Hi all,

I recently purchased an hp xw6200 and have now done a few upgrades to it. These upgrades have been putting in a DVD re-writer, an ide along with sata hard drives, x-fi sound card and a modular graphics power supply.

I recently added in a Geforce gtx 460 card which I connected to the modular power supply and then my computer gave these errors: it booted up with graphical abnormalities, it had red triangles and such. So I researched a bit and found out that it was probably bad vram on the graphics card causing this. So sent the graphics card back to the distributor. While trying to get the graphics card to work I had tried installing its bios through a patch the graphics card company had and also updating the video drivers to the latest from nvidia. While doing all of this my computer suddenly turned off and started restarting, sometimes going to a BSOD complaining about the video card not functioning correctly. I also twice got an error message from the computer where the computer power button blinked red 6 times and also beeped 6 times.

Anyway the computer's build is:

power supply is a delta electronics inc, DPS-470AB-1 A REV :00f A picture of it is uploaded here: http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/2217/dsc01065y.jpg

2 512mb cards of ecc DDR2 pc2-3200 ram

2 1gb cards of ecc DDR2 pc2-3200 ram

1 ide primary hard drive with 160 gb of space

1 sata secondary hard drive with 320 gb of space

1gigabyte gt 240 1 gb graphics card

1 modular power supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817101044&cm_re=juice_box-_-17-101-044-_-Product

1 DVD rw drive

2 xeon nocona 3200 mhz processors

Anyway my questions are: do I need a different power supply to be able to power a gtx 460 or 560 ti graphics card because of the low amperage on the main power supply or will either run fine since I have the two pci-e connectors from the modular power supply?

The gtx 460 that I tried to use in my system seemed to require 2 pci-e connectors along with 22 amps of power. One of my questions is also do the amps completely come from the 12V rail or do the pci-e connectors also give amps.

When I look at the system board it appears that it uses a 24 pin connector, but I also read somewhere that since it is a 2 physical cpu set-up there might be a problem just upgrading psu's because it appears that hp made the processors need a certain amount of amps to each of them; not too little not too much. So wondered if the one 12v rail would be fine or if it would fry the cpus or not EVEN work with them. The cpus are intel xeon nocona 3.2GHz with HT enabled

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I recently added in a Geforce gtx 460 card which I connected to the modular power supply and then my computer gave these errors