Alex69

Xeon 1230 V5 tested works with Intel ME disabled. Sadly Coffe Lake Xeons are twice as expensive as used Coffe Lake i5/i7. For example, Xeon E-2278G that is similar to 9900 might cost 600-800 USD used.

Hi guys, I was using DSANKE bios (I belive it is from P750DM3 with ME_DISABLED) to upgrade my P750DM barebone for I5 9600KF and it worked great. I wanted to upgrade for 8 cores and lower TDP and purchased E-2286M BGA CPU from Aliexpress. Sadly, it did not work. I thought it must be a bad contact due to bare crystal or something and ordered i7 9750H (6/12 core CPU) with lid package. It also did not work. Laptop just does not start. Both CPUs are working fine in modded with CoffeMod 0.99 MSI Z170 board and ME disabled. Anyone running BGA CPUs succesfully on P7xxx models? What BIOS you use? I can dump mine, but I am pretty sure it is latest stock bios from DSANKE, I never did any tweaks to it.