Question

[giakohi123]

Hey, I was wondering if you don't have an SSD (in my case an NVME .2 SSD) will the PC just fail to display anything on the moniter? I can't troubleshoot my PC because my SSD hasn't arrived yet so I can't tell if something went wrong during the building process

My PC is an i5 10400H

msi 1660 Super (I live in Vietnam, shut up, I know AMD is better, they just don't exist here)

16 gigs of RAM

[Fr33K!e]

If your build was successful then it should post without an SSD/NVMe drive installed... you'll be able to get into the BIOS but that's about it! 

[Spotty]

The computer does not need a storage drive in order to boot or display. Since you won't have an operating system installed (no storage drive to install it to) you won't be able to progress beyond the BIOS/EUFI screen. If you have a USB flash drive you could install a live operating system to that USB drive and boot to that to test the system without needing a M.2 drive.

[Tetras]

Usually it will either say that there is a boot failure, or just boot straight into the BIOS.

 

Isn't the i5-10400H a mobile CPU? How do you have that in a desktop?

[ItTakes2ToMango]

20 minutes ago, giakohi123 said:

Hey, I was wondering if you don't have an SSD (in my case an NVME .2 SSD) will the PC just fail to display anything on the moniter? I can't troubleshoot my PC because my SSD hasn't arrived yet so I can't tell if something went wrong during the building process

Should boot.

 

21 minutes ago, giakohi123 said:

My PC is an i5 10400H

msi 1660 Super

Which one are you plugging the display into?

 

21 minutes ago, giakohi123 said:

 shut up, I know AMD is better, they just don't exist here)

 

AMD is not better at GPUs than Nvidia - solely from a performance standpoint. AMD comes in to win the value buys

[Dedayog]

39 minutes ago, giakohi123 said:

Hey, I was wondering if you don't have an SSD (in my case an NVME .2 SSD) will the PC just fail to display anything on the moniter? I can't troubleshoot my PC because my SSD hasn't arrived yet so I can't tell if something went wrong during the building process

My PC is an i5 10400H

msi 1660 Super (I live in Vietnam, shut up, I know AMD is better, they just don't exist here)

16 gigs of RAM

You're overthinking and jumping the gun.  Just wait for the SSD to get here, and go thru the standard PC build process.

 

 

[giakohi123]

I'm plugging it into the GPU, it turns up but the PC doesn't show up on the display, i used 3 different moniters and multiple different cables, not a single one showed the BIOS, so i'm starting to wonder if something was wrong

[Tetras]

31 minutes ago, giakohi123 said:

I'm plugging it into the GPU, it turns up but the PC doesn't show up on the display, i used 3 different moniters and multiple different cables, not a single one showed the BIOS, so i'm starting to wonder if something was wrong

I'd just wait until you have the ssd, otherwise you might do more harm than good by fiddling around with it.

[giakohi123]

23 hours ago, Spotty said:

The computer does not need a storage drive in order to boot or display. Since you won't have an operating system installed (no storage drive to install it to) you won't be able to progress beyond the BIOS/EUFI screen. If you have a USB flash drive you could install a live operating system to that USB drive and boot to that to test the system without needing a M.2 drive.

Well, I can't even see the BIOS screen, it just doesn't show up. The computer appears to boot up but it doesn't show anything on my moniter