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Been reading around here at the badcaps forums, and I'm finding these Westinghouse displays really don't like people. :P Anyway.. this Westinghouse isn't just a computer monitor (though it was used that way for 2 years), but an HDTV as well.
When the screen died a couple weeks ago a did some research and found the solution here on Badcaps. Turns out it was a bad capacitor in the PSU.
Being a novice to electronics (and that being my first attempt at fixing them), I was encouraged! ... Until another problem arose.
An hour or so into using the screen after the fix I think something went wrong with the tuner. I was downstairs at the time when it happened.. when I left it was having trouble with softness (alotta pixelation in the screen), but it was displaying fairly decently. I figured it was the cable box giving a bad signal or something. I'd already ordered a new screen for my computer, so the 19" Westinghouse was simply being used as a TV now.
When I went back upstairs, the colors on the screen and gone completely weird... everything was a gross shade of green or orange, there were bars of stuck pixels across the screen up to an inch thick, and the sound seemed distorted. The cable jack coming out of the TV was warm to the touch (I immediately unplugged the cable and power), and tapping/hitting the side of the screen would cause the bars to get unstuck, but create new bars of stuck pixels (all still in the gross shades of green and orange).
I seem to remember seeing a video of the problem here on the Badcaps forums somewhere, but I couldn't find it. I turned here first because of my previous success with the PSU. I remembered reading something about a fuse here as well, but I don't know if that could be the problem or not... I don't even know if this can be repaired (especially by a novice like me ;]).
I've taken pictures, but it seems my camera does NOT like close-proximity shots... so they're blurry. But they might help to give you a general idea of what I'm dealing with:
Tuner Top: http://i42.tinypic.com/5d09xe.jpg
Tuner Bottom: http://i40.tinypic.com/hsp8d1.jpg
PSU Top: http://i40.tinypic.com/120l5rp.jpg
PSU Bottom: http://i43.tinypic.com/14e84cx.jpg
There's also some circuitry on the back of the LCD panel, but It's really long so I couldn't get a decent shot of it. I honestly doubt the problem would be there anyhow.
So... any ideas? ^^;
Been reading around here at the badcaps forums, and I'm finding these Westinghouse displays really don't like people. :P Anyway.. this Westinghouse isn't just a computer monitor (though it was used that way for 2 years), but an HDTV as well.
When the screen died a couple weeks ago a did some research and found the solution here on Badcaps. Turns out it was a bad capacitor in the PSU.
Being a novice to electronics (and that being my first attempt at fixing them), I was encouraged! ... Until another problem arose. An hour or so into using the screen after the fix I think something went wrong with the tuner. I was downstairs at the time when it happened.. when I left it was having trouble with softness (alotta pixelation in the screen), but it was displaying fairly decently. I figured it was the cable box giving a bad signal or something. I'd already ordered a new screen for my computer, so the 19" Westinghouse was simply being used as a TV now.
When I went back upstairs, the colors on the screen and gone completely weird... everything was a gross shade of green or orange, there were bars of stuck pixels across the screen up to an inch thick, and the sound seemed distorted. The cable jack coming out of the TV was warm to the touch (I immediately unplugged the cable and power), and tapping/hitting the side of the screen would cause the bars to get unstuck, but create new bars of stuck pixels (all still in the gross shades of green and orange).
I seem to remember seeing a video of the problem here on the Badcaps forums somewhere, but I couldn't find it. I turned here first because of my previous success with the PSU.
I remembered reading something about a fuse here as well, but I don't know if that could be the problem or not... I don't even know if this can be repaired (especially by a novice like me ;]).I've taken pictures, but it seems my camera does NOT like close-proximity shots... so they're blurry. But they might help to give you a general idea of what I'm dealing with:
Tuner Top: http://i42.tinypic.com/5d09xe.jpg
Tuner Bottom: http://i40.tinypic.com/hsp8d1.jpg
PSU Top: http://i40.tinypic.com/120l5rp.jpg
PSU Bottom: http://i43.tinypic.com/14e84cx.jpg
There's also some circuitry on the back of the LCD panel, but It's really long so I couldn't get a decent shot of it. I honestly doubt the problem would be there anyhow.
So... any ideas? ^^;
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