The problem started three weeks ago, the set turned itself off after about five minutes and kept doing it until we gave up in frustration.

The engineer came out and replaced a "PCP Ass text board" according to the bit of paper. This was done while I was at work, so my daughter didn't ask any questions.

It's just happened again and this time it can't be turned on at all.

So my question is, does anyone know of this problem or can give me any information as to what a PCB text board is, or what it does?

The set is a couple of years old and it's not the first time the engineers have been out for other problems, loss of sound, picture freezing ect.

Is it time to change or replace the set?

[JayCee]

Originally Posted by Raeser

The problem started three weeks ago, the set turned itself off after about five minutes and kept doing it until we gave up in frustration.

The engineer came out and replaced a "PCP Ass text board" according to the bit of paper. This was done while I was at work, so my daughter didn't ask any questions.

It's just happened again and this time it can't be turned on at all.

So my question is, does anyone know of this problem or can give me any information as to what a PCB text board is, or what it does?

The set is a couple of years old and it's not the first time the engineers have been out for other problems, loss of sound, picture freezing ect.

Is it time to change or replace the set?

The symptoms you have experienced are usually caused by a faulty text pcb (Teletext Printed Circuit Board)...there are a couple of tiny chips on this plug-in panel which give problems due to dry soldered joints on the pins of the chips. A good engineer can "reflow" these pins and cure it...or just replace the panel...which is what he has done by the sounds of things.
If the set has gone off again he has either replaced the panel with another identical faulty panel or this has been a red herring and the fault lies elsewhere in the set...there are another couple of transistors mounted on a different part of the main circuit board which can also go dry-jointed causing much the same symptoms.
You don't say if your set was repaired under guarantee or if you paid for this repair but the end result is the same...you need to call them back.

Many thanks JayCee, it's still under warranty so no problems with the callback. We just seem to have picked one that needs lots of attention. When it works, it's a lovely tv.

I've asked my daughter to call me when the engineer arrives so I can speak with him, any knowlege that I can arm myself with will help a lot.