No picture I had TV on, it was working fine. I left the room to shower, when I came back in TV was blank but I had sound. The backlights were on. I powered off, then on. I did nopt se the normal splash screen "PLEASE WAIT........." as the tv boots up, nor did I see the "searching for signal message. TV is just over 1 yr old.

Press the TV menu button. If no menu appears the problem could be a bad tcon display board or backlight inverter board. Turn off the room light and check TV for backlight glow. If it has a glow then the problem can be a loose tcon connection or bad tcon board. Check connections.
Or it could be,
Possible TV Back-Light Inverter Board Issue:
To see if the back-light has gone out, turn the TV on. Turn the lights off and make the room dark. Shine a flashlight onto the screen at different angles. If you can see some of the picture then the back-light has gone out. (It should glow a slight grey if it’s working) To fix this you need a TV backlight inverter board. You can buy one online for a relatively low price. Usually the board will have a few bad capacitors on it. You could attempt to repair it yourself if you can identify which capacitor has gone bad. A capacitor kit for a TV board is ultra cheap. You are best off buying the backlight inverter board and installing it yourself. A back-light inverter board should be from $10 to $25 dollars depending on your TV model

Sounds like the backlight has failed.

ok I have ran across this before.. First turn on the TV and go to a channel u know is good, with sound.. now turn off lights in the room.. or just darken the room.. next take a FLASHLIGHT and turn it on and shine it into the front of TV . If u see the images on the screen when moving the flashlight around. that is a good sign.. That usually means the Backlight board or boards are not working..with the TV on and in a darken room you should be able to see light coming through some of the Vent holes in the back cover, that means the Backlight board is working. from what u say I would bet on the backlight boards. pretty easy fix.. Unplug from the AC outlet. remove the back. Now be careful back there cause u can still get Zapped. I ALWAYS take pictures of the back (close up of the model and serial #'s) I take several pictures of the inside of the TV. some TV's have the Backlight board or boards on the side of the screen and some have the backlight inverter built in the main board, since u have already replace the main board u must have backlights separated. . Take close up shots of the board, and write down all the #'s from the board and when u order make sure u order the exact one..I never remove the bad board till I have the new one ready to install. I always go to ShopJimmy.com first to see if they have the part. Then I check Amazon, and then eBay. in that order.try to buy NEW boards if u can.. Hope this helps.

When the screen goes blank, dim the lights in the room. Take a bright flashlight and shine it on the panel. If you see a faint picture, you have a backlight failure

If this is an LCD TV, show a flash light on the screen from a safe distance. If you can see picture, it means the backlights have gone off and the TV might need servicing.

The problem is in the vertical deflection circuits which is responsible for giving a full picture. Since the set is 8 years old the money would be better spent on a new tv since more frequent break downs in other parts of the set would be more likely due to age.

If you can quickly get to menu before picture goes blank, then go picture / backlight / set backlight to minimum and it will work fine.

I had the same problem after having a Vizio for 2 and a half years. I left the room for a minute, i came back and the screen went black. There was still power to the unit and you could see that the back light was working, just no picture, no sound, and you couldn't use any of the buttons. The only way to turn it off was to unplug it. It would then start up, with the Vizio logo going from orange to white, and then do the same thing all over, no pic or sound.

HOW I FIXED MINE:Look through the back vents for a white light to make sure the backlight still works. I ordered a new "main PCB" from tigerdirectparts.com (you can also use searspartsdirect.com). This is the circuit board with all of the inputs on it (hdmi, cable, etc.) I opened it up, disconnected the old one, put in a new one and now it works fine. I used both serial numbers on the board to search for it online. It cost me $144 to do it, but that's better than $450 for a new TV. My tv is the vx32l hdtv10a. I hope that helps.

For me the part number was either (depending on the vendor) : 0171 2272 2174 or it was 3632 0212 0150. Check your circuit and see if any of those numbers match up.

If you've done the flash light test, it could be the inverter board became defective but it could also be that the power supply does not provide the +24VDC to the back light inverter board.
If you could do the +24VDC test using a voltmeter then we can say for sure that the back light inverter board is defective.
Let me know if you need further assistance.

before you give up..call samsung directly, they are very consumer oriented and if it is only a couple months out of warranty you might get them to repair it,, 1 800 samsung