I have a 42 inch Vizio Gallevia flat screen TV just under four (4) years old. After approximately ten minutes or so being turned on - three quarters of the screen from top to bottom goes darker - the top quarter of the screen is normal. After that - the darkening goes from side to side...After 20 minutes or so the picture is normal, and continues to be for the duration of watching TV...I have spoken to two flat screen repair men, and one says it's a bad "inverter module" - cost to fix = $150.00 or so...Another flat screen repair fellow said, "it's a bad LCD screen internally - not cost effective or worth fixing." Also, I received one posting reply from fiya stating, "it's possibly a loose backlight connection, or the backlight itself." Does anyone know definitively what is wrong with my Vizio TV??? Thank you!

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Posted on Jun 26, 2009

SOURCE: 42 inch DO42746 no picture or sound

It is still possible the z sustain board is bad. or an x driver board.

Anonymous

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Posted on Mar 25, 2010

SOURCE: My 46 inch Sanyo flat screen turns on and right off again

Might be worth it if it cost over 500.00 dollars, I had a simular problem with a Yamaha HTR receiver... the cause was the power adapter/converter was overheating... so it sounds like something along those lines... It cost me 129.00 dollars to fix my receiver so I would say 100.00 dollars or less... I saw a 42" LCD at the local electronic's store selling New ones for about 400.00 now..

Anonymous

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Posted on Oct 22, 2010

SOURCE: I have a Sanyo 46

There is no solution this has happened to me 3 times in 13 months each time they replaced the screen panel (basicly the whole TV) I have a 2 year service contract, the next time it does it they will not bring it back but will write me a check for the price I payed for this peice of ****.!!! Do not bother fixing it.

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