Jumpstart computer safe?

[Jordy123]

Hi,

All my components have arrived for my pc build, except my case. After asking around here and looking online it seems to be pretty safe to just build it on top of my motherboard box while I wait a week for the case. My question is how safe is it to jumpstart the motherboard, and is there any risk I could damage my components? If so I might just wait till I get my case (this is my first PC build so I'm not too sure about jumpstarting). Btw in case it helps, I have a B450 Tomahawk Max

 

Thanks

[bmx6454]

assuming you mean to turn it on, yes, this is safe as long as your careful to only touch the 2 power pins.

[LIGISTX]

8 minutes ago, Jordy123 said:

Hi,

All my components have arrived for my pc build, except my case. After asking around here and looking online it seems to be pretty safe to just build it on top of my motherboard box while I wait a week for the case. My question is how safe is it to jumpstart the motherboard, and is there any risk I could damage my components? If so I might just wait till I get my case (this is my first PC build so I'm not too sure about jumpstarting). Btw in case it helps, I have a B450 Tomahawk Max

 

Thanks

What does jumpstart mean to you..? You don't need a case at all, my test bench is an open air PC for easy component swapping and testing. The case is cardboard, so its not conductive. Sitting the mobo on that is fine. Don't sit it on the antistatic bag it came in, that conducts electricity along the outside of the bag..... That would be bad. But on the box is totally fine.

[mariushm]

Make sure the motherboard sits on something that's not conductive , like the cardboard box, some sheets of paper , a plastic sheet. ... NOT the plastic / metallic bag the motherboard came in.

 

You can start the motherboard by temporarily shorting those two pins in the front panel header, the on_sw 

You can  turn it off by shorting those 2 pins for 4s+ or just by turning off the psu.

 

[Jordy123]

6 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

What does jumpstart mean to you..? You don't need a case at all, my test bench is an open air PC for easy component swapping and testing. The case is cardboard, so its not conductive. Sitting the mobo on that is fine. Don't sit it on the antistatic bag it came in, that conducts electricity along the outside of the bag..... That would be bad. But on the box is totally fine.

@LIGISTXThanks for the tips! Do you think I side the cardboard box my monitor came in is fine? It has walls on the side so stuff won't fall out but is completely open on top.

Thanks

[bmx6454]

1 minute ago, Jordy123 said:

@LIGISTXThanks for the tips! Do you think I side the cardboard box my monitor came in is fine? It has walls on the side so stuff won't fall out but is completely open on top.

Thanks

yes, that will be fine.

[Jordy123]

Just now, bmx6454 said:

yes, that will be fine.

@bmx6454and everyone else thanks for the help!

[LIGISTX]

4 minutes ago, Jordy123 said:

@LIGISTXThanks for the tips! Do you think I side the cardboard box my monitor came in is fine? It has walls on the side so stuff won't fall out but is completely open on top.

Thanks

I mean... nothing can "fall out". You can literally built it just on your table assuming your table isn't metal or anything conductive. 

 

This is my test bench... but you don't need to be nearly as fancy. the mobo can literally just sit on the mobo box. PSU can sit next to it. Thats it, everything else goes on the mobo... SSD can just sit anywhere, harddrive can sit anywhere as long as it won't fall. And your good.

 

 

[Jordy123]

2 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

I mean... nothing can "fall out". You can literally built it just on your table assuming your table isn't metal or anything conductive. 

 

This is my test bench... but you don't need to be nearly as fancy. the mobo can literally just sit on the mobo box. PSU can sit next to it. Thats it, everything else goes on the mobo... SSD can just sit anywhere, harddrive can sit anywhere as long as it won't fall. And your good.

 

 

@LIGISTXAhaha 'nothing fancy' that looks great! Thankyou so much for the help!