Would it kill a motherboard to attempt to boot without ram?

[Don66]

I realize that the computer probably won't post but I would like to test power supply and fans.
Memory won't be here until Tuesday

 

[RemyCanad]

It will be fine. The board should give you an error code of some sort telling you that you have no memory installed.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: RemyCanad
It will be fine. The board should give you an error code of some sort telling you that you have no memory installed.

Except a lot of boards will just sit their without ram in them.

 

[John]

The system will power on fine.

 

[fire400]

you won't get nothing on the screen, if that's what you're asking? not even the BIOS will boot up.

 

[Don66]

Thanks for the replies.

Everything started up fine.

Now I can't wait for my Corsair to show up. LOL

 

[StevenNevets]

So... you could do this with say no video card or cpu?

 

[Zepper]

Some mobos have a set of LEDs on them that will display the BIOS post codes in some fashion and most will do the POST failure beep codes as well.

..bh.

 

[Rage187]

Originally posted by: StevenNevets
So... you could do this with say no video card or cpu?

afaik you have to have a CPU.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: RemyCanad
It will be fine. The board should give you an error code of some sort telling you that you have no memory installed.

Agreed, it will just make one long continuous beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: fire400
you won't get nothing on the screen, if that's what you're asking? not even the BIOS will boot up.

The BIOS will funtion, but it will stop the Power On Self Test (P.O.S.T.) process once it finds there is no Random Access Memory (R.A.M.) in the computer