Sorry hang-the-9 But your suggestion to Deep 6 the cheap, piece of crap TV, might have been great advice but you failed to answer his basic question as to how fix it. Most people come here to attempt to fix equipment problems. The last time I needed advice I wrote to Dear Abby -- Oh I guess she is dead now. So much for advice. BTW I was just asked today to try to fix the same problem with the same model TV. If I fix it I will provide an answer to his question of years ago . Also the old parts, boards, for this model are very cheap these days; likely because most of these cheap TVs are broken. John