20 Most Recent Sony KDL-40S3000 40 in. LCD HDTV Questions & Answers

In most of the case, the screen is bad. The gate buffer IC is defective. Not worth to replaced the LCD panel.

This means your tv is going out. If it is relatively new I would call the store and ask for a refund or exchange.

This Tv was sold starting in 2008. If your LCD TV or monitor has stopped working, or is displaying one of the following symptoms, then it's a candidate for some new capacitors - Flickering screen - Screen image disappears after several seconds - Dim screen - Slow start - Power LED on, but no picture - Unusual colors and/or lines The primary cause of LCD TV and monitor failure is caused by faulty capacitors. You can examine the capacitors in your LCD TV or monitor and actually see if they are bad. If they appear bulged on top, then they need to be replaced. New capacitors will solve a host of problems in LCD monitors and TV's and will extend the life of your monitor or TV by several years. Check the cables, connectors and connections. Take it to a repair shop.

How did this happen????? If water is dripping from the tv, do NOT switch the tv on else this may be dangerous and damge the tv. How bad is the water damage? Is it dripping from inside?

Possibly, replace Capacitors in power supply area.

Flashing light on the front panel indicates some fault to internal circuit. Count this number of flashes occurs at one time. Visit the site named 'Electro-help' for more details. Click this link. View it in "Timeslide" or "Flipcard" option, which can be selected from the drop down box menu by the [Sidebar] tag, at the top left corner of the display window. You can also ckick the [Home] tab to the latest updates. It will make search easy. There are more than 1300 posts to different brand TVs now. Pull up older posts there.Blinking codes and related troubleshooting to may Brand TVs are described in detail there.

Try sony directly or GOOGLE the model and item wanted.

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There may be no horizontal ouput, Check C515 & 516 and the jungle IC, IC206.

Hope that helps

The tv power supply board is the causes and the problems.That the board,that where the a/c power cord plug into it.Tries websites Shopjimmy.com,Ebay.com to buy a whole refurbish power supply board for the replacement.