LCD TV dead should I even try to fix it?

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by icenine

No symptoms at all...it just died on me when I started to watch Starship Troopers 3. Yeah the flashlight test works....
are the power supply caps accessible and are they expensive or just common ones you can get at Radio Shack?
thanks!

They're normal electrolytic caps and are cheap. I search on the internet and buy kits for ~$10.00 to save the time of ordering. I 've had good luck with these guys:

http://lcdalternatives.com/Default.aspx

Access to the PS board and inverter board is the difficult part IMO. I have a set of Nylon pry tools for opening plastic cases. Everything is so tightly packed and snapped together. See if you can find a tutorial on the internet for your specific TV. I suspect the same make, model, and run all died about the same time, thus some enterprising individual may have posted a repair procedure.

Given the quick onset of the problem, I'm guessing a bad inverter board.