 Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| The_AntiRAM, thank you for the most useful suggestions.
Of course, first I'll try to check for dry joints. If that fails to give results, there's a disposal of "bio-dangerous" electrical equipment nerby in my city, so will try to find the matching set with (hopefully) working tuner... Didn't know that this set is not "too old" for finding replacement parts, though. Thanks for the reply. Best Regards. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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OK. Your problem it's related to dry joints located in tuner board or may be that the Tuning Synthesizer is damaged, therefore the MCU says 8 LED Flashes beause can't "Communicate" with that IC. Try to find a Tuner Board where TV Sets are disposed for Recycling. javascript:emoticon('  ')
Sad If you're lucky enough you can find one similar set equipped with same chassis. javascript:emoticon('  ')
Smile (That model of Sony isn't "too old" but replacing parts may be hard to find or to much expensive) |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| The model is too old, I can't buy new tuner board.
Apart from that, it's price would be far above than TV set is worth. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| If 8 blinks means a fault with the tuner I'd replace the tuner. | |
| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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My hope was that this is a common failure, whether the model is US, European, Japanese or whichever. The fix should be applicable even to different model of the TV set like KV-29F3D, especially if it has the same chassis (BE-3D). The only difference may be in features: e.g. my set does not support Dolby Pro Logic. I expected that similar (if not the same) things should be inspected to troubleshoot error #8, regardless of the TV set "geographicality". How about giving me "best educated guess"? Thanks. |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| I don't have an index out side of US models. | |
| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Well, it's an old model... CRT TV set from 1997. Bought in 1998. Thank you for the suggestion, but I doubt it has anything to do with the firmware or that firmware on this TV could be updated... Of course, I may be wrong. 
Cheers. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like a firmware issue locking up the tuner. Call Sony and ask them if they have a firmware update. | |
| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, but I have the set in standby mode all the time, and it comes on using remote. Then I only power it off into standby mode (via remote). But if I power it off using ON/OFF button on the set itself, it's problematic to power it back on. The actual problem occurs with the ON/OFF button on the set. At first, it took two or three attempts but the problem worsened, so the last time I spent about 2 hours before I managed to power it into standby via the ON/OFF button - tried, failed (error code), disconnected from the wall, waited for 15 mins then repeated powering attempt... According to two seconds "transient problem" in tuning to channel 22 (described in post #1), it indeed migh be a tuner problem.  |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Does the set come on? | |