Obzoleet
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If everything is connected correctly, and works, then you can fire it up.
You should get one 'beep' from the motherboard, as a POST (power-on self-test) code. Fans should spin. Various lights should be on.
if you get anything other than the one-beep, you will have to see what POST beep codes your BIOS is using , and figure it out from there.
You can google "Post beep codes" to find these. Since I started building my own comps in abt 1997, I have heard a few, and also had the disappointment of hearing no beep at all. It is handy to at least have that clue, before loading OS.
I cannot recall It beeps even once, it just hums and all the lights and all fans starts spinning,
When connected to a screen it asks to insert disk to boot from , But I will fire it up today again to make sure if it beeps or not ( at work atm )
Also, I am going to invest in a H55 liquid cooler, but since I already have the stock cooler on the CPU now, which had some thermal paste on it, do I need to use some form of cleaning of the CPU before I moun the liquid cooler or can I just let the old thermal paste be on the CPU and mount the H55 straight away?
Thanks!