Don't run it without the daughter card. It needs to be there!
Although once I did accidentally boot a 3000 with a Cyberstorm card, without the buster chip installed. It got all the way to early boot screen before I realized my error and shut it off! It wasn't even acting funny, I just looked down and realized what I'd done and shut it off. No harm done, thankfully, but don't try that at home :-)
