Samsung UE32D5500 boot loop
Good day folks. It's been a while now since I've had a boot-looping TV on my hands and I actually had a bit of trouble remembering what you try in such cases 
The board is a BN41-01660b. The first thing I tried was shorting the RESET pin of the unpopulated header near the EEPROM to SDA...I don't think the TV even reacted to that, because it just kept doing what it was doing, displaying the logo and then turning off and so on, so that didn't work. The next thing I did was actually remove the IC (IC901) to read it. I got the code off of it and tried erasing it, but here's the weird part: after erasing the chip, the programmer told me it's still not blank, despite trying it several times. To eliminate this variable, I simply replaced the chip entirely with a blank one. I'm not entirely sure whether it's a 256 or a 512 one, so what I chose was a 512 after some brief research pointing me...the TV did come on just like before, but it didn't solve the issue unfortunately, so the issue is likely with those two larger chips for which I don't have a programmer sadly. I read this is quite a common failure on these boards. I'm not sure which does what. One is a smaller QFN and one looks like what's inside a flash drive.....perhaps that's exactly what it is: a "hard drive" for storage. Either way, it's f**ed
The board is a BN41-01660b. The first thing I tried was shorting the RESET pin of the unpopulated header near the EEPROM to SDA...I don't think the TV even reacted to that, because it just kept doing what it was doing, displaying the logo and then turning off and so on, so that didn't work. The next thing I did was actually remove the IC (IC901) to read it. I got the code off of it and tried erasing it, but here's the weird part: after erasing the chip, the programmer told me it's still not blank, despite trying it several times. To eliminate this variable, I simply replaced the chip entirely with a blank one. I'm not entirely sure whether it's a 256 or a 512 one, so what I chose was a 512 after some brief research pointing me...the TV did come on just like before, but it didn't solve the issue unfortunately, so the issue is likely with those two larger chips for which I don't have a programmer sadly. I read this is quite a common failure on these boards. I'm not sure which does what. One is a smaller QFN and one looks like what's inside a flash drive.....perhaps that's exactly what it is: a "hard drive" for storage. Either way, it's f**ed
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