"ginger72" wrote in message
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I feared that it may be a fatal problem but hoped it might be
something simple!
Thanks for your advice, guess I'll have to look to buy a new one....



Why don't you have a service tech work on it? If the picture was ok before
it failed then it should be economical to repair. Just because you can't fix
something yourself doesn't mean you should dump it in a landfill and buy a
new one.