I bought this server for a steal as recommended by extremetech and have been having fun trying to bend it to my will. I bought it for bitcoin mining and have since sold the miners and have been making fun upgrades aka ram, ssd, raid array even an hd 7750 graphics card and a soundblaster soundcard. but the time came where I simply couldn't stay with the 305 watt standard power supply, so I went out and bought myself a 600 watt peak 500 watt continuous EVGA with good amperage and also an EVGA GTX 760, I installed the PSU and it works great, but is kind of pointless if I can't get it to boot with the graphics card in, it just freezes with a black screen and the white horizontal cursor at the top left. Someone suggested I need to change my BIOS to UEFI and that this might allow it to boot, I think it should have enough power as it is connected by the motherboard as well as the 8 and 6 pin power adapters, is this motherboard limitation? or should i try some differant power configurations or the UEFI thing or maybe something new. I am all for solving a problem unless there is some fundamental roadblock i don't know about making it impossible.
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