Samsung LNT-5265 52" LCD 1080p turns on strange, then pink dots appear with picture. Upon turning it on, I can hear it turn on, but the red light just flashes 5 times, then the set turns itself off and back on again, only to flash the red light 5 more times and turn off again. It does this about three times before showing a normal picture, but there are pink dots all over the screen. If I turn off the TV and turn it back on, the pink dots dissappear and everything is okay. The TV is mounted on a swivel, and I'm beginning to think it got swiveled into the wall by one of my kids when I was out of the room. Aside from the obvious "watch your kids better," can anyone offer any insight as to what this might be and a way to fix?
Howdy,
It sounds like you have a Power Supply Board problem. The PSB is the center Board (towards left) after you remove the back off the TV. Remove Board from TV with the 6-7 screws. Replace capacitors CM811, CM812, CM817 & CS806; 1000ufd 25volts. It is the board to the left and you notice that the four cap tops are swollen.
It is easy to replace get a stanard solder pencil and you are in business.
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Testimonial: "Thanks for the advice, guy. I already replaced the 2 that were swollen, and now my TV is awesome again. Will replace all caps if it happens again."
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Okay, so after waiting patiently for a response, the TV now takes like ten minutes to stop turning itself off and on before it will display a picture at all. I have been reading up on others with this problem, and everyone seems to recommend changing some capacitors, but before I take my set apart tomorrow can anyone tell me what capacitor(s) I'm looking for, what kind of steps I'll need to take, or maybe what tools I'll need? I'm fairly smart and mechanically inclined, but I definitely need a push in the right direction before I attempt to fix my $2000 TV
Good news: like I said yesterday, I went ahead and uncovered the back panel of my TV today. After removing another metal cover inside I found roughly ten capacitors of varying sizes, but thankfully only found two that appeared blown. They were 10 volt, 1000 micro-farad, 105 degree Celsius caps, and I had to call around a bit to find some since Radio Shack doesn't stock these. I got my caps at a marked-up $5 apiece, a new 40 watt soldering iron for $10, some 60-40 resin-core solder for $5, and a solder ****** for $5. I took the blown caps out, put the new ones in, and the TV fired up like new for a total of $30 and some easy detective work. Note that I have never repaired any kind of circuit board before, and I thought this was pretty easy with some help from a site called badcaps.net. Good luck out there, and thanks to all the "helpful experts" at FixYa.
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