Just posted by accident under 42pf9996. TV is a 42pf9966. 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 indicator 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.
I am from Australia and this TV is a dud. We purchased it 12 months ago and it has been to repair twice. It is doing the same as the above message. Prior to this the screen would half, horizontally, go black or white with coloured vertical lines. Never buy another of these.
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Wow this is scary, I'm from Australia bought mine in 2005
model Philips 42PF9966 42in
1/ Had the same problem with the on/ off happening it would click etc , sent it back they did what ever and problem went away 2006
2/ 2007 then we had the same problem of the picture getting like RFinterference but it would do it on all channels so not an aerial problem it would some times last 30 mins to 6hrs with this snowy/grainy horizontal distortion until finally the whole screen was coloured snow, so guess what we under warranty sent it back to a Phillips repairer , who after 2 weeks said there's nothing wrong, and advise that they updated our software
6 months later
we are stuck Out of warranty with a TV that will do this once or twice a day
my question is , im sure this is common problem so why dont the philips repairers know of this and FIX it while the product is under warrnaty , and not say theres nothing wrong with it..
This evening we were watching TV then suddenly it turned itself off.
We tried to switch it back on, the blue light comes on for about 5
seconds then the TV is off again (no standby light, no sound, no
picture). Is there anything we do? We would really appreciate your help on this matter. Model number: 42PF9966/12.
Many thanks.
Aislinn.
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