20 Most Recent Sony BRAVIA KDL-40V3000 Television - Page 8 Questions & Answers

TRY USING THE COLOR CONVERSION OPTION ,,ITLL FIX THE COLOR

COULD BE A BAD HDMI CABLE,,ALSO TRY CONVERSION IN THE SETUP MENU ,,IT MGHT FIX THE COLORS AND THE LINES

THE MENU ,,SHOULD HAVE A CONVERSION OPTION ,,TRY THAT ,,COLOR CONVERSION

Not common but electronics are electronics , we can have failures right out of the box. Generally Sony is reliable and I must say that you should not have to worry about cost , Is it not under warranty - its only 4 months old !!

This is bad the 13 blinks is a display issue. To repair your set you have to get a panel.. CALL SONY and raise hell.. I have seen this repaired by sony even after there factory warranty was up. Price of a panel is like 5 grand.

Contact Sony to get software upate. If that does not fix replace main board.

It sounds like your LCD Screen is no longer working. I would try contacting Sony and ask for a refund. I had the same T.V and the LCD Screen had gone out. A techniction came out and Condemned the screen and i had to pay $500 for a new T.V.

I think its either the X-sus or Y-Sus Boards which control the display. These are 2 boards with heatsinks on them, lots of capacitors and are at either edge of the screen.

ok, i think the problem lies with the tv, there must be a setting in the sound menu to use optical as sound out, as the sound will be via the HDMI cable, i applogise if you have checked this.

Tell me model of your computer and TV. How do you connect PC to TV, with s-video cable (looks like circle) or width two colored cables? Try to adjust video-card driver. There must be function like "find my TV".

You likely have the screen refresh rates on the PC set too high. The Sony will only accpet screen refresh rates of 60 Hertz. Checkl the settings of the display in your control panel..

check power bord fuice power bu

From your description, it could be the back light has 'gone'.

It sounds like a bad LCD panel but you would have to post a picture of the problem for me to be sure

It looks like your TV has a fault. You will need to get an repair engineer to fix it.

It is your BE2 Board, it has a problem, iv seen this befor, if it is brand new, i would call sony, they should send out a service center, and Sony will cover the repair

Sorry to hear this, It looks like you have a bad panel, more specifically a bad t-con board but this board is supplied as part of the panel. The panel for you tv costs over $1000, If I were in your shoes I would call sony and complain, they have been knowen to assist you in some way IE pay for the part and you pay labor or sometimes they take care of the job in full. They are going to want an estimate from an authorized service center in your area. You may want to have one come out and write you up an est and then call sony and complain. Let me know if you need more info.

Thanks
Tim

Hi
the meaning of two blinks from the self diagnosis function is

Two blinks - B+ over current protection (OCP), unit goes to the standby mode then displays the 2 blink fault. Could be a short in the power supply of any of the circuits.

they can be buffed out if not severe.

just replace what failed.
I replace the surface mount FETs on the inverters.