Re: Need Help Troubleshoot Plasma TV VIZIO P50HDM

Hello, thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to the plasma TV to look at. I've suggested to the neighbor to sell it for parts over craigslist ... see if anyone is interested in it, since I don't have any experience fixing plasmas. The warranty has long expired, and the story on this TV is that it was left turned on over a hot summer night and the next day it just doesn't show picture anymore, except sound.

I'm posting this for one of my neighbors who has a defective Plasma TV Vizio model# P50HDM

The problem is that you turn on the TV, there would be sound, but screen stays dark, there are distorted images but once again, hard to tell since there are no backlight. Has anyone ever encounter this problem before that can tell me which parts are bad? It's a expensive TV and quite a waste to just trash the unit.

I've opened up the unit and all the caps looks ok (no bulging), there are surface mount electrolytic capacitors on some of the boards so I don't really know if that...