Motherboard without 20/24 pins vs PSU Corsair CX430M

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So I have the HP 590-p0044 desktop equipped with the Sunflower mobo no 20/24 pins plug (https://support.hp.com/my-en/document/c05939208) and a stock psu 180W.
I'm now holding a second 1TB HDD and EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC graphic card, so I try to replace the stock psu 180W by my old psu Corsair CX430M (430W) but I FIND NOWHERE to plug it in!
Please, any genius, help me to solve this case T_T
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Only seeing a pair of 4-pin power connectors. If HP didn't put too much effort into being a proprietary PITA, then both of these might be simple ATX12V connectors. In that case, you could use adapters to power the motherboard and jumper the PSU so it stays always on.

If HP is a b1tch, then the pinout on at least one connector could be a completely proprietary affair and require re-pinning connectors at the very least.
HP, Dell, and other OEMs are known to do this. They use a proprietary setup (in this case the PSU+Motherboard connections) to make it impossible to upgrade.
Unfortunate to say, you will not be able to upgrade that PSU, and subsequently wont be able to upgrade your GPU.
 
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So let's say that the EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC will cost around 75W and AMD Ryzen 5 2400G chipset cost around 45-65W + 1 more 1TB HDD, a combo keyboard+mouse. Do you think the stock psu (180W) can hold them good?
 

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Only seeing a pair of 4-pin power connectors. If HP didn't put too much effort into being a proprietary PITA, then both of these might be simple ATX12V connectors. In that case, you could use adapters to power the motherboard and jumper the PSU so it stays always on.

If HP is a b1tch, then the pinout on at least one connector could be a completely proprietary affair and require re-pinning connectors at the very least.
 
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