I bought a b-stock 970 ftw last week and it arrived today. Unfortunately I can't get it to work with my system. When I start it up I get spinning fans (case, cpu, and gpu) but it won't boot, no beeps, no bios splash screen. Things I've tried:
 
- reseating the card and cables, several times
- updating the mobo's bios
- pulling the cmos battery for a few minutes, because why not
 
None of that helped. The rest of my components are getting a little long in the tooth now. i5-2500k, msi p67a-c43 (b3) motherboard, and an ocz fatal1ty 550w psu. Unfortunately I don't have another pc to test the card in. Anyone think it could be that power supply or have any ideas on anything else I can try?

Sajin
Take the card to your local computer repair shop to have it tested.

Either that, or try another PSU first. It may well be the PSU.

dnashifter
Put in a new 750w Corsair psu and still no go, just spinning fans. Put my xfx 7870 back in and it booted right up. Oh well, it was worth a shot.

So you got it work then? Maybe it was just a bad connection or something...

As a last ditch hail mary, after combing the back of the ftw with a magnifying glass for a couple minutes, I managed to find and toggle the bios switch to what I guess is the secondary bios, but I guess not too surprisingly it still wouldn't post. Still also worth a shot, just for the thrill of the hunt and the ten seconds worth of hope.
 
Oh, I just got a message from support about an RMA and a prepaid shipping label. Yay!

Good for You. And yet again, EVGA lives up to it's reputation of being the best at customer service. Now if they would only produce a 980 Ti Hydro Copper so that I may SLI the lonely one I already have  :(