Oh Noes! What's This Weird Sound Coming From My LCD?

[MattyD]

Just when I thought my day couldn't get any worse, I'd just switched on my LCD telly to play some games and it started making horrible fizzing sounds

EDIT - Never mind, it's proper cream crackered by the looks of it. Switching itself off now and everything. Back to the shop with it I guess

[Swallow]

Lol, HD.

[MattyD]

L0L, Samsung repair centre. There are stories about them on this very board, and they're not very nice stories.

[Lyris]

Sounds like your power supply is borked!

In 2005 I heard a story about a Samsung LCD "exploding". I don't know how true or accurate that was.

[andrewfee]

Sounds like your power supply is borked!

In 2005 I heard a story about a Samsung LCD "exploding". I don't know how true or accurate that was.

There was a batch of faulty LE__R41 and R51 models that went out with faulty parts, it was capacitors blowing if I remember correctly. I had an LE32R41BX come back from the repair centre which went up in smoke (literally) when I plugged it in.

[Lyris]

And there was me thinking the LE__R41 series couldn't get any worse...

[bootmonster]

Yup dodgy capacitors in the PSU, and do you know why... they overfilled them lol. How do you do that at all really.

Interesting wiki page on it.

[MattyD]

Comet won't replace it outright because it's 29 days old and not 28 So now I've got the options of:

1. Wait over a week for an engineer to come out, and spend all day inside waiting for him, only for him to tell me it's knackered and send me to the shop for a replacement anyway; or
2. Call Samsung aftersales and risk an even longer wait, if the stories on this board are anything to go by.

NOT happy at all, you'd think that nigh-on ?600-worth of telly would last for years, let alone less than a calendar month.