jckarter
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This is a great writeup, thanks!
Out of curiosity, do you happen to still have any notes as to what fixes you made led to these improvements? I'm in a similar boat right now trying to revive a battery-bombed IIci, which while nowhere as severely damaged as yours, is still stuck at the "grey screen but no chime or boot" stage. I've been slowly poring over the schematics looking for broken connections but haven't found a smoking gun so far, so having some prior art to look at to help guide my search would be a big help. No worries if you don't remember though.I was turning it on throughout this process to test as I went along. Really satisfying when I got video for the first time, then a bit later after a few more fixes, a chime, and then a few more fixes later a cursor and blinking disk icon.