Question about Philips Magnavox 20MS233S 20" TV

TV Comes On But No Picture

The power comes on, but when you put a channel on it has static and diagonal or horizontal lines going thru it or a Blue Screen. When you get the blue screen it you change channel on the remote you will get a picture with the lines again. Then if you click on a volumn button you can hear the sound. Started doing this a few days ago and got worse now it won't even get a picture UNLESS (this is the weird part) if you use the hair dryer or microwave the picture and sound will come on perfectly until you turn the appliance off then you get Blue screen again. Any suggestions??

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Check for bad solder connections on the pc board and a posible leaky cap

Posted on Dec 13, 2006

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