Defective Matrix 75 panels?

I’m really pissed at myself for not reporting this right when I got my order. I guess I placed it aside to contact support and just let life get in the way. I’m hoping this is a known issue or something.

Here’s an image of what I’m talking about manifesting in roughly the same spot on both panels it’s 2x panels stacked vertically), and another one showing how even though it’s always in the same spot it doesn’t always manifest the same way, including the upper panel sometimes displaying just fine.

Does anyone have any idea what the issue is, or did I somehow receive 2 defective panels?

EDIT - Since I already created this topic: please someone for the love of god help me install a freaking library in Thonny before I throw my laptop through the window. I’m trying to install 3 libraries: interstate75, mqtt_as, and uasyncio. However I can’t find a single one of them in the package manager, and when I try using mip I just get constant errors even when typing exactly what the documentation says. I’m going insane. Error I get pasted below.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Make sure your using the latest version of Thonny. There “was” a problem with the package manager not finding anything.
I don’t remember having to install the interstste75 library? What UF2 file is your i75 flashed with?

I just reflashed the newest .5 beta with filesystem version. It’s for this project: GitHub - digitalurban/Interstate75W_MQTT_Scroller: Micropython text scroller for the Interstate75W Pi PicoW board with a Hub75 matrix

Jesus I remember now why I put this thing in the corner. 1/2 the examples won’t run, the ones that do are for freaking tiny panels apparently and there’s barely any documentation on simple shit like how to set what size of panel(s) one is using.

Some editing will be needed in the examples depending on “your” setup. I have two 64 x 32 setup stacked for 64 x 64. No WIFI on mine, it’s one of the first model of i75’s. RP2040.

I went by this,
interstate75/docs/README.md at main · pimoroni/interstate75

from here,
Getting Started with Interstate 75

That glitching looks like the kind of thing that’s caused by using very high clock speeds - might be worth trying the following to dial it down a bit?

import machine

machine.freq(200_000_000)