Is it safe to test a computer with no HD?

[coolpurplefan]

I know the answer might be yes but I just wanted to know if anyone has any suggestions. I want to order a hard drive next month but my other parts might arrive before that.

 

[jagilbertvt]

Yeah, won't hurt a thing to power it w/ out a drive. In fact, you might want to, if it's going to be that long before you do get a drive, as you might discover a faulty component that needs to be RMA'd or returned (and wouldn't it suck to find that out after you get the drive? )

 

[Kakumba]

Hmmm. What actually happens? I have never even though of trying this, I have no idea on what would happen. Cant see how it would hurt anything, but I want to know how far you get into booting etc.

EDIT: Forgot the "T" in can't. Its's an important letter.

 

[imported_shader]

Is it safe to test a computer with no HD? - yes
what happens? hopefully it should post and then go through the boot order and then fail. or for a very good test you could have some bootable media (flash drive if the mb supports it, livecd, or floppy) and test it out.

 

[SonicIce]

download a live ubuntu cd or something and boot from it.

 

[jackschmittusa]

I usually test a new mb on the bench, booting with no drives (just cpu, ram, video) and make any initial changes to the bios while I'm at it.

 

[Fern]

Me too. I usually hook up a floppy and run memtest

 

[AlgaeEater]

Typically it boots normally running all tests. Then it will give you a

DISK READ FAILURE
Abort, Retry, Fail?

That's pretty much it.

 

[coolpurplefan]

Well, something weird happened. I looked up hard drive performance charts on tom`s hardware and found out the 300 GB Samsung HD is a lot slower than their 250 GB HD. Well, I thought that was pretty weird but in any case, since anitec.ca hadn`t shipped my current order, I asked them to add the Samsung 250 GB (model number SP2514N or something like that). In any case, it was actually faster than some SATA drives on some tests. I don`t understand that but I prefer PATA drives anyway because of the stronger connection on the motherboard.

Now I have to rush to pay off a certain amount on my credit card. LOL, I`m getting close to my limit.

 

[helpmeout]

" download a live ubuntu cd or something and boot from it."

It's LINUX!!! I had to Google that, my first thought was it might be African tribal music, LOL.