G4 display behaving oddly.....

The display on my 933 ghz G4 is playing up, the machine turns on, the screen immediately turns white then a black ink stain effect takes over, until the screen turns black. I used Target mode to boot the hard drive into my G3, that worked ok, so the question is, is the display dead, or maybe just a cable ?
Thanks in advance....

diagnosed as a dead logic board, oh well

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