AXPpci 33 (NoName) diagnostics

Tue Jan 31 04:40:06 UTC 2012

Has anybody built/seen/heard of the "LED Display Circuit" that displays POST codes via the "LED Display Connector (J6)" described in section 2.2.2.10 (page 2-11) of the 
"Digital AXPpci 33 Alpha PC Motherboard OEM Design Guide", Order Number: EK–AXPCI–DG [http://www.alphalinux.org/docs/pci33dg.pdf]?
I have a dead one; For a while it would start to POST, then freeze. Subsequent boots would do nothing till ~1 day later; repeat. Doesn't seem to do much of anything lately.
Tried everything - no cards/drives/cache, swapped CPU & RAM, reseated ROM, yanked RTC; no change in behavior. Do these suffer "Multia Heat Death" too?
Anybody have any other ideas?