Vizio E321VL Amber light of death

[DJspeck]

Hi All,

I have the awesome amber light of death on a Vizio E321VL. I had a guy who was gonna fix it, kept my TV for 6 months (I wrote it off as a gonner) and just recently popped up and said he replaced some bad caps but it still won't work. In the picture I wonder if he missed one. Let me know if this is a bad cap in the cluster of three on the right or something else.

[heavymachines]

Re: Vizio E321VL Amber light of death

check for main voltage outputs on power board....then check voltage regulators on mainboard very common problem with vizio not an expert like master budm or tom66 but that where i would start....


check for stby too

[drpj23]

Re: Vizio E321VL Amber light of death

If you are meaning the component closest to the transformer, then that is an inductor.

[DJspeck]

Re: Vizio E321VL Amber light of death

I take it an inductor is supposed to look like that then. I really wasn't sure. Thanks drpj23.

To heavymachines, the guy who did my caps said the voltage was good but he had no explanation of why it would not come back on.

I'm sure he didn't read this forum because it didn't take me too long to find the thread about the whole eeprom replacement. Now I am on the hunt to have this done so I can watch a TV that I only got 2 months out of so far. I really wanted to double check the first guys work.

Thanks for the insight.

[ealequi]

Re: Vizio E321VL Amber light of death

This is a very common problem with this type of board. you need to change the eeprom that is ontheside of the white square. remember, it need to be program. You can get one already program on ebay for about 25.00