Your not allowed to talk about payment options . Please pm me . <| sep |> I ' m not comfortable with facts and investigation . Way too busy fellating the headlines and raging against cops . Thanks though . <| sep |> You make a shitty troll <| sep |> A normal Friday . <| sep |> Ok , so let me make sure I ' ve got the scenario right . Turn it on , it looks like the first picture and then it degrades to the unreadable over a couple of seconds ? Is it cyclic fades in and out between readable and garbage or does it degrade and not come back ? Here ' s the relevant schematic 1 of 2 . gif . Based on the symptoms , the two most likely candidates I see for shenanigans are the RF Modulator top right and the VICII just to the left . As those blocks aren ' t moving between shots , I think the data is being written to memory correctly but the VICII chip is spazzing out , reversing the colors for a particular character . The part where it degrades is interesting The VICII is supposed to be in sync with the RF modulator . As the raster beam flies across the screen , it drives whatever color is needed for that particular location . If the RF Modulator was the culprit , you wouldn ' t see those reversecolor blocks . A couple experiments to try 1 If you do a soft reboot not a power cycle , does the screen snap back on for a bit or does it stay unusable ? 2 Load a program you ' ll have to do it blind that has some startup sound or music . If you can hear it , the CPU is working fine . This would also be interesting because the VICII generates the DRAM refresh signals a program loading suggests that they are being refreshed and it thinks that it ' s working correctly . I ' d start looking for leaking capacitors at that point . 3 Open up the case and visually inspect the VICIIII # mediaFileMOS 6569 R 3 chtaube 061229 . jpg . Does anything look wrong in that area ? Leaking capacitors , corrosion on the board , etc . You could also try reseating the chip .