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[Drocker]

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Hi Norman, read your introduction and I'm thinking maybe you could help me out with certain information!

I have a plasma 42inches TC-p42gt25, I have had it for 3 years. The problem started last week.....the power will turn on but the picture and the sound refused to work. After 5 to 10 times of turning it on and off.....the picture and sound comes on. It's taking me almost 20 times now of on and off before I could watch TV. With little technical know-how that I possessed, I figured out that maybe it's the Main Board panel that needs to be fixed.

I need your expertise as I'm thinking maybe you could tell me what actually might need to be changed!

I live in Saskatoon, Canada.

Please let me know what your suggestion is?


Thanks
Elias

[Drocker]

Re: Oh...what the hey.....

Since everyone is being so social, I guess I can adapt...

Started in electronics doing ATC maintenance in the USMC for 10 years. Did four and half years with a company out in Oregon. Did a bit of traveling there.

I like tinkering with anything electronic. Mostly the hardware side. Jack of all trades, master of none. First PC was a 386 in '91-ish. (too many parties cause CRS ) Built first PC in 99-ish based on the ol' VP6. Thanks to a lot of help, I have two now.

Hoping to relocate to the Leesburg, VA area soon. I need gainful employment. ND is toooooo quiet. :o

Gee...other than that, I'm just you average mid-thirties guy with too many ideas and not enough money.

Hi Strecth, read your introduction and I'm thinking maybe you could help me out with certain information!

I have a plasma 42inches TC-p42gt25, I have had it for 3 years. The problem started last week.....the power will turn on but the picture and the sound refused to work. After 5 to 10 times of turning it on and off.....the picture and sound comes on. It's taking me almost 20 times now of on and off before I could watch TV. With little technical know-how that I possessed, I figured out that maybe it's the Main Board panel that needs to be fixed.

I need your expertise as I'm thinking maybe you could tell me what actually might need to be changed!

I live in Saskatoon, Canada.

Please let me know what your suggestion is?


Thanks
Elias

[dickyltz]

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello everyone, I'm dickyltz residing in Coldwater, MI. Since this is my first time joining a forum, I would like to ask for your patience, and tolerance I have always had an interest in electronics, troubleshooting and repair. Worked as a bench tech for a decade or so, with a few credit hours of community college. Never good at math though... I leave that up to calculators, they seem to have no trouble at all I have since moved into industrial maintenance... (Working in a T.V. shop around here is a little, or not at all advertised weight loss program) Still find myself wrenching on a thing or two, from time to time. I hope I can provide some insight, as I also have questions. Thank you for welcoming me into your community!

[blitznck]

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Hello all, well my start in electronics was tearing a tv apart to see what made it tick. I started into computers with a C64 and when that stopped working I learnt how to fix them. Next I was on a Apple 2e and an 8088 processor machine. I was just happy with that as long as it ran word perfect. Later on I progressed to a 80286 then a Pentium based machine. I love building computers and repairing them as well as smart phones and tablets. I also enjoy programming them when I am not rebuilding them.

[charlie3]

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Thank you for the warm greeting, I'm charlie glade to be aboard

[Pauldub]

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Well Ladies & Gentlemen, (mostly guys maybe??)

My name is Paul. I am a 55 year old male from Tipperary in Ireland who has had an interest in electronics since I was 12 or thereabouts. I am looking forward to posting on this forum and getting some much needed assistance after a disastrous day whereby my Samsung 32" HDTV blew up. I had it installed only 24 hours in my brand spanking new Log Cabin. It was a cold night last night but I didn't switch it on until 13.30 when the sun was well up. There was a lot of condensation on the windows and doors so I presume that there was probably condensation on the circuitry also. That's it for now. Chat later hopefully.

Best,

Paul.

[kdgdad]

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Hello all. My name is Brian. Im fairly new to working on TVs but not new to electronics. From what i can see so far these forums are exactly what i have needed and look forward to interacting with everyone.

[Dagregsta7]

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Hi all I'm an 18 year old repairman for TVs and Im an eBay salesman. Ive had this hobby for 2 years now. I have used your forum a few times to assist some troubleshooting for my projects but never taken the time to make a real account so here it is I guess. Just your average kid, nothing special. Graduated high school and I'm just starting college, still consider myself an amateur so bear with me. Successfully repaired probably 10 projects. Thanks guys.

-Greg

[Indirajayan]

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Hello Everyone! Happy to join this wonderful forum.Thanks to creators.

[lawstudent]

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

As this is a brand new forum, I thought I'd open up a thread to encourage new members to introduce themselves a bit.. now hey.. let's not get too personal.. ok ?

And if you wouldn't mind to keep this thread \"clean\" let's try to keep the the chitchat (i.e. even the welcome to the board replies) to a minimum or this thread may get to 100 pages fast

So I'll start things off :

My name is petabyte and I'm a forum junkie. :oops: I've been off the wagon for a number of years and countless times I've tried to stop but it's useless.. I need to feed my learning addiction.. :!:

Now just a bit about me.. I'm a fairly secretive guy in terms of privacy on the net.. especially when the things you write are visable to anyone with a net connection. But I love to share the info and knowledge I have, so that's why I'm here, to share and learn.

my formal education is that of an electronic engineer and I held a field service position with a firm for over 20 years.. that job is gone now along with company car and laptop <cry> oh well..
So needless to say (but i will) I've always tinkered with things.. yes, a hacker.. (too bad that term lost it's orignal meaning) a hardware hacker mostly.. hacking fixes in whatever I find that breaks.. (except for cars, I have friends for that) I got started a little late into the computers, my first box was an ibm pc-xt with a whopping 10meg HD,blazing fast 4.66mhz 8086 processor, 640k mem running dos 3.3.. man was I cool back then.. :roll: nevermind..

so these days, I'm forced to be a software guy as well.. as I fix pc's for friends and that usually means cleaning virus/trojan/adware and reinstalling OS's.. yeah hardware breaks but not that often :cry: so as a result, I keep up on my software knowledge by visting a few security forums.. and trolling around a few hardware forums as well.

now I found this place from a thread at motherboards.org/forums
where I've been hanging out lately.. it's a nice friendly place with some pretty smart people.. mostly, of course, it's about mobo's.. So this person mentioned badcaps.net and I recalled reading articles a year or so ago about the faulty caps and was curious as to what you guys were up to.. and I said \"w00t.. they have a forum\"..

and so now.. you're stuck with me :P

so what's your story ? come on.. give it up..

I am a 60 year old law student - following a late passion for the law.

[lawstudent]

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

I am a 60 year old law student - following a late passion for the law.

What does this site have to offer me, or what can I contribute?

[keeney123]

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

I started out taking a computer program a Pinellas Vocational Technical Institute in 1975 after I had drop out of high school, many military instructors. After I received my GED I went on to graduate Springfield Technical Community College in 1980. I went on to work both in research and production environment until 1994, when surface mounting started in a big way. I have worked with tubes, transistor, ICs, microprocessors, nanoprocessors. Working on equipment such as teletype, sign makers, sub-micro particle analyzers and telecommunication interconnect. The thing I have learned is that the more one thinks they know the more they find they need to learn.

[paa]

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My name is Ike and I'm pursuing a course in Networking. I also own a computer and flat screen repair shop and will be ready to contribute my quota when the need arises. Thanks for your time in reading my mail.

[mani300]

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Hi everyone ! i'm just a french guy who doesn't speak english very well, and i'm in trouble with my lcd display.
I find this website after several hours of search and i hope i will find the solution here !
Otherwise i'm 26 years old, i live in south of France (Toulouse) and i work in chemical field.
I practicing lots of sports like Track and field (100m, long jump) and recently Crossfit

Thank you for yours future answers !

See you !

[krystys]

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Hi! My name is Chris and i'm from Romania. I've been searching for a place to get assistance for a looong time, and i really hope this is it. I am a beginner in the computer repair business in the chip level. That's where trouble begins.
I hope that you can help me and that i can help you!
Thanks!

[DMay]

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello all

[mgs1098]

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

New here. Hoping to get this tv fixed in due time.
Alan

[davey4eva]

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Newbie here! Im Davey, engaged with a baby girl on the way

i stumbled upon this site after much searching on Google for a decent place to get advice etc for TV repairs. As i hobby i tinker with electrical repair, consoles, computers, tvs.
I am planning on doing an electrical engineering course at college next year so that i can eventually start my own business.
I did join with the intention of posting regarding a particular problem i am having with a set right now.... but i see restrictions are in place

[jeff_225bw]

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Hi, I'm new to the forum. I own a Syncmaster 225bw that is having problems and I thought I might get some help with it here.

Thanks,

Jeff

[leggot]

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi,

I am new and I am hoping to fix a Samsung s24b350 that has issues with snowy picture and vertical lines on the screen