<This is not a Dell SupportAssist issue. Moving this thread to the Alienware Laptops board. DELL-Admin>

hello, ive been looking into this for quite some time and i just cant seem to be able to get this monitor to work with my laptop, the monitor works, its a 27 inch display from apple and it has a thunderbolt 2 cable and a legacy magsafe charger for macbooks(im not exactly sure what the model is) i have the adapter for thunderbolt 2 to thunderbolt 3(that being thunderbolt 2 to usbc) and ive tested and have used this monitor with multiple macbooks to verify that the device does in fact work. my alienware x17 r2 has a thunderbolt port, at least i believe thats the case since theres a thunderbolt icon next to one of the usbc ports. the other usbc port does not have this thunderbolt icon and what's notable is the port without the thunderbolt icon can detect this display while the one explicitly with a thunderbolt icon does not. ive tried a multitude of drivers such as the thunderbolt control center and its drivers, notably nothing shows up in that app but when plugging the adapter into the non thunderbolt port, i can view the device inside device manager. while i was trying to get this monitor working i also came across this:

PCI Status : Warning

Error code list
PCI Status Tests : DW-51 - Driver Error
USB Controller : Warning

Error code list
PCI Status Tests : DW-43 - Driver Error
PCI Bridge : Warning

Error code list
PCI Status Tests : DW-51 - Driver Error

by the looks of it theres a chance this is causing my issue? although im unable to identify any of the drivers needed in these three warnings.