redfish
Intelligent Metalhead
- Messages
- 345
- Location
- North Shore Massachusetts
thank you very much for the help, Trotter. With that out of the way, I had one other problem, the RAM, which I just took care of- there was a sale on this OCZ Gold ddr3 1333 4gb kit and I jumped on it. It had mediocre reviews, it seemed like half of the people got great sticks and the other half got unlucky, but I'm suspicious that the "unlucky" half didn't check their QVL's. Although, they did run MemCheck and found bad results... While this specific model kit isn't on my QVL, a kit with the same sticks but came with three of them was... I assume they are OK. I expect them to come in the mail tomorrow. I am anxious to check that all my components are working fine, but I don't have my HDD or ODD yet. If I turn on the computer without a hard drive, will it boot? Can I set up bios without a hard drive? And what if it doesn't boot? Is there a list of checks I can go through to pinpoint the problem? I'm very nervous about the first boot. Oh, and one last question- I forgot to ask this before. If I plug in and turn on the PSU, will the fans spin or does it have to receive a power-on command from the mobo? I meant to ask this when I first got the case+PSU, because I wanted to make certain that it wasn't DOA.