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OK as I think some more about those SOP 44 chips, maybe they are simply the buffer for music and not the display. In any case anyone knowing anything about the tech. innards of this thing, please help!

The system RAM contains not just the audio buffers, but the Linux kernel and player software. If it were bust enough to mess up the display, there's almost no way it'd be intact enough to run the player software without endless crashing. Having said that, I'm no hardware expert, but it certainly sounds like the problem is in the display module itself or its connector to the motherboard.

Peter