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InvisibleLeft Nut City
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Any electronic geeks out there?
    #7787106 - 12/21/07 08:44 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I have a 50" Samsung DLP TV that is 3 years old. I was watching TV tonight when suddenly I got 10 sets of 8 pin stripes running vertical on my screen, all spaced evenly apart.

It happens when I switch to DVD or no input at all, even with a blank blue screen I get the stripes.

I checked the lamp bulb, connections, tried re-booting it, called Samsung customer service (fucking waste of time), Googled the problem and came back with nothing.

I figure I'm gonna have to call the TV repair company which is gonna cost serious $$$.

I am outside of any warranties and shit.

Does anyone have any idea what the hell is going on with this TV??

Thank you in advance.


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Re: Any electronic geeks out there? [Re: Left Nut City]
    #7787183 - 12/21/07 09:07 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

i really dont know shit about DLP otherwise i would help ya out brah..

i got me a 32" lcd samsung.. i hope that everything works out for ya and it's something free/cheap.. but it doesn't sound like it, sadly.

maybe your 'mirror's are off :tongue:


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Re: Any electronic geeks out there? [Re: Left Nut City]
    #7787211 - 12/21/07 09:15 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Left Nut City said:
called Samsung customer service (fucking waste of time)




Let me guess...you had to navigate through a dozen menus for about 30 minutes, you typed in all your info, and then you finally got a person who barely spoke English and they asked for all of your info again. And then they didn't help you anyway.

I love modern day tech support.


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Re: Any electronic geeks out there? [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #7787221 - 12/21/07 09:18 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

It didn't take me long to get through really and the chick spoke English like a native.

She just didn't know what the fuck was wrong and told me to cal a TV repairman out.  She couldn't even wager a guess as to what was wrong.

:crankey:


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Re: Any electronic geeks out there? [Re: Left Nut City]
    #7787355 - 12/21/07 09:59 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

What is the model number?


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Re: Any electronic geeks out there? [Re: Legend9123]
    #7787418 - 12/21/07 10:19 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Samsung HL-P5085


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Re: Any electronic geeks out there? [Re: Left Nut City]
    #7787473 - 12/21/07 10:38 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

In all honesty I am kinda stumped by this one. I did some research and my best guess is your light engine is bad. Narrowing it down farther than that could prove to be a challenge though I just don't have much experience with DLP's so my suggestion to you would be to check out AVSForums. They have some pretty knowledgeable HT gurus over there that might be able to help.


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Re: Any electronic geeks out there? [Re: Left Nut City]
    #7793063 - 12/23/07 04:16 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

u know how plasma,s burn really hot and if they r left on the same station for a while the icons on a particular station can get burned into the screen, maybe something like that?


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Re: Any electronic geeks out there? [Re: 5150]
    #7793262 - 12/23/07 05:24 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Burn in is not possible on a DLP.


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Re: Any electronic geeks out there? [Re: Legend9123]
    #7793285 - 12/23/07 05:31 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

If it were a computer, I would think faulty video memory or cold soldier joint on the graphics chip somewhere. I don't know enough about modern TVs to be much help.


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