So I was changing the case fans, after I put everything back together, I forgot to plug in the power for the GPU. I turned the pc on and I saw the white LED on GPU power port lid up and heard the fan spins like crazy (I don’t know if it was the CPU fan or the GPU fans), I panicked and immediately turned off the power supply.

Everything happened in less than 2 seconds, I’ve run some stress tests and gamed for a few hours and nothing bad happened (yet?) so I assumed everything is still fine (for now?).

What happens if I had left it on like that for longer? And why did the fan ram up like that?

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    11 months ago

    Wasn’t me, but I would assume you got down voted because it’s not possible for your mobo to have a display output without having an integrated GPU.

    That display output is literally a component of the onboard gpu

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      11 months ago

      My Intel Core i5 12400F literally DO NOT has integrated graphics so even if there are physical ports on the mother, I cannot get output from any of those ports. How the hell do they think I get video output from the motherboard if the CPU literally has no way of doing it?

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        11 months ago

        It’s not the CPU that contains the integrated graphics, it’s the mobo. Do you know what mobo you use?

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          11 months ago

          Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4. I’ve already tried plugging it in, which I don’t even need to, and lo and behold, no output to the monitor. Like I already said, how do you even get video out from a CPU that has no iGPU?

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          11 months ago

          Do you have a source for that? I’ve only ever known integrated graphics to be part of the CPU.

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            11 months ago

            Did I just step into the Twilight zone?

            I just confirmed that you are correct, but I am positive that both of the mobos I bought in the last decade had graphics cards built into them. I have legitimately no idea how I’m only just learning that that’s not normal.

            Thanks for letting me know