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Update. i3 8100 arrived and fitted. No change. I think I'm at the point of throwing in the towel. I won't be looking for a replacement board unless it's brand new and in the UK. RIP, it was a good ride..

Does anyone know if a i3-8100 would work as a test cpu? They're super cheap and would help me diagnose it without taking it to the shop, which would cost more than the 2nd hand i3-8100

Ok, small update. Flashed the bios with the standard clevo fw. No change in behaviour, unfortunatly. I'll take the cpu to the shop for testing. Edit: it was a fantastic learning experience though!!

Interesting, ok well the programmer has arrived now. I might try and flash it with the clevo bios and see. Nothing to loose really. If I don't get any success then I'll go the shop. I'll be happy if it is the cpu and not the board or gpu which from my searching the Internet so far are nearly impossible to find.

Yeah so thats more or less identical to mine. Hmmm.... this is frustrating because before seeing your post I was thinking I might need to reflash the bios... but now I'm not so sure. I've just bought a programmer that arrives in the next couple of hours. I might try it anyway and if that fails, take it to the shop to diagnose since I have no way of testing the board, gpu or cpu.

I thought so too initially but having removed it and other components one by one, and from what reading I've done the behaviour should have changed...but it hasn't. I'm thinking its the board now.

Hi, I'm having some trouble with my P775TM1-G. It was doing fine and then just stopped working the other day. The symptoms are as follows:- I turn it on....then, Black screen, no back illumination, no BTO splash screen. Keyboard does it's little light dance for 20seconds or so. Keyboard goes black. Fans do a little self test and just stay on low, maybe 5 or 10% Then the fans spin up to 100% It stays in this state for about a 1 min. Then the machine turns off. There is no caps lock light etc I've seen this post... ...which initially filled me with confidence, however, the key difference is that in the post above the machine didn't shut off. I've done the following to try and fault find:- No Battery with good 330w power, same result . Power drain (no battery, hold down on button for 1min), inc. removing CMOS cell, same result Spamming F2 has no effect, same result Removed all RAM (all 4 sticks) and SSD, same result Reseated CPU, same result Reseated GPU, same result Fn+D on start up, same result Literally the symptoms regardless. I thought it was the GPU at first but since going though the fault finding list, I'm honestly stuck. Any help or ideas would be welcome. Thank you 🙂