I just got the asus rog strix z270f motherboard. Other parts are yet to arrive. Here's what the problem is. I have just the mobo for now.. no cpu gpu hdd or ram. I saw videos of people claiming that you can run the mobo with fans without any other components installed. Edit - one thing i forgot to tell that all four of the usb ports at the front panel are working because i connected my phone through usb and it started charging. So i tried to do the same. Connected all the i/o switches and the 24pin atx connector from the psu. Whats happening is when i power on the psu, only the strix led and a tiny red power led lights up but when i press the power button on the cabinet nothing happens. The strix led keeps pulsating. I also tried to jump start the mobo by joing the power pins directly but still nothing happens. I have attached case speaker too but that also doesn't beeps for the missing parts. So my question is the mobo faulty or it simply wont work without cpu and ram.??? Note - psu is working perfectly in my other build nothing wrong with that. Case - cooler master stryker Psu - corsair vs 650
From what i´ve know no MB works without a CPU, RAM, HDD/SSD and a GPU... After all what´s point of running a MB without the other parts??? Also there might be some danger of using a MB without any other parts installed, so i wouldn´t do that in your place.
lol.. You can't use a motherboard by itself.. Use some common sense and don't believe everything you see on the internet. Wait for your parts to finish build.