Installing a graphics card for the first time

TheMagi

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Warning, I am a bit of a noob!

NEW graphics card: Geforce GTX 650Ti
NEW Power Supply: ATX ILG-400R2 (400W)
OLD integrated graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 6530D
Processor: AMD A6-3620 APU
OLD Powe Supply has no details listed on it besides it being 350W

Hey guys, so I'm trying to get this graphics card to work but I keep running into a wall. So first of all I have already gone and and replaced the older power supply with a new one. I ran the system with the integrated graphics card and it worked fine. Then I put in the graphics card and one of two things happens:

1.) If the monitor is plugged into the integrated graphics card while the new graphics card is plugged up and has power coming into it, my computer will fail to start and flash an orange light and beep.

2.) If the monitor is plugged into the new graphics card while its plugged up and has power, the screen goes into the HP opening blue screen with the hand and the message at the bottom that says "press esc for startup menu" but it just freezes there and is unresponsive to keyboard or mouse commands.

If I unplug the new graphic card to the power supply and have the monitor plugged into the integrated graphics card port then the computer runs fine, even with the new graphics card hooked into the motherboard with no power.

I tried running the computer with only 2GB of ram (I have 4GB and was told that having less ram on the first run might help) and I unplugged it all and plugged it back in ending only in these exact results. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Lol
 
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teddymines

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Your PC might not support it through the BIOS, or possibly the PCI slots themselves. The specs for that card show support for PCI Express 3.0, with this footnote:
GeForce GTX 650 Ti supports PCI Express 3.0. The Intel X79/SNB-E PCI Express 2.0 platform is only currently supported up to 5GT/s (PCIE 2.0) bus speeds even though some motherboard manufacturers have enabled higher 8GT/s speeds.

Post the PC model and bios version.
 
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