Well, it's been a 24 hours, and I turned it on. Sadly, it appears the degaussing circuitry is indeed shot. However, I did get a little surprise:
The hard drive works! I'm not sure how reliable it's going to be, so I'll probably still replace it at some point. But still, aside from some very fixable display issues, this CC lives!
So from here, things are going to get tricky: One CC apparently has non-functional degaussing circuitry on its analogue board but otherwise works, and the other apparently has a cold solder joint on the PCB that sits on the end of the neck of the CRT but otherwise works. So it sounds like what I should do is either find and re-solder the joint, or possibly just swap the PCB from the back of the working one's CRT. What I'll probably do is first try re-soldering, and swap the PCBs only if that doesn't work. Alternately, I could just take the analogue board from School and pair it with Crack's display. In fact, I may just do that, since then there would be no soldering required. Either way, it's going to be a fun week.
The hard drive works! I'm not sure how reliable it's going to be, so I'll probably still replace it at some point. But still, aside from some very fixable display issues, this CC lives!
So from here, things are going to get tricky: One CC apparently has non-functional degaussing circuitry on its analogue board but otherwise works, and the other apparently has a cold solder joint on the PCB that sits on the end of the neck of the CRT but otherwise works. So it sounds like what I should do is either find and re-solder the joint, or possibly just swap the PCB from the back of the working one's CRT. What I'll probably do is first try re-soldering, and swap the PCBs only if that doesn't work. Alternately, I could just take the analogue board from School and pair it with Crack's display. In fact, I may just do that, since then there would be no soldering required. Either way, it's going to be a fun week.