Upgrading My Discrete Video Card

Hello, I have an issue with upgrading a video card for the HP Pavilion p6-2022uk, I previously had a different card in the HP a GT 430 installed but wanted to upgrade to the new GTX 750 ti for more performance checking the specification of the new card with a minimum of 300w and seeing that it did not require any external power I believed that card was compatible. So I removed the old drivers of the GT 430 and swapped the cards when I turned the computer on the monitor turned on and the graphics card seemed to be working with the fan spinning but it would not allow for me to get past the bios screen and seemed to reject the card. So after trying to talk to EVGA about a solution with limited success I was recommended to ask for help from HP I have returned the card but if there is a solution you can provide that would be most helpful so that I can reorder the graphics card. The only area that I have not tested is an update of the BIOS found on your site but the only improvements specified with the update was that -
Resolves issue with system hang during POST when a touch screen monitor is connected
Resolves issue with F12 hotkey malfunction after loading BIOS defaults via any method
These two fixes amended by the update did not seem to be relevant to my issue any advice would be greatly appreciated. So the BIOS is now updated to AMI 7.16 23/03/2012
Full specifications of the GTX 750 ti graphics card can be found here http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-750-ti/specifications
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Hi,
RMA the card for a refund. EVGA's GTX 750s graphics cards will not work in your PC. Try one of the below graphics cards.
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