In the olden days I remember having to build redstone clocks to power them. But that was like so long ago, I can't imagine this to be the solution.
Anyway, as for the problem at hand.
It needs bc power (I haven't used one in months so I am a bit rusty) so what I used to do was this - it may help you. If it doesn't then the solution is that you are screwed and may need a reinstall of everything.
Anyway. A quarry needs a designated area or it will pick it's own 9x9 zone. Once you place one, you should get some kind of 3d rectangle - unless - you designated an area and failed in placing the quarry at any corner point.
So, definitely tell us if you got some kind of yellow/black rectangle.
Then, it needs power. I usually took an energy link and placed it next to the quarry and hooked that up to my MFSU network. Time is money you see, move that drill.
As soon as I succeeded in powering it, it starts to build the orange structure. Confirm to us if you have an orange structure.
When the orange structure was there it would spout stuff, but that is beyond the scope of this.
And for science sake use a spell checker.