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Update: No magic smoke found yet, looks fairly pristine. Found a tiny bit of yellow-orange goo near the HDD, but nowhere else. Noticed that J1 was set to pins 1-2 vs 2-3 even though this seems to have the Intel N80C286-12. snapped a pic for reference.

No such luck on the VGA output either it seems, Following the original manual flowcharts seems to either point to a display issue(which seems less likely) or "replacing the system board" Seems like it's time to take things apart and check for evidence of magic smoke. Thanks for the help so far!

Went ahead and removed the battery after I verified the AC adapter was providing the correct values on each pin. I got a green light on the power indicator on the case after the initial flash of the keyboard lights. No output on the built-in screen even when adjusting the contrast and...

Greetings everyone, Definitely late to this party, but I'm revisiting my Compaq SLT 286 that was gifted to me by a mentor in high school. I started poking around years ago but ran out of time to work on it then. I love this thing's look and want to get it running. I'm not quite sure where to...