Black Screen, Fan and Keyboard Lights Operational

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Black Screen, Fan and Keyboard Lights Operational

Tried reboot, power drain, disconnecting battery + holding power button 2 minutes, moved RAM sticks (did not replace), external monitor (black screen as well). From what I’ve been reading, it appears to be an issue with my motherboard. Laptop came with Windows 10. Please help, specs are below.

Alienware 17
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ (Quad-Core, 6MB Cache, up to 3.5GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
Windows 10 Home-HE (64bit) English
128GB M.2 SATA 6Gb/s SSD (Boot) + 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)
32GB Dual Channel DDR4 2133Mhz (16GBx2)
NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX 980M with 8GB GDDR5
 

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Yes, completely black as soon as I press the power button.
 

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Coming up on 2 years now. It’s been like this for the past half year, haven’t gotten around to getting it fixed. Taking it in tomorrow, just hoping to get a good idea of what the issue might be before I go in.
 

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I had a feeling about that. The fan had been acting weird a month up until it black screened, and I suspected I had some sort of damage from overheating.
 

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Jun 22, 2018
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I just remembered it would randomly black screen sometimes, and a reboot would normally fix it. Anyways, thanks a lot.
 

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Ok, I’m getting a beeping noise after testing one of them. 4 beeps.
 

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I located the CLRP1 pins and used a flathead to touch both at the same time. Nothing afterwards.