I picked this up in a lot of tvs the other day, opened it up and everything looks ok inside, so I applied power. Set has standby and tries to turn on with a loud buzzing coming from the upper left corner ymain and buffer. I tried to power it up with the y and x disconnected and it gives me 5 blinks and a startup squeak. Next I reconnected the y and x and disconnected the y buffer board and I am getting the same startup squeak followed by 5 blinks. So my basic search for a service manual turned up nothing I dont suppose you guys have a link? Im supposing there is a jumper that needs to be placed between y and buffer like on the panasonics to isolate?
after looking carefully there is a 1/2" crack in the screen in the upper corner where it was buzzing. Well I guess I have some boards to sell off, any tips on testing samsung buffers before selling them. Btw the control board led did come on for 5 seconds then off for two seconds.
The buffer isn't really a big deal, most are going for less than 20$ Some as low as 10$ with free shipping. Id rather not sell an iffy board than possibly make 10$. But I will do the ohm test just for practice. Ive been avoiding plasmas after the first gave me such fits, but that last Panasonic wasn't too bad and the Panasonic I'm working on now seems to be an easy fix (we'll see when my parts arrive). I got one more Panasonic from that same lot...however when I took the back off apparently the guy I got it from switched out the guts from another model. Its a real mess I'm hoping I will be able to put it back together correctly and get it running again. That one deserves its own thread of what not to do.
everytime I go in Costco my son points at the 83" lcd and says Dad I cant wait for those to start dieing so we can get one for free... I guess they have begun to die already, kind of sad when you think of the short lifespan these tvs seem to have.
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