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Fixing a Roku TV

 

Short term renter reported hearing a popping noise followed by an unresponsive TV in their stay in August.   No other electronic had a problem and every outlet seemed to work.

Upon troubleshooting the TV was in fact dead.  No response using any of the manufacturers troubleshooting directions.   

I decided to see if I could replace any internal part that might be broken to salvage the TV instead of figuring out how to dispose of it and the expense of having to buy a new one. 

I spent time trying to figure out what the problem was and guessed it might be related to the power supply (seeing as no power seemed to be getting to the TV at all).   Opened the TV and saw what might be a blown ceramic capacitor on what I'm guessing is the power supply board.


 I tried to find the part online with no initial luck.  After a while I stumbled across the part from encompass.com for $30 new. Ordered it and received it a few days later.  


 Replacing the board was easy.  Detached 2 cables and 4 screws, took out the old board, put in the new and reattached everything and was done.  TV works again! 


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