[freakaftr8]

You guys are all on the right track. Cut the pins and remove them one by one to keep from destroying the board. Replace STK, sanyo STK,s are ok, seem better than the orig LG made ones. Keep the buffer board disconnected when you put the the board back in. If you can hear the STK working, then connect buffer, get ready to pull the plug if the screen dont look right, the buffers will destroy your ysus fast. It damages the mosfets first. Speckles yes in LG sets are ok, tweak the VS drive on the power supply, 10v +- is safe, sont ruun it above those limits. I have found that speckles seem to dissapear when the buffers wear too. LG panels age quick, when they have reached near ill fated doom, they have black speckles followed by red and green and blue sometimes. Letterbox mode kills panels too.