Try dropping the refresh rate just a little. Worked for my 27" AOC VA panel.

144hz on mine is very prone to this. 120hz only acts up on a fresh power-on. When it’s cold I just set it to dim instead of sleep.

Funny, I’m in the process of selling much of my Computer Reset pickings for cheap, including my 486DX4 100MHz that I ran Mario 64 compiled for DOS on. It ran at a blistering 3 frames per minute.

I’m leaning toward a short somewhere, since you said the PSU starts up with the paperclip but not when plugged in to the board.

Rim that fucking anus.

I’ve used it and dd-wrt back in the day on cheap crashy routers. Also Tomato.

Haven’t tried it in a long time, but have an EAP225 v2 and v3 I’ve been considering slapping openwrt on.