"blanking" blanking@brain wrote in message
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Hi there, I have a 12 year old sony tv that just suddenly started having
problems, first sign of trouble was that when you turned it on no picture
would come up, that includes osd, and then after about 10 seconds it would
automatically shut down to standby mode again, no matter how many times I
tried it just kept doing this until that is I gave the top of the tv a
whack at which point all was fine again for sometime but then most of the
picture would disappear and there would just be flickering strips of
picture near the top of the screen and then if I did not give it some more
whacks it would turn off again. Any ideas as to what this could be, could
it be as simple as dust or is this the last dying gasps of the cathode ray
tube, why would a whack help the tube to go again?


It's cracked solder joints on one of the boards, take it somewhere to have
the problem fixed. Stop using it *now* and certainly stop whacking it, quite
a few TV failures start out as solder joints then much more severe damage
occurs because people continue to use the things.