Insignia NS LCD42HD-09 no picture

[darthfaderz]

dad bought this thing from best buy brand new. but no extended warranties..etc..

Worked fine for over 1.5 years...then during electrical storm, was not on surge protector..screen went black and never came back.

Recently moved and I offered to take it under the guise that a repair person he knew said that it was likely a fuse on the board that went bad, he also took it to a repair shop which said same thing but he didnt want to pay labor+parts which were going to be more than the TV was new when he got it to fix so he replaced it and shoved it in the closet until I got it.

Skip ahead...I have it...pop back off..can't find said fuse to replace, but find a cheap power board to swap with on ebay. Get it...tv does same thing. Light comes on, turns blue and holds with no sound or image. when i shut it off the LED blinks 14 or 15 times; which I have later learned is a hardware failure.

So, its sat in the other room for close to 3 months now. I am uncertain if its the main board but posts like this and others lead me to believe it is so...or the backlight panels..or TCON, and I pulled the pin connectors off to test voltage going to main board, then realized I was uncertain which points I should look at to determine if this issue is same as the OP of this thread...

any help is appreciated.

Reference of similar situation : https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showth...=NS-LCD42HD-09

[Dgtech]

Re: Insignia NS LCD42HD-09 no picture

I would lean towards changing the main board. You can check regulators on it but if its a fcried processor, you'll probably never know unless you get a service manual that tells you so.