Satellite Pro A100 (PSAACE) - Display is not working

Hi all,
Got a problem that's confused me.
A few weeks ago my very old Sat Pro a100 (PSAACE) started to refuse to display anything on the screen.
This is from boot, i.e I press the power button from cold, the system whirls and fan goes both nothing appears on the screen.
I left the laptop alone and noticed it popped up on my network, so I remote desktop connected in and everything was working, but still no display on the actually laptop.
Thinking it might be a wierd setup I started Pressing Fn + F5 to swap between displays, at this point I managed to get a display back on the laptop screen.
However on next boot it did the same, this went on for a few days with me pressing Fn+F5 to get a display.
Then the Fn+F5 stopped working, I could still remote desktop in and use the laptop but I couldn't get anything to display.
In windows the ATI Mobility 1400 had disappeared from Device Manager.
I figured the VGA controller board had blown so ordered a new one.
I have now fitted this, and it hasn't resolved the issue. The Fn+F5 workaround is working sometimes, but gives a very weird display looking like corrupted fonts etc
*However if I do a screen grab of this and view on another PC the fonts and screen appear normal!!*
The Mobility 1400 is now recognised by Windows but still nothing on the display at either during POST, boot or Windows.
Fearing BIOS corruption I re flashed with the 6.00 official BIOS.
All in all the machine works great, just no display or by pressing Fn+F5 I can sometimes get the +corrupted display+.
Lastly I've hooked on an external display, at no time do i get any display on it regardless of Fn+F5, or windows, POST etc..
Any thoughts? Would a faulty LCD/FL cable cause these type of problems? or even a faulty inverter board? or since I have no external display am I looking at a main board fault?
Happy to carry out any further tests anyone can think of.....
thanks in advanced for the help
Richard

Hi,
you are correct I see nothing on external monitor, regardless of Fn+F5.
I can boot the machine and log into it remotely though remote desktop, vnc etc once in I can use the machine as normal just without a screen.
On the occasion when Fn+F5 does bring back a picture, its very distorted - almost to the point of corrupt. However a screen grab of that and then viewed on another machine shows the capture to be perfect.
So the fault lies somewhere between what the main board and the screen.
As I noted previously this laptop has a seperate VGA controller card which I have replaced with a know working one.
I have no replaced the RAM, and CPU on the off chance. The only thing I dont have is a new mainboard lol
Still no different.
any thoughts?

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