Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat!

[1sikbITCH]

Little excited right now and must tell someone... The plasma gods thought they were going to fxck me. Two months out of warranty the video on our 50 inch tv crapped out. My wife was pissed and therefore I was suffering :\

We rearranged some bill payments and freed up a good bit of my check on the 30th to buy another one. I was about to give this tv to someone like my folks who can't afford a new tv but maybe could spend the loot for a repair tech to fix it.

Then as I was perusing the AVS forum I found a link to the repair manual and realized I should at least take the back off and poke around a bit.

After 30 minutes of troubleshooting and $50 on Ebay, I popped a new circuit board in tonight and the tv is alive! Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaal!!!!!!!!!

And added bonus we've got a bunch of loot freed up and have decided to go on a mini vacation next weekend 🙂

 

[darkxshade]

Your TV will be dead when you get back from vacation and you'll be fucked! 😉

 

[Gothgar]

cool

 

[Wheezer]

Little excited right now and must tell someone... The plasma gods thought they were going to fxck me. Two months out of warranty the video on our 50 inch tv crapped out. My wife was pissed and therefore I was suffering :\

We rearranged some bill payments and freed up a good bit of my check on the 30th to buy another one. I was about to give this tv to someone like my folks who can't afford a new tv but maybe could spend the loot for a repair tech to fix it.

Then as I was perusing the AVS forum I found a link to the repair manual and realized I should at least take the back off and poke around a bit.

After 30 minutes of troubleshooting and $50 on Ebay, I popped a new circuit board in tonight and the tv is alive! Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaal!!!!!!!!!

And added bonus we've got a bunch of loot freed up and have decided to go on a mini vacation next weekend 🙂

If momma ain't happy...nobody's happy.

One of those guarantees in life like death and taxes.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

The Sony timer strike again? 🙂

 

[CPA]

Damn, you are one sick bitch. Good job.

I love it when a cheap solution fixes a problem. I got burnt last week however. My septic system was on the fritz. Paid my maintenance guy to come out, open the control box and push in a 20 amp breaker that had slipped out of place - $107 down the drain that I could have done myself if I had just opened the control box. Sometimes I am just a moron.

 

[1sikbITCH]

The Sony timer strike again? 🙂

It was the video board. There are only about 5 boards on the whole thing so it was incredibly easy to troubleshoot, and almost as easy to change the board out.

Once I took the back off I felt like an idiot for letting the tv sit there for a month without even looking inside.

 

[KeithTalent]

The Sony timer strike again? 🙂

What does that mean? :hmm:

My 2.5 year old 46" Samsung LCD started going in the crapper (weird vertical lines on the right side of the screen) and they are giving me a new Sony EX500 as a replacement since I had the extended. Should I have tried to get a different set?

KT

 

[Demon-Xanth]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_timer

There actually was once incident where a Sony TV had a firmware bug that would cause the TV to not power on after a certain amount of hours, that people calculated to be likely a couple months after the warranty ended, giving some cred to the legend.

"Of course, the "Sony Timer" has never been proved and there’s no evidence that it’s anything other than a Japanese urban legend. But things got pretty interesting when it was revealed that a bug in selected E-Series Bravia TVs meant they’d only last 1,200 hours, before refusing to power on or off. This conveniently adds up to about 3 hours watching per day for one year, the exact period of the television’s warranty. Sony issued a software patch to fix the problem. "

 

[KeithTalent]

Huh, very interesting. I had no idea. Sounds like it's fixed now, if it ever really was an issue.

KT

 

[mugs]

Little excited right now and must tell someone... The plasma gods thought they were going to fxck me. Two months out of warranty the video on our 50 inch tv crapped out. My wife was pissed and therefore I was suffering :\

We rearranged some bill payments and freed up a good bit of my check on the 30th to buy another one. I was about to give this tv to someone like my folks who can't afford a new tv but maybe could spend the loot for a repair tech to fix it.

Then as I was perusing the AVS forum I found a link to the repair manual and realized I should at least take the back off and poke around a bit.

After 30 minutes of troubleshooting and $50 on Ebay, I popped a new circuit board in tonight and the tv is alive! Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaal!!!!!!!!!

And added bonus we've got a bunch of loot freed up and have decided to go on a mini vacation next weekend 🙂

This post is full of good money management habits. 😀

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_timer

There actually was once incident where a Sony TV had a firmware bug that would cause the TV to not power on after a certain amount of hours, that people calculated to be likely a couple months after the warranty ended, giving some cred to the legend.

"Of course, the "Sony Timer" has never been proved and there’s no evidence that it’s anything other than a Japanese urban legend. But things got pretty interesting when it was revealed that a bug in selected E-Series Bravia TVs meant they’d only last 1,200 hours, before refusing to power on or off. This conveniently adds up to about 3 hours watching per day for one year, the exact period of the television’s warranty. Sony issued a software patch to fix the problem. "

I had a Sony DVD player that died after 14 months. I googled the error and found that my model and a half dozen others usually died after about 18 months (more or less depending on use) because of a design flaw. You could fix it by replacing a resistor or something like that on the circuit board. This didn't get the media coverage that some other flawed designs have gotten, so Sony didn't extend the warranty.