Yeah I mentioned that in my other comment. I always test boot my new builds while outside the case with just the CPU installed. I like to make sure it's posting each time I add new hardware so I can know before I put it all in the case that something is wrong. I have never had a board refuse to post without a cooler or fans connected, but they will give warnings out the wazoo though.
Majorllama
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Man I used to check if systems would post without a cpu cooler installed at all back in the day. I wouldn't run it for more than a few seconds but just long enough to make sure it was posting.
Had a buddy burn his finger pretty good because he wanted to know how hot a cpu would get without a cooler lol. Turns out they get hot enough to burn humans within a couple seconds lol
I've built a lot of computers in my lifetime and my only guess when reading your post was that somehow one of them was causing a short and that short was somehow preventing the system from successfully posting, but I'm not sure how that would work exactly.
My level of technical knowledge ends about there. I can troubleshoot and swap hardware all day, but idk how a case fan would cause a system not to boot specifically.
Unless.... Was one of the case fans running from the CPU header for some reason? Maybe the board thought the CPU fan was cooked and it was preventing a boot for safety? I've never seen anything like that safety speaking, but I could believe it exists.
I have goodish news. We aren't going to run out of helium any time soon.
Based on current rates of helium consumption the US alone has something like 250+ years of stored helium. We pumped a porous mountain full of all the helium we could back in the 60s and it's been kept stable since.
We still have no alternative to helium in a few of its most important use cases, but there is price where the helium we haven't bothered collecting will become cost effective to go get. Those untapped reserves are estimated 3-10 times what we have ever used.
I'm also fairly certain that we will have figured out a way to produce helium in the next hundred years. We know how it came to exist naturally it's really just the matter of someone being crazy enough to try and replicate those underground conditions and spend the money on the project.
I have faith that helium is a solvable problem for the human race.
The only people who would get mad about the word "Cracker" are crackers and they can suck it.
source: I am pasty white dude and I have been called every slur for white folks you can possibly imagine. Not a single one has ever bothered me in the slightest. Most of them are hilarious.
Some of my personal favorites were: Caulkie, ghost, honkaloid, milkhead, moon cricket, mulletard, pigmently-challenged, powdered donut, raw chicken, saltine, tornado bait, wonder bread and mayonnaise packet.