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You turn it on. It powers up and then immediately clicks off. Just started this tonite while watching a video. It is toast? or something else going on?



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Open it up and look for a burned out capacitor. Common problem on a lot of their units. Cheap to fix. Check for YouTube videos.



 
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Check for swollen capacitors.
 
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Most power boards are available and easy to replace.

If you see swollen or leaky caps, compare the cost of parts (caps/cap kits) vs the entire board.

I have repaired quite a few for less than $50 (replacing board) and having done repairs from tube systems through solid state.

I would rather spend the extra dollars and be done with it. But each issue should be evaluated on its own points.




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Ok guys, thank you. Very helpful as usual, you guys are. Wink



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You might also want to try another cable, maybe the monitor is losing signal from the device, and going to sleep because of a broken wire, or loose connection in the connector.
 
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^^^

I would hope checking the power cable, and the outlet (using a different circuit) and signal cables (and also seeing if it does it with all input sources) would be the first things checked.

But a good thing to bring up.




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Had a similar issue with an old Samsung we have. Bad capacitor. Tons of how-to videos on YT. Probably a bad cap on the power board. And capacitors are pretty cheap to boot.


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Same thing happened to me on our Samsung a little over a year ago. Replaced 2 capacitors and it’s still chugging along.
 
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