The lesson learned in all this is always check your solder jobs and circuits. A couple of the errors that we came across were because of solder issues.
Even a sliver of solder ended up throwing off our errors.
Big thanks to Matt for getting my CPS2 Multi up and running! This community is...
Matt graciously offered to install my DigiAV on my CPS2 and I was watching and observing (and learning) every step of the way.
It powered up fine the first time and he is correct that it was the color issue, but we're puzzled on how the BGSA5 chip died (or if its even possible to kill that chip)