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Don't waste your money. Its not a good TV to fix. Vizio uses the cheapest parts in the industry. Its probably not your mainboard but the panel itself. Not cost effective. If you can help it try not to buy Vizio. I wont even take them in to fix at my shop they are so bad to repair. you fix one thing and another breaks immediately. I'm sorry to give this as advice but I would hate for you to waste money.

The cost to repair it might not be a worry, parts for those types of sets are not available, the plasma style sets are replaced by LCD/LED.

Could be a sensitivity problem, have you tried to switch tv modes back and forth, sometimes if you do that it will save you from restarting the computer. I had a tv about 10 years ago that had a sensitivity issue, went to see about fixing it, unfortunately, the tv brand was no longer in the country and user service parts were not available.

Those blinks [flashes] are fault indication (Error Codes). From the number of blinks occur at one time switch ON, you can get an idea about the faulty circuit section inside it. This will make repair easy. These are called blinking codes. Make sure about the exact number of blinking of the standby/power LED, by switching On & OFF the set, for at least two times. Count it carefully. If you wish to get some details, check the site linked here. It has details about blinking codes, and fault locating procedure, to many popular brand TVs and other devices. http://homenol.blogspot.com/ http://electronicshelponline.blogspot.com/ If blinks continue without any pause, the main board is faulty. Search the site by type in the "brand name" to your device, in the "Search box at the top right of the display window of the Homepage" to get gathered related posts.

If you wish to get some details; visit the site linked here. Pull up older posts. http://electronicshelponline.blogspot.com/ Line faults & possible causes to LCD & Plasma screen are given with illustrations. You can get an idea about the fault to an extent. Faults to all LCD & Plasma screen are similar, irrespective of its brand and screen size. Search the site by type in the "BRAND NAME" of your device; (Exclude the model number), in the "Search box at the top right of the display window of the Homepage" to get gathered related posts

back light out,panel defective.no fuse will correct your problem.panel is bad.

Hi,
I work as a contract technician for Vizio, and I can tell you from experience that replacing motherboard is one of the only solutions to this problem. The other solution if under warranty is to replace it. If you experience red, blue, or green pixels where dark shades (like nose, eyes, clothes, etc), call Vizio and accept nothing less than a full replacement! I have had situations where I replaced motherboard and within 2-3 hours the pixels return. Hope this helps.

your component cables are mixup check the blue and green wires behind tv

There are two ways to do this:
1. Put the dvd in your computers dvd drive and use a DVD Ripping software to save the movie to your hard drive. This is the easiest (and cheapest) way to rip a dvd movie. Here is a good list of the 5 best DVD Ripping software.
2. Buy a capture card for your computer and record from the TV. This method is more expensive since a good capture card costs 100$+, this is also more time consuming because you would need to connect your computer to the TV and watch the entire movie while recording.

That sounds like one of the shutdown circuits of the tv is activating. Most likely would need a tech to repair for you. You could try to power cycle the tv to see if that helps, just unplug the power cord of the tv, wait a few seconds then plug it back in and try to turn the tv on. Would be similar to rebooting a computer.

Try viewing a source such as your cable box or computer on your TV. With this source playing, open the TV menu option. If the TV menu is also in black and white then there are a few components inside a plasma TV that can be causing your problem. If the menu appears in color but the video source your watching is in black and white the problem is probably with the source, such as your cable box or computer, rather than your TV. If the video and menu are in pure grayscale and the image is still clear the problem is likely the main board.