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Registered Member #96
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
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COmplete LCD, with HDMI, composite and VGA. AFAIK the guts are intact, the customer bought it over here from the 'States and it worked for a while then gave up.
the postage would probably suck however.. i have quite a few other TVs including tubes and inverter boards if you can use them :)
will test it and get back to you.
UPDATE:- it does power up, but there is random garbage that looks like fixed pattern noise on the LCD. It briefly clears on changing modes then comes back.
However, it looks a bit like the on screen display (OSD) chip may be responsible, so if I can kill its outputs then it might yet work.
someone suggested it may be the panel itself, but i'd need another samsung TV to test this theory. it has the standard LVDS connector so it might be feasible to do a board swap.
Registered Member #96
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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This had occurred to me. I tried freezing chips and so far no sign of anything bad. It *looks* like it may be related to the panel itself but I won't know for sure until I try opening up the shielding over the connector.
Apparently this is a common problem with Samsungs, usually it isnt this bad though (random dots not continuous snow). One thing I did notice is when it switches modes vertical bars of the screen look perfect, interspersed with bad areas, then the whole screen goes fuzzy. Maybe a clue?
I've had a TFT monitor do this before as something heated up.
regards, -A
btw to add an incentive, if anyone can give advice that get this beastie going I'll send them an HV parts goodie box :)
This also applies to that g**dam Philips plasma that I have here with the "starts for one second then shuts down" fault.
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110v flat screen anyone?
