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Old 04-09-2014, 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Kamakiri View Post
... I flipped the switch to get crosshairs for alignment, and smoke started pouring out from underneath . I shut the set down, flipped the switch back and forth a couple times (it was sticky), turned it on, been fine ever since. Don't know why, don't know how, but it's had well over 20 hours of play since and everything's been fine.
If you get around to diagnosing it, it will be interesting to know how this switch is related to smoke. I would think it's only a video source switch, so how it could affect something high power enough to smoke seems mysterious.
Maybe it also sets width and height to nominal?
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