That's interesting-same *EXACT* thing happened to my GF's dad with I think
pretty much the same Samsung LCD (I can check on the exact model if you
like).
Based on reports about that and other Samsung gear having high failures rate
early on in their life, I'm not too hot on their build quality anymore (and
I have a Samsung TV and Blu-ray currently; got rid of their phones as they
were pretty crappy top-that should've clued me in!).
BINO
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Sipe
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 6:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] something is going on at PCP&C
On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Christopher Fisk wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, maccrawj wrote:
>
>> all the popped caps were a known crap hu-flung-dung brand.
>
> At my company we've been doing manual repairs quite successfully on
electronics with bad caps recently (on motherboards at least). It has saved
us a lot of money in warranty repairs on some systems we sold with 3 year
warranties without realizing that the manufacture warranty was only 1 year.
About 10 of those systems have had bad caps at about 18 months of life, and
I am sure that the rest just havn't shown their age yet.
>
> With a little practice on some old motherboards you can likely get to the
point with soldering where it is worthwhile to fix these types of issues.
>
>
> Christopher Fisk
For what it's worth, my 1.5 year old TV -- a Samsung 40-inch LCD (LNT4069)
-- recently stopped turning on. It would make clicking noises like it was
"trying" to turn on but never would.
After googling, I found it was a very common problem that was traced back to
you -- you got it -- bad caps! So after trips to *3* different radioshacks
(each radioshack only had 1 capacitor of the size/voltage I needed) and a
grand total of about $4.50, I was able to replace 3 bulging capacitors on
the tv board. All is perfect now.
I had never replaced caps before but would definitely give it a shot on
mobos/etc the next time it pops up. The board and capacitors inside the TV
were quite large so it wasn't a hard soldering job, and I did it with
nothing but a straight soldering iron. I would think for mobo work some of
the accessories others in this thread have mentioned would be nice.
Scott
