Hello, Firstly, can I just add that before anyone get's too technical I'm a relatively handy person but no expert 'like yourselves' So if anyone would like to help please bare this in mind.. 
My Mother and Father-in-law have a 50" LG Plasma tv, model number LG50PC1D. It went off a little while ago and so they bought a new one, I asked if I could have this to try and fix and heh presto.. here we are!
The tv had a type of crystal pattern when turning on and the snow effect was flashing on and off and it had vertical lines randomly placing themselves on the screen.. I opened the back up and found the powerboard to have 9 caps which were blown, at that point I got the feeling it was a cheap repair
.. However! After replacing all the bad caps with the more expensive Panasonic type, I switched the TV on and there was no change whatsoever..
At which point I was a little stumped.. After a bit of research 'mainly from this site' I tracked it down to what I believed was the Y sustain board. After being a complete idiot
I bought a 2nd hand one from a reputable electronics dealer on ebay. I have just fitted it tonight and the crystal problem along with the flashing snow has gone, but , the vertical line which moves only 3 segments from left to right then back to the start again is more prominant. I have tried adusting the ramp up/down and this made the picture certainly more clear but did not change the vertical line.
After reading a little more about the Tv I have, some people say that because the X sustain board get's power from the Y it may have blown something in the X ?? Normally this is not the case as the X is totally seperate from the Y but not on this model TV..
Any ideas??
Please rember, if you ask me to try anything I'm a novice compared to you!

My Mother and Father-in-law have a 50" LG Plasma tv, model number LG50PC1D. It went off a little while ago and so they bought a new one, I asked if I could have this to try and fix and heh presto.. here we are!
The tv had a type of crystal pattern when turning on and the snow effect was flashing on and off and it had vertical lines randomly placing themselves on the screen.. I opened the back up and found the powerboard to have 9 caps which were blown, at that point I got the feeling it was a cheap repair

At which point I was a little stumped.. After a bit of research 'mainly from this site' I tracked it down to what I believed was the Y sustain board. After being a complete idiot

After reading a little more about the Tv I have, some people say that because the X sustain board get's power from the Y it may have blown something in the X ?? Normally this is not the case as the X is totally seperate from the Y but not on this model TV..
Any ideas??

Please rember, if you ask me to try anything I'm a novice compared to you!
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