When I push power button on side of TV (remote isn't doing anything), I hear a click as it tries to turn on. I can see the screen try to come on with a light glow on the screen itself but it almost immediatly fades out slowly. Same with the blue backlights behind the "power" "menu" etc buttons on the side of the TV. Every once in a while, the TV (and ambilights) will actually come on but most often, the TV just tries and then fades off. At the beginning of the symptoms (a few days ago), after I tried to turn the TV on, the red and blue lights on the front of the TV would alternate back and forth each time I could hear the click. As if the TV was trying repeatedly to come on. This all just started one morning, the night before all was fine. Strangely, the TV did the same thing about a year ago for 2 days (TV is about 1.5 yrs old) then was fine until now it started doing it again. After a week now it's out for good. In fact, I don't even hear a click anymore. I push the power button and the little blue lights behind the buttons come on, then fade off. Nothing else. Seems to me it's the power suppply modulator (or something along those lines) that's gone bad. If a fuse, that would be nice but symptoms don't indicate a fuse as a fuse burnout is usually an on/off symptom. Any help would be appreciated. I don't live in the US now and am nowhere near a service shop/person. I want to be able to handle this myself if at all possible. Will be back in US soon and can pick up part if necessary. Thanks for any help.
Not to alarm you but several models that had the ambilight feature were subjects of the consumer products safety commission recall for shorting in the ambilight feature this can be checked on the us products safety commission website do a google search on your model number assuming the panel is not one of recalls the tv probably needs the power supply board there are several fuses on it ; one that you will find open the fuse shorted for a good reason there is power fet or sumthin on the power pcb dead shorted put in a new board call phillips consumer support and complain that you dropped way too much money on a flat panel tv when you could have bought a dlp tv if thats too complicated buy a new one
Posted on Dec 09, 2006
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