Philips 42PFK6589/12 blurred colors and picture upside down.

[Trtu]

Hi all,

Got a three year old Philips 42PFK6589/12.
The previous owner said that one day TV went black, after couple months he turned TV on and got this blurred/inverted picture.

I think blurred colors is caused by bad tcon.

Picture is half black/half white If I remove left LVSD from tcon.
Picture is half blurred/half white if I remove right LVSD from tcon.

What causes upside down picture?
TV has latest firmware.
For some reason the factory reset from the menu does not work.

[Davi.p]

Re: Philips 42PFK6589/12 blurred colors and picture upside down.

It looks like the main board have a messed up configuration, especially panel type and flip function or tv model, there's a remote possibility of ruined content of tcon eeprom. go into the sam menu and put in option codes from the back cover of the tv.

[Trtu]

Re: Philips 42PFK6589/12 blurred colors and picture upside down.

It looks like the main board have a messed up configuration, especially panel type and flip function or tv model, there's a remote possibility of ruined content of tcon eeprom. go into the sam menu and put in option codes from the back cover of the tv.

Yes, you are right. Six 3-digit codes are messed up (picture 1).
I changed thme to the correct ones (picture 2), but I can not save the changes.

From the service manual:

How to Store SAM Settings
To store the settings changed in SAM mode (except the
RGB Align settings), leave the top level SAM menu by using
the POWER button on the remote control transmitter or the
television set. The mentioned exceptions must be stored
separately via the STORE button.

So, I am in the top level menu, (like in the picture 2), I push the power button and TV just turns off. After turning on nothing changed. I do not have STORE button on the remote, so tried every button to save changes, but no result.

[vinceroger69]

Re: Philips 42PFK6589/12 blurred colors and picture upside down.

is your remote a original one of aftermarket one i would of guessed its the ok button on your remote control uless there is a service remote control like lg tvs that need one

[Trtu]

Re: Philips 42PFK6589/12 blurred colors and picture upside down.

is your remote a original one of aftermarket one

Original, and the OK button does not save changes.

[dick_barton]

Re: Philips 42PFK6589/12 blurred colors and picture upside down.

Can you just do a firmware update to correct it or not?

http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/c...n=42PFK6589/12

[Trtu]

Re: Philips 42PFK6589/12 blurred colors and picture upside down.

Can you just do a firmware update to correct it or not?

http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/c...n=42PFK6589/12

Thank you for your advice. Did that with USB stick, but no luck.

[dick_barton]

Re: Philips 42PFK6589/12 blurred colors and picture upside down.

Can you do a factory reset?


http://tips-trick-electronic.blogspo...vice-mode.html

[Davi.p]

Re: Philips 42PFK6589/12 blurred colors and picture upside down.

Try to use Store item if not work change mainboard eeprom and retry..

[Trtu]

Re: Philips 42PFK6589/12 blurred colors and picture upside down.

Thank you everyone for help.

TV working again.

What I did?

From factory mode changed panel id to the correct one and changed panel flip to off. There were some other incorrect entries what I changed.

[geeko]

Re: Philips 42PFK6589/12 blurred colors and picture upside down.

Hi all,

Dear group mates I have the same TV, it's not turning on, only red colour indicator and Philips word lighted, I checked all voltages, but all are normal, only one thing interesting that CPU get hot, client said that TV was working normal then he turns it off then he can't turn it on again, Any advice?