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Motherboard no processor, safe to power up?

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Post February 3rd, 2008, 12:04 am

Is it safe to power up a Power Supply with the following connected?

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Motherboard having no processor?

My power supply popped but I am not sure if the motherboard could get damaged of this.
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Post February 3rd, 2008, 12:04 am

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Post February 14th, 2008, 9:27 am

What would be the point of powering up, if you have no processor?
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Post February 14th, 2008, 9:39 am

Why not just power on the PSU without anything connected?
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Post February 16th, 2008, 4:31 pm

I don't know if this is what you are going for, but I've powered on a pc with nothing but the hard drives connected for power, and wired the IDE cables over to another pc to access information. So I see nothing wrong with it.

However, what is your intended use?
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Post February 17th, 2008, 4:24 am

My guess is that it will fail the POST & beep at you just like it would if there was a bad processor in the board.
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