Interesting...pooh, I hope it's not the VRAM but we shall see.

If it's a dead duck, I'll repost...get the parts somewhere useful. I expect this is a 180mhz. because it's only coming with a floppy drive, no CD.

Shoot, I had a 3rd 5300cs where the screen had gone dead (for the last time i was willing to jigger with) but I purged that in an office move about a year ago. I would have been happy to donate it to your efforts...