help!!!

[del]

If this is serious, I recommend you just buy a new one. If you don't know anything about electronics, under no circumstances should you attempt to repair a TV.

why not?

because the CRT (picture tube) is essentially a giant capacitor and store about 15-30,000 volts of juice, even when the set is turned off. you can do yourself serious injury trying to muck around inside a TV if you don't know what you're doing.

oh, wait, it's DavidS-go for it dude

 

[DavidS]

If this is serious, I recommend you just buy a new one. If you don't know anything about electronics, under no circumstances should you attempt to repair a TV.

why not?

because the CRT (picture tube) is essentially a giant capacitor and store about 15-30,000 volts of juice, even when the set is turned off. you can do yourself serious injury trying to muck around inside a TV if you don't know what you're doing.

oh, wait, it's DavidS-go for it dude

I'm not going to let my TV die. She's been too good to me. I watched Bush's inaguration (1st and 2nd), the September 11th attacks, the Afghanistan invasion, the Iraq invasion, the 2004 election, the Iraq war crumble, the debates, the steam pipe explosion, Yankees' plane crash into an East Side building, the 2007 debates, the 2008 debates, the election, the inaguration... I've watched everything on this TV. Hell, I lost my virginity with this TV on! Oh wait... nevermind.

So, what happened was that a rather large book fell on the area where the cable was connected to the TV. I got a new cable and it's working better, but not really that much better. So I'm going to take off a few panels in the back of the TV and try to see if I can straighten some things out that look crooked to me. I'm sure if I unplug the TV it won't have any electricity going through it and I'll be fine. I just need to find one of those damned tiny screw drivers.

 

[user_name_guest]

Becareful OP. Zombies are eatting people in the street. They already taken down the liberal media. That's what happens when you try to tax obesity.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Actually David, it sounds like you just need a new card for the inputs on the back of your television.

Don't try to fix it yourself though......as if you cross wires, you can fry the whole thing and burn your house down.

Much safer to take it to a repairman. Additionally, you will get some sort of guarantee that their work is solid if they're reliable.

You DO understand that the inside of a television is nothing but metal wires, and that electricity likes to travel that way, right?

Capacitors are DANGEROUS!

 

[Sunni Man]

I have an emotional connection to this TV. It's been everywhere with me. Done everything with me. BAH!!!!

DavidS, son you really need to get a life and try to bag a real woman.

By watching years and years of porno on this TV.

You have formed an unhealthy attachment to this electronic device.

This TV had become like a sabian sex machine that you have fallen in love with.

Now that the TV is broken. You feel like you have been dumped in a relationship!!

DavidS, this is in No way normal or mentally healthy.

You immediatly need to seek out a mental health professional for therapy to break free of this perverse addiction.

freud called these types of outburts "projection" ..... clearly a cry for help ....

I do believe you are right Manu1959.

DavidS did title the thread "Help!!!"

This just shows that he is making a serious cry for help and we shouldn't make fun of his condition.

Hopefully he will contact a Mental Health Professional to help him during this personal relationship crisis!!

 

[DavidS]

Your warning was a little late. The insides of a TV are very different from that of an inside of a computer. I don't really know what I did... the knob thingy where you put the cable wire into was bent, and there was a LOT of dust in there.

Well, a couple hours later... umm

IT'S WORKING!!! SHE'S ALIVE!!

Hell, something must have been going on in there because the picture is much clearer now.

I did not electrocute myself (sorry, del) nor did my apartment catch fire (sorry sailor).

w00t!

 

[del]

Your warning was a little late. The insides of a TV are very different from that of an inside of a computer. I don't really know what I did... the knob thingy where you put the cable wire into was bent, and there was a LOT of dust in there.

Well, a couple hours later... umm

IT'S WORKING!!! SHE'S ALIVE!!

Hell, something must have been going on in there because the picture is much clearer now.

I did not electrocute myself (sorry, del) nor did my apartment catch fire (sorry sailor).

w00t!

better luck next time.

 

[DavidS]

Your warning was a little late. The insides of a TV are very different from that of an inside of a computer. I don't really know what I did... the knob thingy where you put the cable wire into was bent, and there was a LOT of dust in there.

Well, a couple hours later... umm

IT'S WORKING!!! SHE'S ALIVE!!

Hell, something must have been going on in there because the picture is much clearer now.

I did not electrocute myself (sorry, del) nor did my apartment catch fire (sorry sailor).

w00t!

better luck next time.

I'll stick my finger in a socket tonight just for you.

 

[Sunni Man]

IT'S WORKING!!! SHE'S ALIVE!!

Once again DavidS, it's just an electronic device.

It's is NOT a woman!!!

 

[del]

Your warning was a little late. The insides of a TV are very different from that of an inside of a computer. I don't really know what I did... the knob thingy where you put the cable wire into was bent, and there was a LOT of dust in there.

Well, a couple hours later... umm

IT'S WORKING!!! SHE'S ALIVE!!

Hell, something must have been going on in there because the picture is much clearer now.

I did not electrocute myself (sorry, del) nor did my apartment catch fire (sorry sailor).

w00t!

better luck next time.

I'll stick my finger in a socket tonight just for you.

use a fork and stand in a pail of salt water.

 

[DavidS]

better luck next time.

I'll stick my finger in a socket tonight just for you.

use a fork and stand in a pail of salt water.

Sarah Palin called. She wants her brain back.

 

[del]

I'll stick my finger in a socket tonight just for you.

use a fork and stand in a pail of salt water.

Sarah Palin called. She wants her brain back.

well, give it back to her then; clearly you have no use for it.

use kosher salt.

 

[strollingbones]

o yea i forgot about the electricution thing...that is why i use the same day repair. guy...

 

[garyd]

Dude it is eight years old. If you've got an emotional attachment to it bury it in the backyard next to where you buried last pet. And get a new one. I doubt you can even find parts to fix it if you knew what was wrong and knew how to fix it yourself. In tv years that thing is freaking Methusula. No wait compared to that TV Methusala died young...

 

[DavidS]

Dude it is eight years old. If you've got an emotional attachment to it bury it in the backyard next to where you buried last pet. And get a new one. I doubt you can even find parts to fix it if you knew what was wrong and knew how to fix it yourself. In tv years that thing is freaking Methusula. No wait compared to that TV Methusala died young...

Eight years old is not old for a TV.

 

[Dis]

better luck next time.

I'll stick my finger in a socket tonight just for you.

use a fork and stand in a pail of salt water.

What does the salt do?

 

[Diuretic]

David, no, no, get it out of your place! I'm bloody serious!

Didn't you read Stephen King's "TV Sematary'?

 

[KittenKoder]

What does the salt do?

Salt makes the water more conductive.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Start with the obvious,
1) Is it plugged in?
2) Are you trying to turn it on with the remote, try the power button on the TV
3) See if there is a reset (red button) on back of the TV. Could be a fuse problem.
4) Try plugging a nightlight to see if the outlet is live.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Uh.......dear PC.......might wanna read the whole thread.

TV is fixed.