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I was watching CNN and playing on the computer than suddenly my TV's sound started going ultra sonic than a high pitch than at the same time my picture shrunk until it got to the middle than the TV just died. I unplugged it than plugged it back and hit the power button and it came back on. So I thought good it still works and turned it off. Half hour later I went to turn it back on and nothing. So after sitting for about 20 minutes scratching my head I figured what the hell take it apart and check the fuse. So I did that and the fuse was fried. So I drove my aggravated ass over to Radio Shack and got a little pack of fuses. I popped in the replacement fuse and plugged in the TV. But the second I did the fuse light up like a Christmas tree ornament and fried. I tried another fuse and again the sucker fried.
Now can someone tell what the hell is going on here? I'm hoping my TV isn't completely FUBOR and I can manage to salvage it.
I looked at the inside some more and I notice that there's dark orange crude on some parts of the main board and on the little board on the back of the tube section. Right now I'm thinking that this crud is causing a short on the board which may be shorting out my new fuses. I'm no technician but I would guess that the board's got hot and some left over crap from when the board was soldered melted spread across the board making the short. I've heard about this kind of stuff before when I took electronics in high school. I think I can remember that there was some solution you can get to clean this crap off the board in-case it shorts it out like this. I scraped at some of it with my knife and it's hard and crusty. Any clue to what this crap is?
how olds your tv?, you might have top mess with different standard, and to test for shorts you'll have to buy a lot of special equipment, probably be cheaper to buy a new one
It's a Daiewoo (I think I spelled that right) and I learned that they make real sh*ty tv's. So it's not even worth fixing. I'll just get a new one when I start working at Best Buy or Wal Mart. Maybe I can get an imployee discount.
Well if your just worried about the tube turning you to crips then this outta help you out. (Ive gotten used to just screwing around without grounding the tube... but its not a good idea)
Now Im not saying Ive done it (but I do think they wouldnt have posted this Im a more normal user over there but not the point) I just remember the couple of threads going on about that when I was reading this might be worth it (Im just someone whos cheap who trys to fix it themselves why not?..) Personly at this point flat screens arent much more then curved screens anymore and probely can be bought for the same price if you get them on sale so Id say go for a flat, just my little bit of input,
Cheers.
I had a Panasonic cordless phone that was one of the first 2.5 HZ that came out. It broke and I couldn't fix it either. I spent like $120 something on it but at the time it was one of the first GHZ phones. I went to Wal Mart a few weeks ago and found a 2.5 ghz DSS for $30 something. So I got that and threw the broken phone in the box I put all kinds of old electronics crap I either don't use or to old to use. I even have an old 28.8 SCSI modem in there.
I kind of gave up on fixing outdated stuff. My new philosophy is, if some thing breaks, don't fix it, replace it with some thing new and better. So when I get the money I'm just going to get one of those flat wide screen TV's. I just hope I'll be able to play XBOX games on it. A few people told me that some of those HD TV's you can't play games on them because of some graphics in games just sit in one spot on the screen and can burn the image in it. But than again that rule might apply to the first HD TV's that came out, maybe the newer one's now found a way around that problem, I don't know. I don't think it would be very profitable to make a TV that no one can hook there video games to.
Last edited by WarlockofVirgo; 08-08-2004 at 06:37 PM.
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