separate cables; next, in order to use a connecting scheme emplying the path of least resistance, I've advised him to insert the primary 6pin (P18) & borrow the 2pin from the resistive jumper (P19)

borrow the 2pin when your card needs a 6+2 / 8pin

photo = how NOT to connect

use both of the primary's / lay jumpers to the side

There is an 8pin and 6pin slot for the titan x... I use these two cables, the problems happen while I use these cables. You think the problem will stop if i use these cables that have the yellow wire in them???>>>>>>>>>

so the cables in my card should look like this?>>>

- no pictures seen here on my end -

Aurora has two cable pairs: blu-wht & blu-ylw

For instance, pop the primary blu-wht 6pin into TX's left port, pop the primary blu-ylw 6pin & borrow the 2p off of the resistive jumper, pop into right port, as seen in my 1st post. Test system for shutdown.

Idk why the pictures didn't come out... anyway your saying to use the primary 6pins and the 2pin for the titan instead of the other cables??

Here are the cables I an currently using, these are the ones that I shouldn't use? Here is a link to the picture of [CURRENT CABLES] imgur.com/gHRpxBI

Here are the cables that I'm guessing you want me to use to solve this problem? another link to a pic of the [CABLES THAT SHOULD WORK]  imgur.com/oQg3Pqd

And here is what it looks like with cables in the card  it has a 6pin slot and an 8pin slot...

imgur.com/Z7WaZc9

Thanks for the response

ok, in this photo, you're confusing 'connectors' for 'cables'. The blu-ylw is one cable. Yet you say: what it looks like with cables in the card. This is what it looks like with 'connectors' in the card.

Each cable is on its own 18amp 12volt rail - therefore - by using the blu-ylw, your Titan is only getting 18amps / 216watts of juice:

• when card demands over 216w, shutdown occurs
• I suspect this is why your system shuts down
• when connected correctly, we can troubleshoot better

Install both cables (blu-wht + bu-ylw) & Titan will get 36amps / 432w to feed from: 

for instance, insert P16 6pin, insert P14 6pin & borrow 2pin from P15

• use P15 jumper 6+2 if you must, knowing it is the more resistive connexion
• P14 + 2pin (from P15 jumper) is the path of least resistance ...
• connect as stated, then report back
• the proper time to use P15/P17 jumpers is for SLI | X-Fire

regardless the connector scheme used, always run the blu-wht + blu-ylw in a solo-card config

Area-51, discontinued around Nov. 21, 2011: what we're seeing here is one of the very last to be built; the service tag tells us it is a Dec 5th 2011 shipper, a rare one with i7 990x & dual-GTX 590's, 365watts each, dual 8pins. We would not want to use the jumpers, we would want the paths of least resistance -->primary 6p's followed by borrowing the jumper 2p's. Were that to happen, the cards & psu can run at their best & save a nickel on each of the monthly juice bills ... above, we would use all 4 of the primaries & lay all 4 of the jumpers to the side, so we'll call this one:

how 'not' to connect to 590's

The titan needs a 6pin and 8pin... so i should use p16 for 6pin and p14 6pin and the +2 from p15    Ill give it a go and get back to you

Ok I've put the cables how you said to, I inserted the p16 for the 6pin, and the p15 6pin with the p14's 2pin extension (this is correct right?).. It looks kind of weird but whatever heres what it looks like... ill get back to you sometime tonight or tomorrow, ill be on my computer gaming tonight so ill see if it continues to shut off while in game. Again thanks for the help hope this works!

use P16 (lay P17 jumper to side) >< Insert P14 6pin, lay P15 jumper to side & borrow its 2pin

Alternative? P16 (6pin) + P15 8pin (6+2)

like in this photo of Area-51, P16 6pin (P17 jumper layed to side) + P18 primary 6pin > lay P19 jumper to side > borrow P19 2pin = most efficient connecting scheme 

toss the jumper 6pins to the side: except for SLI/X-Fire

Alternatively the person could've plugged in P16 + P19, knowing the P19 jumper 6+2 is more resistive

the point in Aurora is to deploy BOTH vid-cables, blu-wht + blu-ylw 

my 295watt Radeon. you? same scenario: lay jumpers back, borrow 2pin

After 8 days of playing on an off, the computer has not crashed, thank you so much for helping me out man. I will leave the forum unsolved for now so just in case it happens again. So far so good!