I was going to play a game on my Saturn earlier today, since I had a few minutes of free time. Everything was normal until I tried turning on my TV. I pressed the power button, and it made a noise like it was going to turn on, then *click!* Nothing. No picture, no sound, nothing. The power light, which is usually always on, went out. The TV is plugged into a power strip, but everything else plugged into it was working with no issues. The very same thing happened to me last week, too (the night I got my Xbox), but that time, I was able to get it working by plugging it into a different outlet on the strip, then plugging it into the one it was in originally. Not this time. Nothing I tried got it working again. It's not like I use my TV to death, either. It's not used any more so than the other TVs we have, which have never had issues.
So now I have a dead TV, and I've had to relocate my Saturn and my Xbox (the two systems I use the most) to the basement. Great.
Geez, that must've been irritating for you. ???
How old is your dead TV?
Basements are win.
The TV sitting in my room is about as old as I am and it still works. Of course, since it's in my room, I don't get all of those fancy channels that I would get if I was out in the living room, but now, if I so desire, I can play Majora's Mask while my sister watches the ever so lame Disney Channel.
EDIT: Gah, I forget words in AIM and put them on TDC. ???
RIP TWILIGHT WOLF'S TELEVISION
He was so young too. :(
I remember when my TV died. I had a formal funeral for it in my backyard (Selective audience only) and had a 21 gun salute. Then the police decided to come mourn for it too.
They have odd ways of showing grief though.
(Disturbing the peace? lolwut?)
Man, they need to have lessons on how to mourn.
I had a TV at the creepy house next door that was ancient... little knobs everywhere? It was grand. We got rid of it, I think.
I wish your television goodnight... forever. <3
The Egyptians, now they knew how to mourn. Shaving their eyebrows...
Quote from: Gamefreak on February 01, 2008, 06:36:13 PM
I remember when my TV died. I had a formal funeral for it in my backyard (Selective audience only) and had a 21 gun salute. Then the police decided to come mourn for it too.
They have odd ways of showing grief though.
(Disturbing the peace? lolwut?)
:P
I had my radio crap out on me once. It wasn't a
nice radio, but it died young... Only 23 years old (radio years).
Haha! "Radio years"? Genius! :P
Thanks for the sympathy and good wishes, everyone. Actually, my TV wasn't even three years old. It would have been, if it had waited until after my birthday (which is about a month away) to kick the bucket.
My dad and I are going to open it up sometime this weekend and see if we can figure out what happened to it. Sort of an autopsy, I suppose. My dad thinks a fuse inside it might have blown, but if it had, how come it did this once before, and then came back to life? He seems to know more about electronics than I do, though, so we'll see.
Just wondering, But i"m curious about where your dad went to College, what Degree he got, his major and so forth.
JQ, our dad teaches how to fix small engines (sumut like that). He can't be that bad.
And LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL to ZV about "radio years" lol
...and how much are radio years?
...Because cat years are 7.
Even though Dad is an absolute wizard when it comes to engines, they have pretty much nothing to do with electronics... My dad is pretty good with electronics, though. He's fixed a lot of stuff, actually, and he's great with diagnostic work.
Yup yup true dat true dat
Nudge nudge wink wink say no more say no more.
Quote from: TPZeldaFire on February 02, 2008, 02:18:22 AM
Yup yup true dat true dat
Nudge nudge wink wink say no more say no more.
NO! I have to listen to my band director say that at least once a day!
And don't forget to file an autopsy report so you can use it in court.
oh man
do you suspect that it is...
MURDER ? ! ?
Time of death: Sometime on February 1st, 2008. Cause of death unknown. Victim may have been slowly dying for several days beforehand; Poison is a possibility.
Well, folks, it turns out that my TV didn't totally die after all! My dad was right: it was a bad fuse. However, it didn't blow out; the little wire inside it that melts if too much voltage goes through it appeared to have broken (though we've got no clue how). He thinks it might have broken a while ago, and it jiggled out of position when I plugged my Xbox in, then jiggled back into place. So we got some new fuses from Radio Shack, and we tried them out. Each one blew when we tried turning the TV on. Then my dad tried a higher voltage automotive fuse. Guess what? It worked! So we went to Radio Shack again, bought some higher voltage, slow-blow fuses, put one in my TV, and it works with no issues now! Keep your fingers crossed for me, though.
And JQ, my dad got a degree in Electronics Technology. He's also been teaching small engine repair (part-time) at the community college for nearly 20 years.
Still...it kind of makes you wish that circuit breakers were installed instead of fuses. :P
Quote from: MagmarFire on February 05, 2008, 02:14:37 PM
Still...it kind of makes you wish that circuit breakers were installed instead of fuses. :P
Indeed. Of course, if that were the case, then my TV would probably die each time I turned it on.
*Power on*
*Too much voltage!*
*Circuit breaks*
*Flip switch back into position*
*Power on*
*Repeat*
I could probably install a higher-voltage switch or something, though.
So, I guess "My TV was in a coma" would be a better title?
Yeah, I suppose that would be more a appropriate title now. Or perhaps "My TV Had a Near-Death Experience."
Anyways, a status report: My TV has been working with no issues since the new fuse was installed. I hope it stays that way.
Ayksellant! ^^
Guess it was just an old fuse, eh?
Yep, it must have just been the fuse that was bad. However, there does seem to be a voltage spike when the TV turns on that caused some of the other fuses that were tested to burn out. I'm not sure if something inside the TV is shorting out and bypassing a regulator or something, or maybe we just tried the wrong kind of fuses. Oh well, it works now, and that's the important thing.
Maybe 'transplant saves life' would be a good title.
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Spambot, I'd like to hire you personally to drive my limo to the airport. I live at 124 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean. If you hit the Mariana Trench, then you've gone too far, but you can pick up my uncle while you're down there.
Wtf. A spambot reviving an old topic about TW and his comatose Television. What will they think of next?
Cupcakes on unicycles?
Quote from: MagmarFire on August 18, 2011, 02:41:09 PM
Cupcakes on unicycles?
This is meant to sound like what I think it sounds like, right?
If this is what you think it sounds like (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq9IrIR5C28), then yes. Yes, it is. ;D