patrickthecajun :
whew! thx again. I can't buy another system if it doesn't work so I have my fingers crossed. Waiting to get the pc and the gpu in the mail on Friday.
patrickthecajun,
looking forward to your results. i'm in nearly the exact same boat. last night, installed in my XPS 8000:
PSU: corsair cx500M
new case fan
EVGA GeForce GTX750Ti FTW w/ EVGA ACX cooling.
at first, it seemed to work and booted up fine. of course, needed to install the display drivers. and this is where the stuff hit the fan. the GeForce Experience (or whatever its called) took over 30 minutes to process...and it was 11.30pm by then. online talks about this program taking extensive time to install. i neglected to turn off my AntiVirus (don't do that) and didn't delete the old Nvidia display drivers (recommended, but supposedly the driver install program does it).
Figured overnight would do the trick, but i woke up to my dell xps 8000 beeping six times. over and over. non-functional at this point. when i get home, i'll try re-seating the video card and maybe trying a different PCI connector for the video card's secondary power point.
love to hear your results and if you get everything done on first pass. avoid my mistakes and good luck!
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Update 6.57pm PST 9/5/2014
got home and, per advice on some of these articles and forums, i disconnected everything (all USBs and unnecessary connections) and turned on the PC...VIOLA' it booted up. it went through some safe mode boot ups--cycled 2x--but after 15 minutes or so, got in and it all works well. now time to try it out, but dunno what happened <shrug>.
Good luck with your build/upgrade as well!
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