yup, I'm sure they are not in backwards

My diagnosis with this would be, Someone hooked up a unidisk or something, blew that one cap, and then handling it improperly, over a period of time, ESD might have finished off one of the main chips.

I even booted the IIe disk image, on my dual floppy LC-1 (with no hard drive) and ran the IIe Start Up app, It says: Your IIe card is defective.

looks like a no brainer.

i'd love for it to work, but it doesn't

Charles