Sony KDL-52XBR4, manf date July 2007

Originally this was going to be a help thread, but I found what I needed through searching this forum and was able to mostly fix the TV, so I'm going to pay it back and post a summary so that future people with the same issue can find the solution quicker!

Symptoms:

TV powers on with green power light. Right after power up the backlight will flash briefly and then typically stay off. If you leave the set on for a long time, once in a while it would flicker on for 10 minutes and work 100% perfect. There were NO blink...

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Signed up so I could troubleshoot a TV. Found what I needed without posting a question, but am going to post a new thread about the problem and the fix so future users find an easy fix!