Discreet graphics needed to boot?

Blue_Poes

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Motherboard = Asrock FM2A88M EXTREME4+
Processor = Athlon X4 860K 4.0GHz Black Edition

A new build that was intended to be a headless unit wont boot. I went through everything taking out ram and getting beeps indicating motherboard was alive, tried different combinations of ram still nothing.

Either the Processor is DOA, or it will not boot at all without a graphics card. I don't have a graphics card at hand, so can anyone confirm this before I go source a graphics card, or before I send the processor back. Does it need a graphics card to boot?

Thank you.
 

Blue_Poes

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Yeah I realise it's not A-series APU. It was never gonna display stuff on a screen so I wanted to make sure it was needed before I put one in it. Thanks.