you should tell things like this to your wife/girlfriend at first hand.
but better late then never to find out you did not break anything.
thx for sharing 😀

I had a similar thing happen when I first got my Intel MS440GX Slot-2 board. I thought the board was dead when I didn't get any video or POST right after turning it on, then I find out it just takes a stupidly long time to complete some kind of memory test before the board actually POSTs.

Heh.
I actually did one of those yesterday. I was pulling my hair out trying to get a null modem cable working so I could play some multiplayer on my Win98 laptops. It occurred to me to check the BIOS to make sure the addresses and such were correct. It was then I discovered I had purposefully disabled the COM1 ports on both laptops.

Yep, same story here! Had a problem getting my A7V333 to power on (I was swapping graphics cards and thought there was something causing a short or something). Turned out the power cable in the middle (was using one of those computer power cable extentioners) had unplugged itself -_-
And also once had the 'honor' of trying to get an IDE device to boot with IDE disabled in the BIOS 🤣

Wasn't there a thread already with all the mistakes we ever made in computing? I'm pretty sure I posted in one such topic, but can't remember if it was here on Vogons.

Last week, after switching 4 VGA cards, 2 motherboards and 3 sets of SDRAM sticks, I realized that the reason for no display output on the screen was due to myself not connecting KVM monior to the VGA card, but the other one sitting on the side, which was not even under power.... 😏