We used the TV yesterday AM without problem. In the evening we found that power button light on front of TV would flicker briefly then go out, no power to the screen. Tried turning on manually and with remote. We tried unplugging and reconnecting as suggested in the manual, no change. Then it started making a high pitched noise which stopped when we unplugged it.
That high pitched noise you're hearing is the power supply telling you that it has too much of a load on it and lowered its operating frequency which in effect cuts its output way down! Normally you don't hear any thing since the power supply operates at a frequency that's beyond human hearing. In an RCA this indicates more than likely that your horizontal output transistor is shorted and this short was caused by the flyback transformer shorting. This is a common happening with RCA's You'd need to take to a tv shop and have it checked out. Stargazer
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My RCA has been turning itself off and on for a few days now. It has a history of the picture shrinking horizontally then snapping back to full size. Sounds like the transistor problem mentioned here. My question now is: Is it worth fixing? It's 6 years old.
lameastra, we just encountered the same problem as you. Our RCA F27650 32" TV was working this afternoon. When we got home this evening and tried to turn it on, the TV would not turn on and the power light blinked green several times then stopped. We also heard a clicking sound each time it blinked. We tried unplugging everything and turning on the TV, but that did not work. The toll free RCA troubleshoot department has been no help either. We would greatly appreciate any assistance on this!
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