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My television is controlled by angry ghosts
Mad Jazz
gotta go fastAustinRegistered User regular
gotta go fastAustinRegistered User regular
Savvy dudes and dudettes of H/A, I bring to you a problem I have never encountered before.
Here's the situation: I got my tv secondhand a year ago from my then-girlfriend's parents. It's a 36ish inch crt, maybe 5 years old, in good condition, never mistreated or moved much. I picked it up in Dallas and brought it to my apartment in Austin, where it served me well for the remainder of the lease. Fast forward to three weeks ago, when my problem developed.
Periodically, and with no apparent trigger, my tv will turn itself off. The picture goes first, followed after a few seconds by the audio. Other than the lag between video/audio shutdown, there's no difference between this and turning off the tv with the remote. After it goes down, the only way to get the thing to turn on again is to unplug the fucker for a little while.
There's no set interval between turn off incidents, and there doesn't seem to be anything that contributes to keeping the tv on or making it shut off earlier or later. My roommate and I have tried moderating the volume to see if the internal speakers are a trigger, we've tried running the audio to a spare set of speakers, we've tried different outlets, nothing seems to help or hurt. The tv itself hasn't sustained any damage, since I'm responsible for 2 of the 3 lifetime moves and i took all the standard precautions. Do I just have to suck it up and get a new tv, or is this fixable?
tl, dr; My tv turns itself off randomly and won't turn back on unless I unplug it for a while. Why?
Here's the situation: I got my tv secondhand a year ago from my then-girlfriend's parents. It's a 36ish inch crt, maybe 5 years old, in good condition, never mistreated or moved much. I picked it up in Dallas and brought it to my apartment in Austin, where it served me well for the remainder of the lease. Fast forward to three weeks ago, when my problem developed.
Periodically, and with no apparent trigger, my tv will turn itself off. The picture goes first, followed after a few seconds by the audio. Other than the lag between video/audio shutdown, there's no difference between this and turning off the tv with the remote. After it goes down, the only way to get the thing to turn on again is to unplug the fucker for a little while.
There's no set interval between turn off incidents, and there doesn't seem to be anything that contributes to keeping the tv on or making it shut off earlier or later. My roommate and I have tried moderating the volume to see if the internal speakers are a trigger, we've tried running the audio to a spare set of speakers, we've tried different outlets, nothing seems to help or hurt. The tv itself hasn't sustained any damage, since I'm responsible for 2 of the 3 lifetime moves and i took all the standard precautions. Do I just have to suck it up and get a new tv, or is this fixable?
tl, dr; My tv turns itself off randomly and won't turn back on unless I unplug it for a while. Why?
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However, due to the recockulously high current kicking around in tube TV's, I would not suggest trying to DIY repair this. Take it to a repair shop and see if they can give a free/cheap estimate - if not, well, TV's are cheap these days.
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Unless you've somehow turned on a parental lock or sleep timer, it's something intermittent in the circuitry. This sounds a lot like a bad resistor or IC on the power board, which would explain the randomness -- a cracked solder joint or other overheating problem shouldn't be so random. This is going to be prohibitively expensive to diagnose and fix ($250 to $350ish), so you'd be better off watching Craigslist for a used CRT of similar size and quality. It isn't going to blow up or catch fire or anything (probably!), but it isn't going to be something you can fix yourself. Sorry.
Would 'splain the seeming randomness of it all... Still pricey to fix, if it bothers you grab another set.