Re: Samsung Plasma Tv with black vertical bar.



Sorry old thread, but what difference would this make? I have a Samsung PN51E7000 which started out with a few thin vertical lines. It eventually turned into an entire vertical black bar about 3" wide with the thin vertical lines visible within.

I tried removing all ribbon cables going to the bottom (x-buffer?) boards and turning on the TV. The image was just dark noise, but the vertical black bar was still visible. This leads me to believe the problem is the chip on the ribbon cable going to the...