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Hard drive needed for system to post?

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LIVAN

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Just a quick question, does a boot drive need to be connected for the system to "post"?, ie The black/white bios screen.
 
Originally posted by: AristoV300
Yes, how else would it post to the BIOS?
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what the heck are you taking about, the BIOS is stored on a chip in the board, which is loaded, then the PC boots up from any IDE, SCSI, or SATA devices installed, and in some cases like my A7N8X-E, it can boot from USB devices, but in order to make the motherboard POST and enter the BIOS, all you need is the vid card, cpu, and ram, just like oldie said
 
Crap, that is what I thought. I didn't think I needed that drive. So if my CPU is not posting, CPU is dead? Will a dead cpu still take power? ie be warm/hot?
 
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