Hey guy's,
Thanks for the help so far. Honestly I didn't know these tv's had a chip, that dedicated to the vert. circuits.
Well, anyway's after work and some stuff I had to do, I tore the back off in the living room...
WOW! This thing is DUSTY! Im a little surprised it never smelled(like when tubes burn dust). Also shocked at how small the board is for all the functions this tv has.
After some searching I found the Vertical Chip. It's a LA7841 chip with 7 pins.
http://www.audiolabga.com/pdf/LA7841.pdf I found that one of the pins(#2) does have a bad soldier joint. Looks like it even broke loose, but looking at the surrounding board, it looks as if that pin's overheated some...idk. I also easily found that 35V 220uF cap too, that was close by.
Honestly I think it did kill the chip, like what radiotvnut said in#2, the cap likely went bad and took out the chip, because it did have an issue at the top of the screen before it went.
So basically, replace that cap and the Vert. chip/IC and see how it goes from there?
I was also wondering, how do I go about discharging the crt/high voltage in this set safely? without destroying anything. Normally, I would short it out on the chassis, but this don't have a full metal chassis.
Can I also disconnect all the wires that i can to pull the board out easily, without worring that i may destroy its programming(since these newer sets all have menu's instead of actual knobs that controll the settings)...like i said, I dont know that much about these newer one's
I havn't decided yet on the schematic. Sam's wants $22 for a copy and that sounds kind of expensive.
I got a few pics down below.
Thanks very much so far guy's.