I finally have my TV powering on again. I bought the main board used so although the TV now comes on I can only see a "No Signal" message. How do I access the setup app. It comes up automatically on a new Vizio TV but this board is used. The user manual gives a good desription of the setup app but nothing about forcing it to come on. Likewise for resetting Factory defaults. It describes how to reset them but only from the on-screen help menu which I can't get to. Anyone know how to do this?
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Vizio e601i-A3 - Has Sound and Display, But No Backlight - Bad Power Supply Board or Bad LED Bulbs ?I was given this TV from my great uncle. He said it just wouldn't turn on one day out of nowhere, replaced the TV, and gave it to me to possibly fix and use for myself.
Upon bringing it home and plugging it up, it showed a standby light.
I powered it on and without a flashlight, the display showed the "V" but the lighting is very dim, but visible.
The screen seems to blackout and stay black, but with a flashlight I can see the display.
With my Playstation 4 connected via HDMI, and running a game I can hear sound.
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vizio e650i-a2 (LWJAOZBP Serial) led backlight flashes then turns off, has video (via flashlight) and audio.
panel: au optronics T650HVN05.4
72 led total on 12 strips, 6 led per strip wired in three groups of 24 (led driver board has three anode and three cathode pins)
link to datasheet: https://datasheetspdf.com/pdf-file/8.../T650HVN05.4/1
Vizio 56.04219.641G (liteon PA-3231-01WN-LF) Power Supply Unit
https://www.shopjimmy.com/vizio-56-0...-power-supply/
Vizio 55.75J01.001G (91.75J10.004G) Main Board... -
So i got this tv from my neighbor, when it wasn't working right for him,, he purchased another tv and gave his old to me.
the color is all outa wack, like the settings have been corupted,
I've already done a firmware search using the wifi connection update from the tv and it didn't find any new update so it's got the most recent version.
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The issue is i can't get into service mode or factory mode, tried resetiing it from user mode and it didn't change anything.
when i bring up the menu and type the pass codes to access either mode the menu disappears... -
Failure Symptom
No picture, just red vertical stripes. Google search shows quite common problem for these recent Vizio M series although red vertical stripe pattern may differ. Some call it "Netflix" boot screen haha.
Where is the short?
Panel has 4x buffer boards. Quickly found the 1/4 panel buffer board with the problem by selectively disconnecting buffer board flex cables.
Having recently fixed another Vizio with similar symptoms that was a shorted ESD diode array ( link ) Probed the ESD diode array but... -
Bug looks like hardware so thought I posted it here. Exact same behavior on 2 different model 4K Vizio TVs running their SmartCast smarttv software. After launching youtube app, press vizio button on remote to return to the smarttv menu, once in awhile, a column of bad pixels will show for few seconds on the left hand side.
It seems the vizio software is reinitializing hardware when returning to the smarttv menu. In general, SmartCast software isn't very good. Also will randomly (relatively infrequent) get no network connection when on wifi and require reboot....