PLEASE Help Me!

[CrayZE]

Okay, so I bought a GTX 970 and a PSU thats well enough to run my computer. I plugged evertyhing in correctly (99% sure) I wore ESD gloves and made sure I wouldnt shock anything. when I try to turn it on it does nothing but an orange light turns on inside. I have a Dell XPS 8700 btw

 

[4745454b]

Did you read our sticky about this very problem?

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems

 

[Captainzach]

The minimum PSU wattage is 500 and the amps per rail is most likely is garbage on the dell but you need 30amps
Sorry, man but you may have to upgrade your PSU also. Even if you do have a nice PSU with above recommendations it still won't work because Nvidia knows there cards don't work with Dell, they just don't mention it, so it can also be your motherboard which means you have 2 giant factors that may be causing the GTX 970 to do absolutely nothing

 

[CrayZE]

The minimum PSU wattage is 500 and the amps per rail is most likely is garbage on the dell but you need 30amps
Sorry, man but you may have to upgrade your PSU also. Even if you do have a nice PSU with above recommendations it still won't work because Nvidia knows there cards don't work with Dell, they just don't mention it, so it can also be your motherboard which means you have 2 giant factors that may be causing the GTX 970 to do absolutely nothing

My previous card was an Nvidia and it worked fine

 

[Captainzach]

Did you have a 750 or 750 ti by any chance?

 

[CrayZE]

Did you have a 750 or 750 ti by any chance?

i had a 745 Drr3 4gb and, I got it to turn on now my monitor just wont take the signal

 

[CrayZE]

Fixed. just had to update my BIOS.