That, my friend, would the the capacitors leaking on the board. The only option you have is to replace the caps on the board. either that, as a short-term is to wash the gunk from the old caps off the board, would be to put the board in a dishwasher.

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---If the capacitors leak on the motherboard, which seems a very harmful hardware failure...would it be possible that I had taken this screenshot twenty minutes ago? [] ]'>

What I mean by that, is **not** the Classic is dead showing squares on boot time forever, but only sometimes...mostly when I turn it off and reboot...so chances are this or this, taken directly from the Apple website

---Only just to confirm. So I will be in search of a Thorx D-15 screwer next monday in order to a) replace the 3,6 V battery from the motherboard, which AFAIK could be **almost dead** and possibly causing the boot squares on screen, as well as verify the ROM/RAM chips are firmly tight on to the board..

Will keep posting on this. Thanks for the reply... :beige: :beige: