Hi folks...
My sister, who lives on the other side of the country from where I do, has a fairly new Magnavox LCD TV that just went kaput. If I lived closer, I'd have already taken the thing apart by now and troubleshot what sounds like a power supply problem. In as much as I can't help her where I'm at, I told here I'd post the information here on the chance that someone had run into this problem before. Perhaps someone could identify this as a known problem with this make and model. Is the set even worth fixing?
These are the set specifics:
LCD TV purchased February 2006
> Magnavox model 32MF605W\17,
> Serial number BZ2A0548170969
> MFG date: Nov 2005
And the symptoms as she describes them:
The power indicator will light up green when I turn on the TV, but there is no
picture or sound, just black.
When I press "menu" on the tv or remote, no menu appears on the screen, nor
are there any numbers to indicate channels or source, etc.
When I push the "source" button on the remote to scroll through source
options, nothing appears on the tv except that one of the choices appears to make the black screen a barely perceptible shade lighter than black.
Magnavox, by the way, is no help at all. The best they could offer her was sympathy that the set of "out of warranty" and the lame explanation that "all the new technology [fails] like this." I suspect this is the last Magnavox she'll ever buy.
Anyhow...my web-bot-resistant email address is: hpf{atsign}gainbroadband{period}com
Thanks in advance, and 73
Pete AC7ZL