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[jeremym480]

Quote: Originally Posted by kehlis

Spoiler Just want to run something by everyone before I officially declare my TV dead. I consider myself decently tech savy but I know there are people here who know much more than me. So the TV is a four year old Vizio. Not a terrible TV, not a great one but never had any problems with it until today. Was watching the Dan Patrick show this morning but had to go into my office to take a work call for a little over an hour. I left the TV on. When I came back, the TV was off. Thought nothing of it at the moment, it happens due to inactivity sometimes and when I'm watching the DP show, I tend to not touch the remote so it very well could have been a couple hours of inactivity. The TV will no no longer power on and shows no signs of even wanting to try. A couple things. I've had the current set up (all the same devices) for about the same time I've had this TV and have never had an issue. There are a few additional Christmas lights in the living room but not more than I've ever had. There is only one breaker for this room. Through my troubleshooting (I'll get to that) I found out that whatever happened, has now caused the surge protector the TV was plugged into to stop working 100%. What I mean by that, is some of the outlets are working while others aren't (that's strange to me, hoping someone may be able to help me out there but I"m thinking that's tied to what caused the issue) Regarding troubleshooting, I've done everything google suggests to reset a Vizio TV. That generally starts and stops with unplugging it, holding the power button on the TV itself for and arbitrary amount of time (I've tried them all) and then plugging back in. That's supposed to fix it. Not for me. I haven't found anything I can do TV specific to troubleshoot. I've tested multiple outlets in the room. I've made sure that other devices will work in every outlet I've tried but the TV won't work with any of the outlets. I also grabbed an extension cord and tried the TV with an outlet on a different breaker with no luck. So my question to those of you that made through all that. Is it dead? (I'm assuming yes) What would be your best guess that caused it? Any other suggestions out there? Does anyone think it would even be worth it to have a technician look at it to see if a fuse blew inside? It's not under warranty. I really don't want to pay someone to look at it to tell me it's dead on the off chance it isn't. Truth be told, I want to be able to say I did my due diligence to my wife and use it as an excuse to get a 4k TV anyway. And have been looking to move on from vizio TV's.

The same thing just happened to my Samsung KS8000 that I bought in December 2016. I was playing NBA 2K stopped to eat dinner, went back 15-20 minutes later and the black screen of death.

I brought it to a local repair shop with the thinking that if I could get repaired for less than $300-400, then that would be better than trashing a $1100 tv that I only had for 3 years. I left it with the repair guy and he called back and said that the backlight went out. He repaired that, then said it was the board. New boards are $400 but there are used ones on eBay for around $100. They take them off of other damaged TV's so I've made sure to only order ones that I can return and so far I've ordered three and none of them have worked for my TV.

To make a long story short, it's still not working and the repair guy may have told me to order the wrong part. I'm getting a different part in and hopefully, that one does the trick but all of this ordering, returning, and running back and forth to the repair guy has been extremely frustrating.

In the meantime, I bought a new tv (I got the LG C9 and I highly recommend it if it's in your price range) for my mancave and planned on upgrading my bedroom TV with the KS8000 if it ever gets fixed.

[BurghFan]

Quote: Originally Posted by jeremym480

The same thing just happened to my Samsung KS8000 that I bought in December 2016. I was playing NBA 2K stopped to eat dinner, went back 15-20 minutes later and the black screen of death. I brought it to a local repair shop with the thinking that if I could get repaired for less than $300-400, then that would be better than trashing a $1100 tv that I only had for 3 years. I left it with the repair guy and he called back and said that the backlight went out. He repaired that, then said it was the board. New boards are $400 but there are used ones on eBay for around $100. They take them off of other damaged TV's so I've made sure to only order ones that I can return and so far I've ordered three and none of them have worked for my TV. To make a long story short, it's still not working and the repair guy may have told me to order the wrong part. I'm getting a different part in and hopefully, that one does the trick but all of this ordering, returning, and running back and forth to the repair guy has been extremely frustrating. In the meantime, I bought a new tv (I got the LG C9 and I highly recommend it if it's in your price range) for my mancave and planned on upgrading my bedroom TV with the KS8000 if it ever gets fixed.

Your story (and kehlis's) remind me of something that happened with my family's compouter monitor back in the 90s. My cousins were over and I think we'd been taking turns playing a game on the computer or something and at one point while I was sittingi at the computer I turned away for 5-10 seconds to talk to my cousin and when I turned back the monitor was dark. My mom took it to Best Buy or somewhere to be looked at and the repair person said it had arced and blown out. Just funny how it picked that exact moment when I turned away for less than 10 seconds to do so.

[Caulfield]

Quote: Originally Posted by WaitTilNextYear

Drivers of pick-up trucks are objectively the worst drivers on the road. Yes or no?

maybe. if they are, then Prius drivers have to be a close second lol

[Majingir]

From my experiences, the worst are the ones with the more expensive cars.

They'll speed and change lanes without signaling more than others.

[l3ulvl]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

From my experiences, the worst are the ones with the more expensive cars. They'll speed and change lanes without signaling more than others.

regardless of vehicle, women are the worst drivers

there are no women here right? I can say that without consequence?

[dubcity]

Quote: Originally Posted by l3ulvl

there are no women here right? I can say that without consequence?

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[countryboy]

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[Speedy]

Quote: Originally Posted by l3ulvl

regardless of vehicle, women are the worst drivers there are no women here right? I can say that without consequence?

I didn't wanna say it but I agree. Seemingly everytime I think this person has no clue what they're doing...its a woman driving.

Unrelated: my sister had 3 wrecks by age 18.

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