DrSupachicken Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 Hi, I'm in the process of building my hackintosh. Intel D945GTP | Intel Pentium D 915 | Optical Drive | Floppy Drive all connected and and patched in with PSU, I'm still saving for my RAM and HDD. Am I able to turn it on with no RAM or HDD to enter the bios? Will this damage the box? Please don't laugh, just anxious to see if everything is going to plan. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DrSupachicken Posted June 15, 2007 Author Share Posted June 15, 2007 Thanks for the fast reply! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guilliamo Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 With no ram, you'll get a beep code indicating no memory found...see <http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs-010249.htm>. So basically, with no ram. you cannot get to the BIOS screen. No HDD, no problem...you could (at least in theory, and depending on the operating system) boot from the optical drive and have a fully functioning computer with no HDD. In either case...no RAM, no HDD, or neither, no damage will be done as long as all else is ok. Most important for first power-up is the seating of the processor, processor pad or thermal compound, & heat sink & fan. G =============================== Everything works, including both cores, DVI & sleep: Pentium D 3.2 Ghz - Intel Motherboard D945GNTKLR 10.4.9 Build 8P2137/Darwin 8.9.1 Kernel: Thu Mar 15 20:55:00 PST 2007; netkas: 792.18.15~1/ RELEASE_I386 2 GB Ram - 2x 1GB DDR2 667 HD 400 GB - Seagate SATA Onboard Firewire 400 Onboard 10/100/1000 LAN DVD-RW-DL Pioneer 18X DVR-212D SATA Sony CDRW 52X CRX23EE EIDE Belkin F5D7000 Wireless PCI Video ATI/ATI X1600 Pro PCIE 512MB Display Dell 2405FPW Logitech Wireless keyboard & mouse Aspire Pininfarina Tower Case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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