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Post #6 by roj_matt
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Flipped pixels like this would pretty much have to be a digital issue. There's just no way an analog failure in the flyback, yoke or CRT would produce clean pixels with the wrong value like this.

If the same logic board works in your other SE/30, then check the voltage levels, especially +5V. Maybe it's out of range and causing glitches on the logic board. On the analog board, the only component I could imagine causing this would be the inverter U1, but even that seems pretty unlikely.

The white pixels track objects on the screen, but don't appear in the middle of the grey pattern on the background. It suggests to me a problem on writing to the VRAM UC6 and UC7 (check the continuity on the address lines perhaps).
I checked continuity with all 24 pins on UC6 and UC7, and everything tested ok.  As techknight and Paralel have stated, it must be bad VRAM (which means UC6 and/or UC7 may need to be replaced...).  I was REALLY hoping it would be a bad trace, or something like that that's easy to fix...

Bad VRAM. Seen it before. 
What am I up against here?  It seems like the most difficult thing here would be acquiring 2 replacement ICs for UC6 and UC7.  My initial Google searches reveal that these chips aren't easy to come by (but I could be wrong).  I've sifted through some of the other topics, and apparently you have replaced VRAM chips before.  Do you know where I can find these chips?

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