vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

[crosstalk]

Hello. I have a vizio m601d-a3r with a sharp panel. Trouble is a few horizontal lines and left side is quite dark. Backlight seems ok. I have tried cleaning/reseating the ribbon cables, but no change. Tab bonds don't seem to affect the picture either.

I am thinking bad panel, but want to get your opinion on whether you have seen this kind of failure with a tcon.

[budm]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

Horizon line like that will be the panel.

[crosstalk]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

Thanks--I was thinking the panel also (gate drivers). I have read the long 70" vizio thread about removing gate drivers on one side. Not sure it applies to this panel, I might pull off the gate driver chip tab on the bottom of the left side just to see what happens.

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

Deffo panel failure. Try removing tabs but doubt it will make it any better.

[crosstalk]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

Thanks again. At least I didn't pay anything for it--I did have to go pick it up though.

[Nick's Tvs]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

Crosstalk
I don't see lines from your picture you posted. Looks like it could be the left side LED strips going out.
If you were to remove the panel, can you see if the left LED strip lights up?

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

Crosstalk
I don't see lines from your picture you posted. Looks like it could be the left side LED strips going out.
If you were to remove the panel, can you see if the left LED strip lights up?

Look closer lol, horizontal as well.

[Nick's Tvs]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

Oh yeah that first picture the white line looks like its part of the commercial but second picture I see what you are talking about.

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

Yeah he did say the Bl seems fine, I presume he meant on that side

[crosstalk]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

Yes--backlight is uniformly illuminating. I was hoping from the original description of the problem that the "darker on the left" description was a backlight problem.

[asot550]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

This is a really old thread, but my panel looks almost exactly the same as yours with the horizontal line in nearly the exact same place. Did you ever figure out if it was the panel or if the gate drivers were causing an issue?

[crosstalk]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

I scrapped it as a bad panel.

[budwich]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

This is a really old thread, but my panel looks almost exactly the same as yours with the horizontal line in nearly the exact same place. Did you ever figure out if it was the panel or if the gate drivers were causing an issue?

Its a "panel issue"... it doesn't matter whither is a gate driver issue or "panel" problem (you threw something at the display, cracked the screen), neither are "fixable"... BUT the panel can be "saved" in these kinds of cases by removing the tabs cables from the failed side. This has been done by a lot of people and lots of thread "post this time period" that "discovered" this "technique". IF you are using the tv for just "normal viewing", odds are that you won't notice the difference between a "saved tab operation" and the original tv display.

[asot550]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

Great, thanks budwich! Time to do some surgery on this guy! Found it in the garbage so if it doesn't work out I'm not out anything but my time.

[asot550]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

For posterity, I was able to get things working again with the tab trick! Here's the steps for anyone that stumbles on this in the future:

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...44&postcount=8

[budwich]

Re: vizio m601d-a3r panel or tcon failure

yep.... Lucky the "scrapper" wasn't scrapped... :-)