I guess I misspoke. I am familiar with what you are talking about. Oh I see I did say mobo, my bad. Yes, you are correct, the data gets shipped to its driver chip on the display board. Oddly enough it seems to be getting worse. I thought maybe letting it sit overnight and have the battery voltage "settle in" would hopefully stabilize the boot process but it is just doing the line to the screen and sometimes chars and sometimes just a cursor in the upper left corner. Pressing bank buttons or cursor buttons only spins it out worse. Does that sound symptomatic of the driver chip to you or something more sinister on the motherboard? Thanks for clarifying for everyone and sorry about the typo.