Now that other work requests has lightened up a bit, I can take another look at this soon. I don't recall any chips getting hot to the touch at all when I had it powered up before. I can certainly check for voltage across the ICs. (Just have to look up their pinouts to know which pin or pins on them contain Vcc). The original PSU wall wart smells cooked but I couldn't see anything obviously wrong with it visually. But you plug it in and you get nothing on the output from it. Fuse inside was still good though...

I really didn't want to take this AES on, but the client insisted I take a look a look at it. So yeah I'm green around the AES and Neo hardware in general.