First of all, I replaced the lamp about 4 months ago, so it is relatively new. The Problem: The TV almost never turns on after the first try. The sound always comes on, the red light stays solid, but then the green light blinks. The TV turns off, turns back on and continues to cycle like this, with sound, until the picture finally kicks in on one of the restarts. Is this possibly a bad lamp I got? As soon as this problem started occurring I also noticed the fans humming and getting louder. Thanks for any thoughts!

Some of these sets had a stupid feature. In the customer menu look for something called quick start.

The way you can tell if it is engaged is when you turn the set off the lamp dims but does not go out and the fans stay on all the time, clearly this feature was meant to speed up the turn on time but with it engaged when you turn the set off the lamp is still hot, if you turn it off and try to turn back on it will not function for fifteen or twenty minutes.

If you get the set to come on watch the lamp from the back and then turn the set off, does the lamp just dim down or go off? Lamp fan should run for a maximum of five minutes to cool lamp off, if it does not shut off and lamp only dims down look in the customer menu for quick start and deselect it, it is DEFAULT setting if set was unplugged.

These sets with this feature had problems where the lamp did not last two years.

Before you rate this solution let me know if you find what I described.

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