Fixing the TV with some Scotch tape
I have an Samsung DLP which is probably 4 years old by now. I still like the TV as the picture is good enough and its a big tv. However, I’ve been having a problem, when I first turn it on it shuts off by itself within a first few seconds. It will continue doing this for quite a while until eventually it finally lets me watch it. This can go on for like 30 minutes.
Anyway, I figured I would just take a peak inside to see if there was something that was obviously wrong. I didn’t find anything obvious; however, I did notice there was a trigger-like switch. It appeared that it was engaged when the case was on and the little fan cover. When I was taking the case off I didn’t notice it getting disengaged, so I suspect that someone opened the TV before me (it was a floor model when I purchased it) and it might have disengaged the switch and when the case was put back on, it was never engaged.
That by the way is just a guess, I have no idea what in the world that switch does. So I started to see what the TV would do if it was engaged. The TV worked just fine when it was engaged. When it was disengaged it was having the same problem before.
When I was putting the case back on I tried to make sure that the switch was engaged; however, it was incredibly difficult… quite possibly by design. That’s where the tap comes into play. I just taped the switch so it’d be engaged.
TV appears to be working so far. It was having problems with the audio recently too. Not sure if it will fix that.
Maybe I should just buy a TV.
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