Fix Philips flat screen power flashing led problem
January 20, 2009 Leave an answer
Filed under Consumer Electronics Problems
My Philips flat screen TV is refusing to switch on, the power LED is flashing and I have been told this is some kind of protect mode. How do I fix this fault and stop the blinking red light?
Submitted By: Kerry
need help, our tv shut down while on and a blinking red light in the bottom left of the screen… wont turn on
i have a philips 46 flat screen tv has red blinking light wont turn on please any
info on what the problem could be, i live in riverview fl close to brandon can you refer
me thank you, desperate.
Well here’s how it is. The blinking red light means that the power supply is trying to tell the guy at the factory that made the thing that one of the chips is fried or defective. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Well it would be simple if we all FLEW around in hybrid electric Volkswagen Beetles with fuel cells that get 200 miles to the gallon. But don’t get me wrong, it’s fixable. The problem is, like with those flying cars that look like UFOs from 1940, is that you spent a lot of money on that TV because it was NEW, and just like a NEW CAR, it’s OLD as soon as you drive it home, so they stop making it, and make a totally NEW design with all different parts so your neighbor can show off to you. So, basically all you need is a quick replacement of the voltage supply which doesn’t exist because they don’t make it anymore, because it’s TOO OLD for you. So you have choices. Not like 1940 when you could pull the tubes out and take them to the TV store to test them and get replacements. You can yell at or sue the store where you bought it and also the manufacturer and hope that someday after doomsday they will replace it. You have a slim chance of knowing somebody who knows somebody who has one just like it with good power but they threw their Wii game at it and shattered the screen. But most likely, since you could afford one, you will put the dead one in the rubbish and some poor geek who is willing to spend spring break trying to figure out the circuit and test hundreds of chips that our eyes can no longer tell the difference between, just so he can immerse himself in his videogames and maybe make some temporary friends, because he has plenty of time and covets these big screens because he can’t afford to buy them, but he lives for the joy of diving into the store’s dumpster at the witching hour with his robot girlfriend to find all these little itsy bitsy pieces of electronic crap that he needs to make stuff for next to nothing in the same amount of time or longer than it takes you to earn enough money to buy stuff like that. And he thanks you very much for buying the latest slowest buggiest new computers, since he picked your old ones out of the garbage dump and recycling plants and used them to make a supercomputer powerful enough to enable him to continue traveling in his Starship room to his dream world 24 hours a day. Or, perhaps, he lives in a very poor neighborhood and exchanges his skills in the interior design of the local secret nightclub for protection from gangs. Or maybe he worked at the factory as a child to make these things and is one of those few people who can fix them quickly and sell them for a living in his own storefront workshop. All of the above is mostly the work of my own imagination but not too far from likely. I have two screens that don’t light up because of bad power supplies but not enough time or money to bother fixing them now, because I don’t care what teams are moving what kind of ball around with what kind of mascots nor what numbers are now appearing on the digital counters on some scoreboard somewhere, nor who is doing what while lost on some island, nor who’s having an affair with who on the soaps, nor what kind of trouble the politicians are making for each other, nor what the consistently bad news of the day is… nor what the sponge in the pineapple does with his pants;… it’s much more calm and peaceful just watching and listening to the “waterfall” that’s now on all of the channels on my old analog TV. Garbage in, garbage out. It’s time to buy a NEW piece of trash and pay the wages of your heroes in your flat world. I invented 3DTV before I ever even saw a flat TV, but I’m sure flat will be in style until 2020 at least, when patents run out, or there are no brains left to go down the drain. Consume mass quantities! In China there is a mountain of PCs that don’t run Vista. Imagine how big a shadow the mountain of analog TV’s will cast over it. I’m in NY, and I’ve noticed that my friend who uses an antenna gets Chinese HDTV channels. Maybe they’re ironically buying all your foreclosed houses and you’ll be seeking shelter in their Mountain of Wasted TV’s.
(I hope you are amused by my point of view and don’t take it too seriously.)
You are an absolute JERK! You have too damn much time on your hands!!!
I was looking for a real solution to a real problem not sarcatic assism!!!
I have the same problem with my 37 inch LCD. You may have tried this but my TV will reset if I unplug the HDMI cable and then unplug the tv from the electrical outlet on the wall. I usually try to plug in the tv and then the hdmi cable in that order before turning the tv back on. I seem to get the red light if I try to turn the TV off and then on too quickly. I can’t stand my philips tv and their customer service is terrible. Unfortunately I am stuck with it. Sorry to hear you are having the same problems.
has anyone actually found a solution to this yet. i have the same problem and heard that it may be to do with a PS3 putting the TV in a sleep mode. I have tried everything to fix it with different combinaction of cable connections or different methods of turning on and off and nothing helps…… Well hacked of with it. It can go weeks with no problems and suddenly it just starts clicking off as you as it tries to transmit a picture onscreen. If i am quick i can get the tv to go striaght into the option menu but as soon as you exit and it tries to put a picture on screen it clicks off and i get one long flash then 4 quick blinks of the red standby light.
Please help
I have the exact same problem. I have been searching for hours, and I have never found anything. I think some guys are coming to fix the problems in a couple days, but I’m not very patient.