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I have a samsung 43 inch plasma screen thats a lil over a year old and all of a sudden it wont cut on. i was using it the night before and now nothing. it makes the noise like it wants to cut on but no picture. lil led flashes a steady flash. I looked in back of tv and nothing looks like its messed up. can anyone help me model number is PN43D430A3DXZA version N102
 

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Call Samsung. Sounds like(or at least it could be) a dead power supply from bad capacitors. Long running problem for Samsung TV.
 

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I did they wanted to charge me to have someone look at it. had me test it for them couple different things different plug in blah blah blah. I looked at all the capacitors and they all looked fine. None were domed up like I read about
 

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Unless you want to buy an Ebay power supply(last I checked...which wasn't recently, there were people selling repair or exchange...or whole power supplies) repair/exchange.

Just like Onkyo X07 HDMI board(707, 807 etc) there are "fix-its" for Samsung. Unless you can drop it off somewhere for a quick look-see...

99% of the advice you are going to get is power supply. And even then it is a shot in the dark.
 

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when u say power supply do u mean cord? or actual motherboard? sorry new to all this.
 

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Not the cord. The "innards" that cord plugs into.

Removing the power supply isn't difficult. You have to unplug the TV for 24-48 hours for complete electrical discharge first.

You can't "look in there", you have to remove it.
 

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Ok thanks. When I said looked in there I just meant at the capacitors since all I can find online for the most part is that those I guess "explode" and u change those to fix it.
 

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