Installing Geforce GTX 1070ti

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I recently bought a 6 pin to 8 pin adapter after being told in a previous question this was what I needed since my psu only had 2 6 pin connections. Before getting the adapter my monitor would not even power on at all, with the 6 to 8 pin adapter now my monitor powers on but I am getting the error "Please power down and connect the PCIe power cables for this graphics card". I checked and double checked the connections even trying a different adapter since I bought 2 of them, nothing made any difference. Anyone have and other ideas what might be needed to get this to work with my pc? This is the PC I own https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883102075 Thanks for any help.
 
Solution
You need at least an adapter to PCIe 8pin, either from that 6pin or from SATA/Molex adapter, it's dangerous not use all power connections required on a GPU.