Tempest - is this video collapse?

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Got my Tempest Tuesday, and while troubleshooting the PCB's, what you see in the pic started happening. It used to flicker in and out of this state on occasion, but now seems to be staying like that.

Does this mean monitor rebuild already? I have a big blue coming in the mail and will try that before anything else but was just wondering.

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looks like a boardset issue

Possible. Sometimes you get weird things when DAC's fail.

But I've also seen stuff like this that was definitely monitor-related. One is in my project box because I haven't had time to figure out what was causing it...
 
I have a feeling it might be related to the edge connector.. A 2nd main board i have was doing the same thing, and when i touched the edge connector wires i heard some new electrical contact being made and the screen improved.
 
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