Re: Vizio m550nv

Ah, thanks for replying Agent and Bud. Looks like you replied right before me heh. When it comes to what meter I buy, is there anything in particular I should make sure it tests for? I think the best one they have here at the local Walmart is only like 30$. Plus I think it has alot of auto functions that might help someone like me?

I will go ahead and start getting some pics together, I will hopefully have everything together here in a few hours. I will still keep an eye out here in case you mention anything else I might need.

Thanks...

Re: Vizio m550nv

OK, so I know I may be asking quite a bit from someone to try and guess based on what I have presented so far. So... I'm thinking I WILL go ahead and pick up a tester and maybe someone from here could walk me through what to do?

I have been building PC's for about 10 years now so I'm not completely unfamiliar with hardware like this, as far as testing voltages though, the only part I have ever used a meter on was when I replaced the laser module on my old Xbox lol...

Anyways though, I'm sure if someone explained where I needed to...

Hello,

I Received this TV from a family member that had it for maybe 2-3 years. From what I was told, the TV would periodically go to a black screen, or shut off as they would say. But, from what I have read about the TV automatically doing app and firmware updates, that it sounds like they may have mistaken updates to the set for shut downs.

Either way, the set now has nothing but a black screen when turned on... The logo will alternate between orange and white for maybe 30 secs, (warming up the backlight?) then stay solid orange. After that, hitting the power button...

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Hello, name is Jason. Came across this site while looking for answers about a TV I'm having trouble with.