Hi everyone,
I know this is an old TV that many will probably think is not worth saving, but I love it and can't afford something new! It has developed a fault though that I can't seem to fix and would love for someone to help me.
First off, I am more than familiar with the bad caps virus these sets get, as I have had to replace them once before as the TV would not turn on.
This is a new and different fault though that I can't really find any information about. The TV turns on absolutely fine, however sometimes it will just restart itself. It started happening a few weeks ago, and tends to only be when watching the inbuilt freeview.
When this happens, it shows several different signs before hand. Sometimes the image and sound just freeze, and it will restart then work again. Sometimes the image starts to get a bit distorted with white pixels flying around, progressively gets worse for about 5 seconds, then it will restart and come back on fine. Other times the sound starts to deteriorate, then restart.
Every time it restarts, there is one relay click, the screen goes black, after about half a second the image flashes back on the screen and quickly fades to black, then another click while the red light flashes, then after about 4 seconds the TV is fully back on.
It tends to do this after about 10 minutes of being on from cold, it will do it 3-4 times within the next 10 minutes, then it will stay on fine the rest of the day, but it may do it once or twice again.
This has only happened 2 times when using PS3 on HDMI, but happens almost every time when watching the DTV.
Just incase my replacement caps went bad, I have replaced them again but this did not fix the problem.
I hope someone can help me!
Many thanks,
Graham
I know this is an old TV that many will probably think is not worth saving, but I love it and can't afford something new! It has developed a fault though that I can't seem to fix and would love for someone to help me.
First off, I am more than familiar with the bad caps virus these sets get, as I have had to replace them once before as the TV would not turn on.
This is a new and different fault though that I can't really find any information about. The TV turns on absolutely fine, however sometimes it will just restart itself. It started happening a few weeks ago, and tends to only be when watching the inbuilt freeview.
When this happens, it shows several different signs before hand. Sometimes the image and sound just freeze, and it will restart then work again. Sometimes the image starts to get a bit distorted with white pixels flying around, progressively gets worse for about 5 seconds, then it will restart and come back on fine. Other times the sound starts to deteriorate, then restart.
Every time it restarts, there is one relay click, the screen goes black, after about half a second the image flashes back on the screen and quickly fades to black, then another click while the red light flashes, then after about 4 seconds the TV is fully back on.
It tends to do this after about 10 minutes of being on from cold, it will do it 3-4 times within the next 10 minutes, then it will stay on fine the rest of the day, but it may do it once or twice again.
This has only happened 2 times when using PS3 on HDMI, but happens almost every time when watching the DTV.
Just incase my replacement caps went bad, I have replaced them again but this did not fix the problem.
I hope someone can help me!
Many thanks,
Graham
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