"Fred Mann" wrote in message
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I have a Samsung TV manufactured in 1998. I picked it up from a trash
pile
on bulky-item pickup day!! To my surprise, it worked fine. But
occasionally,
the picture would "compress" or shrink in an oscillating fashion. It would
"shrink" in the way that the image "shrinks" when you turn off a TV (right
before the screen goes black). It would oscillate, and sometimes turn
itself
off. (sound was fine) Gradually, this started to happen more often, until
it
began to turn itself off after only a couple of minutes. Now, when I hit
the
power button, the TV does not come on at all, but there is a "click"
sound,
followed immediatley by another "click" sound as the TV shuts itself back
off.
Any ideas?
Thanks!!!
Fred



When you started out it was a simple cold solder joint, probably would have
taken 20 minutes to repair and well within the reach of a novice. By
continuing to use it you probably blew out the horizontal output transistor
or something in the power supply, it's still repairable but it'll take a lot
more work now.