On 18 Dec 2005 14:06:35 -0800, "Skew" wrote:

optimistic hope that it was just mounted badly, I re-seated the board,
put it back together, and the set worked again... for about 6 hours.
Then it went back to clicking.

I posted on here, and on Jason's and Ron's responses, I pulled it open
again and re-soldered the LM317 and the surface mount resistors near
it. That seemed to do the trick, it was working great. I figured I'd
wait a couple of days before posting my results for the benefits of
others.

Right on! That's one problem solved.


Today, I've got a new problem, audio with no video. The menu works
fine, so I'll have to start searching again to find out what's going
on. I'll post my results on here again, along with the links that
helped the most, in case it helps someone else out.


Open it up again and pull the chassis out. Look at bottom of circuit
board for bad solder joints where blue connectors are for the F2PIP
board. Otherwise press the board down firmly and making sure the
connectors are latched, they have catch hook on each blue connectors.

I remembered there was another problem with no picture, menu working
was also the F2PIP board not making good circuit.

While at it,

Look for L14401 coil (marked as L4401), is a dark grey round bar with
gold wire wound around it one layer with two red drops on it. I bet
this one have hot melt glue around it. Remove coil and get hot glue
scraped off, clean out two holes for that. Solder coil back in. This
should fix the no picture.

Cheers, Wizard