Vizio lcd TV D32x-D1 Lightning Surge, No power, Blown, not working, Do it yourself, fixed $save$
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- I had lightning strike up the road from my house. We got a power surge in the house and blew two electric appliances that weren't plugged into surge-protected outlets.
I hoped it was a blown fuse, but it wasn't. I took the TV apart to identify what was blown so I could order parts because the power boards are all different. You want to make sure you get the right parts. What I needed was another motherboard.
I searched around on websites, a lot of suppliers were out of stock. So, I ended up buying a used one on eBay $17 free shipping. There are usually a few for sale on there around that price. Buy from a seller that has decent feedback. People part out TVs for one reason or another. They can be found online elsewhere, but are much more expensive.
This is actually a very easy repair. The hardest part is getting the tabs that hold the bezel to the rear case to release. I broke one, but they really aren't that important being there are many screws that hold them together too. This is a "Do it yourself" step by step disassembly to replace the power board in the TV and put it back together. There isn't much to the TV to replace- LCD, power board, motherboard, LCD display board, wifi board and that's about it. I hope this helps get your TV back up and running again. Like, Share and Subscribe because you never know what I'm going to do next.
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Wish you had mentioned the part numbers for the power board and the other board. It will help people trying to locate these parts. Nice video 👍. Thanks.
I would have, but there are some variations of components in TVs even in the same model line. I felt if I put the numbers from my TV and someone else was different they would complain that they bought stuff cause I directed them to. So it's best to pull the correct numbers from your components to get the correct stuff the first time. Thanks for the comment.
I was able to perform this same repair with the help of your video. Thanks so much!
Sylvia Hjertstrom I'm glad I could help and thank you for the comment 😊
Thank you soon much, just had a power outtage, spend 20$ and replaced board, now TV works 💪 thank you
I'm glad to help. Thanks for the comment.
I have this same exact tv model. i was hoping you were going to get in where the back lights are but you did not need to go that far. At least I know now how to begin taking it apart. Thanks for your video. PS I like that pillow idea.
On the left is the power board, the right is the mother board, the bottom center is the T-con board. The T-con takes the signal from the motherboard and processes it into horizontal and vertical lines for the LCD. Generally if you have half a picture or a distorted picture it's the T-con board.
If you have breaking up, freezing, severe pixelation on the entire screen, no picture or sound it is more than likely the motherboard.
If it's just the LED lighting, it could be the power board not supplying the right voltage to the LEDs.
Shine a bright flashlight into the LCD screen real close and look to see if you can see the pixels/ picture. If you can, then the LEDs are out and probably need a power board replacement.
If you can't see any pixels or picture then it could be the motherboard.
I hope this helps, thanks for the comment.
@@ZeroFuelRequired Thanks for your reply but I was unable to find replacement led strips for my TV . Every seller I checked was out of stock and I got tired of looking for them so I just trashed the whole TV.
@@bluegirl4326 that sucks. Sorry it didn't work out. Thank you for the question anyway.
Blown opto-isolator? I wouldn’t have suspected that. Good job for sharing this info
Thanks to your video I was able to repair my TV Thanks
I'm glad my video helped. Thank you for the comment.
We have a Vizo tv that is about 8 years old. We have never had any problems with it until yesterday. It was plugged directly into the wall outlet and always has been. Yesterday the winds blew really hard for about 15 minutes and we had a short downpour of rain. About 2 hours later our power went out (figured a tree down the road had dropped a limb on the wires). It was off for almost an hour and then came back on (no on and off just a steady "I'm back on now" and boy were we thankful. 100-degree heat no shade and all-electric is no fun when the power goes out. About 20 minutes after the power came back on hubby went in and turned on the tv to watch it. It stayed on for a few minutes then started turning off by itself. Finally, after it did that for about 5 times the power would come on but no picture and no sound. Decided to leave it off for the rest of the night and just try it again in the morning, still no picture and no sound. Maybe 6 hours later tried to turn it back on and it still had no picture and no sound, couldn't get even the menu to come up. Now the power will not come on at all. Even tried doing a reset on it and plugging it into a different outlet. Anyone have any suggestions as to what might be wrong with it? I'm a 65-year-old woman and I'm willing to tackle taking it apart to check it out, but I don't know anything about TVs when it comes to repairs. I'm trying to figure out if it is the main circuit board or the power board because I'm not in the position to buy a new tv and I'm hoping the replacement part would be cheaper than buying a new tv. Ok folks help me out here.
I've had power surges come right through my cable box then through the hdmi and blow out the main board on my TV before. It sounds like the main board went 1st and not that is your fault but trying to turn in on may have fried the power board too. Or at a minimum popped the power board fuse. People are always selling parts of TVs online. Check Facebook market place for your exact model you might get lucky and find someone selling one cheap with a broken screen that you can pull the motherboard and power board and put in yours. Or check ebay you might find a deal on both from the same seller. I hope this helps, thanks for the question and I wish you luck finding the parts.
How much volts should the TV have when checking the volts?
Even if the majority of the back panel breaks off, it just produces better cooling.
Also produces much larger openings for dust lol
Ive got a 2018 55" that got hurt by a lightning strike.
Is it possible the electrical spike made it past the power board?
Dont want to waste a single dollar or minute attempting to repair it, if potentially the boards beyond the power could be damaged
Can vouch made it past the power board, 65" lg 4k - currently waiting for a new main board to arrive.
Nice Video, where did you get your power board to buy.
The easiest and cheapest place to find them is Ebay. Just search for your TV brand and model number. Compare your power board serial numbers to make sure you find the correct one.
Thank You,👍'
Thanks.
Having an issue with this tv. When I turn it on the backlight flashes once quickly and goes out. Checked the display with a bright flashlight as you stated in other comments and it is working correctly, sound and all. Since it does flash when powered up does that sound like the power board or a led lighting issue?
If you had half the screen without an image I'd say it was the T-con board. That's the board in the center with the two ribbon cable going into the screen. I didn't tear the TV any farther apart than what you see in the video. It sounds as though the inverter isn't lighting the LED bulbs in the screen or the LEDs or the LED burnt out which is unlikely. This tv as far as I can tell doesn't have a separate inverter to light up the LEDs, so I am going to say the inverter is in the power board and you could Swap the power board to see if it fixes it. But the power board receives signal from the motherboard to tell the powerboard to turn on the LEDs. So the problem could be in the powerboard or the motherboard and without a voltmeter to test its just a guessing game. Try changing the cheaper of the two parts and see if it fixes it. You might get lucky and someone on Ebay could be selling the powerboard, motherboard & T-con board. all together cheap. I hope this helps and thanks for the question.
I bought a used power board for my 60” tv it still didn’t turn on. So bought a used main board still didn’t turn on. Put back both original parts. Do you know what else could be causing it from turning on?
The power board is usually the first thing to go, it's usually a blown fuse usually right next to where the power cord plugs into the board, that you can check with a volt meter or it could be a 20 cent capacitor that goes bad and will shut the TV down (capacitors are small black soda can looking things on the power board with a silver cap with a x on the silver cap (the top wont be flat they'll buldge that's how you can tell one is bad) ) capacitors have numbers on the side, match them with a new one, solder the old one out and solder new one in(capacitors are really really cheap to buy) when done put back together and test. What type of TV is it? Is it an older fluorescent bulb TV or a newer L.E.D. TV? Does it have a simple power cord(make sure the cord isn't damaged anywhere in line) wiggle the cord to see if it's losing connection in line or does the cord have a power pack inline? If a power pack is inline the power pack could have gone bad and need a new one. With either set of boards installed does it make any sounds or have any lights come on when your press power button on the TV or remote that would tell you it's getting power? If it is getting power then get a flashlight turn it on and put it real close the screen and see if you can see any pixels for an image on the screen, if there is an image(pixels) the light that illuminates the LCD has burnt out or the screen LCD controller the smaller board connected to the screen has malfunctioned. Either it's not working the light or the LCD or both. Then replace it and try again. There's not a whole lot to a LCD TV. The LCD, Lighting, Motherboard, LCD controller board and Power board. You replaced 2 out of 3 boards in it, If you replaced all 3 boards it should be working. It's a process of elimination, replace one at a time until you find the problem. If it's still not working then I would say it's the LCD. About the only test you could do is get a volt meter to check to see if power is coming into the power board from the plug and through the fuse in the power board. There really aren't any other tests that can be performed on the boards without highly specialized equipment and some major electronics knowledge. I hope this helps. Thanks for the question.
i have the same tv,. the power light comes on,, but no picture, when i hold a flash light to it in the dark i can see the netflix
.etc would this be the same board id need ?? the little mosfet on the board does not get warm at all,, and it has that aluminum heat sink on it but no heat.. no visual blown circuits or resistors .etc
If you had half the screen without an image I'd say it was the T-con board. That's the board in the center with the two ribbon cable going into the screen. I didn't tear the TV any farther apart than what you see in the video. It sounds as though the inverter isn't lighting the LED bulbs in the screen or the LEDs or the LED burnt out which is unlikely. This tv as far as I can tell doesn't have a separate inverter to light up the LEDs, so I am going to say the inverter is in the power board and that is the problem. Swap the power board and try it again.
Could you have the new board unpacked next time you do a video? Thanks for sharing this with us.
Marty Lemons I'll try to remember that next time and thanks for the comment.
I thought he did unpacked the new one on the video . Unless i d dream about it
I'll take the time to tell you that if a lightning strike blew the power supply to this device then the outlets WERE NOT surge protected. Check the ground on those outlets for functionality and verify that the polarity is correct. Something isn't set up right on the electrical system to that house. (probably related to grounding, check ground rod outside). For a surge protector to operate it must have a functional grounding system.
You are correct. The rest of my entertainment system is surge protected. I had this TV just for viewing my security cameras and it wasn't. That's definitely my fault. I built my entire 3300 sq ft house myself and wired it myself. You can laugh and say the surge is my fault too but it's not, I wired my 300 amp service feeding 200amp main and a 100 amp main that are feeding 2 secondary panels. The mains have two grounding rods each, that's 4 total. Ground isn't the problem. All outlets in my house are properly grounded. It was the lightning strike a few hundred feet from my house that sounded like it hit my house. Not only did this strike blow out the TV, it back fed through my Comcast cable box the cable itself killing it, it blew out all the cable boxes for the TVs, yet the boxes still had power. It Blew out the comcast internet killing it. Back fed the HDMI that blew out the Hdmi in just about every device in my entertainment center, My 7 hdmi hub is $750 pioneer 7.1 surround stereo "blown", Wii U "blown", Xbox slim"blown", security cameras"blown". It didn't hurt my 55 inch Samsung. I was lucky instead of throwing the Pioneer away, it took months to find a hdmi board for my Pioneer and repair it. I didn't do a video for the repair Just because of how difficult it was to find the hdmi board. The Xbox I just replaced with a Xbox one, the WiiU luckily works on component and my security works on component too, by it knocked out 2 cameras. The security cameras are getting replaced soon. It didn't hurt anything else. But surge protectors don't last forever either. If you've got a 1000 joule projector it would only be good for 10 hits of 100 joules or only One 1000 joule hit and then you are no longer protected. So the next surge you would be SOL. Surge protectors Aren't foolproof. I've thought about putting whole house surge protectors on my mains. Well I hope this clarifies the surge. Thanks for the comment.
@@ZeroFuelRequired I can respect pretty much everything in your reply I was thinking the last sentences you wrote just as I was reading them. I, like you, have done my own wiring and I don't really know if its overkill but I have whole house protectors on all of my main panels and sub-panels, if anything it helps me to sleep a little bit better. (They are large industrial type protection systems that I was fortunate enough to get for free). I am positioned near the top of a mount (about 50-70 feet up from ground level) and I can certainly relate to those "near hits" that sound as if they are direct hits... (I'm considering a method of at least manually disconnecting important and/or sensitive gear during those high intensity storms, because when it comes to those storms that bring about feelings of outrage it seems that nothing is absolutely safe against electricity with so much ummpf behind it). Lightning aside, I would feel a little better if I could figure out a way to secure everything that is exposed to those occasional "howling wind storms" that we get two or three times a year... Best regards and a much "luck" as it takes.
@@CRSolarice Do you have good o'le fashioned Lightning Rods? Even one well placed Lightning Rod higher than everything else can prevent a direct hit. Wind that's another story. About the only thing you can do is slow it down by putting up fence, it's not a cure all but it'll definitely slow it down. I would think most of the prevailing winds generally come out of the same direction. Fence can slow the wind across your property or planting a row of fast growing Arbor Vitae trees, they look nice and grow several feet every year. Small arbor vitae can be bought cheap. Just a thought. Thanks for the comments.
@@ZeroFuelRequired I would never turn one down that's for certain. I've been following the lightning mitigation systems for a few years now and they have been coming up with some intriguing systems to prevent strikes. At first the skeptics had reign but now the physics have caught up and people have been playing around with different charges and various setups that completely make buildings a poor target for lightning. If I only had a bucket of gold stashed in my closet...
Link for the new board to buy one?
rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F173893574587.
Double check it with your model number on your power board if you have it out. It should be correct one for the vizio d32x-d1. Ebay is probably the cheapest place to find it. Hope this helps and good luck.
Mine shows power but the light slowly dims out after a few seconds, was hoping it was a fuse but really think the board may be shot, it stopped working after a storm
@@bakedgodess38 the power light you're seeing might be just enough to light the LED which isn't much. Replacing the power board should fix your problem.
Where do you order the board ?
The cheapest place to find it is on Ebay used. Usually under $20. People part out TVs for one reason or another. They can be found online but are much more expensive. I hope this helps and thanks for the question.
...at the TV board store. Where else? Really if you have to ask a question like that then maybe you should just go back to Walmart and buy another TV. (And get the extended warranty for 17.95$ this time!)
Hello I was wondering where you purchased your replacement parts from. I have same tv with power problems, thanks
Andrew Mathis I searched around on websites, a lot of suppliers are out of stock. So, I ended up buying it on eBay $17 free shipping. There are usually a few for sale on there around that price. Buy from a seller that has decent feedback. Good luck and thanks for the comment.
Thank you I am actually finding a lot on eBay
Somehow the the power surge skipped the power supply and went straight to my motherboard
The power surge may not have come from your power source. A few years ago I had a power surge from a lightening strike on my street come through the cable to blow out my cable box, then out of the cable box through the hdmi to my home theater receiver then out to the wiiU. It killed my cable box and the home theater but the wiiU still worked the hdmi was dead but the component hookup still works to this day. It sucks. I hope you get yours up and running again. Thanks for the comment.
Zero Fuel Required mine may have come from a amazon tv I had connected because the fire tv no longer works I paid $60 for a new board
@@kcastillo1234 did you have a surge? Maybe the surge popped the Amazon TV and if it was plugged into the TV it surged the motherboard. Try doing Google search to see anyone else has had the same problem. Or check to make sure the Amazon tv doesn't have any kind of recall. Maybe complain to Amazon to see if they'll do anything for you as far as replacement or paying for damage.
Zero Fuel Required yes I had a surge one day during a storm it destroyed the fire tv and the TVs motherboard
@@kcastillo1234 I gotcha. Yup probably the fault of Amazon tv. Well thanks for watching and good luck getting your tv fixed. 😁👍