Samsung LNT4671F 4671FX/XAA Horizontal picture skipping...then I screwed up
The other night I saw this TV for free on a local website. It was close, so I picked it up.
The symptoms were a picture that was horizontally choppy and jumpy. On initial start-up the channel would display in the corner. Everything looks fine until the picture starts...then it goes horizontally jumpy, menu and all. It looked like the TV was confused upon the horizontal placement of the picture on the screen, like the horizontal hold being off on an old CRT set, but completely unstable and unpredictable. Sometimes the screen is split in multiple horizontal layers that randomly and constantly change.
Upon the background picture going black, like during a gap between programming or by disconnecting the coax from the "megatenna" the menu was stable 99% of the time, with only an occasional glitch in its placement. The picture would stabilize for a few seconds with a less intense or darker picture on the screen, like before "Just For Us" cuts to the show name the picture is "confused". When it goes to black and the show name drops in on the right in yellow it shows perfectly.
Unfortunately the operative word here is "WAS".
I have no idea what this shart for brains was thinking, but after a little research I began pressing on the cable connections at the t-con board. I thought I noticed a change in the picture stability, so I lifted the lock bar at the left ribbon cable and pulled it out.....with the TV still on.
If that weren't bad enough I stuck it right back in with it powered up. I saw an arc on the strip....and wound up with the descriptors above.....and a solarized screen. A little later and now there's no picture. Backlights on, black screen.
Unplugging that infernal thing with the unit on was completely stupid. Messing with it further earns me the title of shart for brains of the day, at least.
I'm just wondering if I put the final toasting on a t-con board that was already bad to begin with, or did I just fry it in to oblivion? Thanks for helping the "Technologically Challenged"!
The symptoms were a picture that was horizontally choppy and jumpy. On initial start-up the channel would display in the corner. Everything looks fine until the picture starts...then it goes horizontally jumpy, menu and all. It looked like the TV was confused upon the horizontal placement of the picture on the screen, like the horizontal hold being off on an old CRT set, but completely unstable and unpredictable. Sometimes the screen is split in multiple horizontal layers that randomly and constantly change.
Upon the background picture going black, like during a gap between programming or by disconnecting the coax from the "megatenna" the menu was stable 99% of the time, with only an occasional glitch in its placement. The picture would stabilize for a few seconds with a less intense or darker picture on the screen, like before "Just For Us" cuts to the show name the picture is "confused". When it goes to black and the show name drops in on the right in yellow it shows perfectly.
Unfortunately the operative word here is "WAS".
I have no idea what this shart for brains was thinking, but after a little research I began pressing on the cable connections at the t-con board. I thought I noticed a change in the picture stability, so I lifted the lock bar at the left ribbon cable and pulled it out.....with the TV still on.
If that weren't bad enough I stuck it right back in with it powered up. I saw an arc on the strip....and wound up with the descriptors above.....and a solarized screen. A little later and now there's no picture. Backlights on, black screen.Unplugging that infernal thing with the unit on was completely stupid. Messing with it further earns me the title of shart for brains of the day, at least.
I'm just wondering if I put the final toasting on a t-con board that was already bad to begin with, or did I just fry it in to oblivion? Thanks for helping the "Technologically Challenged"!
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