Well you certainly make your times interesting.
You buy a TV that either arrives with or rapidly develops a fault with its backlights. This fault gets worse and you decide it is a PSU fault without doing any proper diagnostics. This doesn't cure the problem with the baclights so you think it is the main board at fault. So you buy a main board from a different model TV and find that doesn't work, indeed its worse because now the display doesn't come on at all. You can't see the (physical) difference between the 'correct' and 'incorrect' main boards. Somewhere along the line you decide the fault is the IR cable (or did that actually get broken - I can't recall). You now decide it must be an issue with the baclights, and we know the saga started with one of them being faulty.
So where from here? A new pair of backlights and hope that nothing else has been damaged by your activities. And why do Samsung only have one in stock not two - the TV being a few years old and thus in cosumer electronics terms several generations behind the times they won't be producing replacement modules in large batches only in small batches at premium costs. And will Shopjimmy get any in from their supply chain? That could be a long wait given the exact model you've got is several years old and they source their parts from "cosmetically defective" new TVs.

Then of course you have a working 55 inch TV, but it is not a Samsung and does work so is of no use to you.....

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Bob Smith
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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

No second TV? A good few post ago you said you had one but it didn't have all the "fancy bits" you wanted so I suggested a couple of solutions that would solve tha problem and cost far less than the rare parts for the Samsung.

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Bob Smith
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I'm confused.....
I thought you'd just acquired a functioning 55" tv. But now you appear to be canabilising it to get a "broken" one working. Or have I missed something?

The heatsink is from a TCL 55US57 TV, I don't own a 55US57 TV, I own a fully working and factory refurbished TCL 55S401 TV, so yeah you missed something.

As ever Vic as zoon as anyone shows you something you've already declared that does not sit well with your currently desired status you throw in lots of stray things.
Personally I don't are that the parts are unavailable, it is you that is making a big thing of that situation
You moan about "keyed" connectors, they only require a little understanding and care to undo, your moaning just demonstrates the lack of one of those.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

As ever Vic as zoon as anyone shows you something you've already declared that does not sit well with your currently desired status you throw in lots of stray things.

Yes, our dear Vic is a master of misdirection.
But, Vic is gonna do what Vic is gonna do, so there is little point in chastising him about it.

Meow.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

As ever Vic as zoon as anyone shows you something you've already declared that does not sit well with your currently desired status you throw in lots of stray things.

Yes, our dear Vic is a master of misdirection.
But, Vic is gonna do what Vic is gonna do, so there is little point in chastising him about it.

Meow.

+1

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Id like to know how much the Saga TV cost and how much money you have invested in the random replacement of parts so far?

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Old James

but of course some don't like seeing Me succeed, so it's put downs and shaming, which is wrong, and I totally reject that, don't like that?

Vic your paranoids are showing. I think all would like to see you succeed but most all would have taken a different path.

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About $80.00 total, which includes the labor of testing the psu board.

People just cause they can post here, does not give them the right to tell Me what I can and can not do.

How much did the TV itself cost?

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Old James

Look this far from civilization, the only place for the Samsung would be the trash bin...

Most of them are by now, but why do you keep wasting $'s on what was just crap to start with Vic (it's just like those poor performing power hungry GTX580's you bought, not mentioning the water cooling parts for them) and I'm over 2hrs away from any sort of place that others would call anywhere near real civilisation.

Cheers.

Puff Puff Pass --------->

Look this far from civilization, the only place for the Samsung would be the trash bin...

Most of them are by now, but why do you keep wasting $'s on what was just crap to start with Vic (it's just like those poor performing power hungry GTX580's you bought, not mentioning the water cooling parts for them) and I'm over 2hrs away from any sort of place that others would call anywhere near real civilisation.

Cheers.

Well that will change asap Wiggo, but I have to wait for a check to come in from the Liheap program, and for February to get here, and the last post was about the TV, not a 1070 Ti.

So your going to spend Your Liheap money on parts that you have no clue that will work, And not its intended purpose for those funds? Sure sounds like a case of fraud to me.
Of the many cases where familys need those funds, Your going to piss it away on a broken ass SAGA TV.
If I had a phone number to report you to the governing bodies, I would in a heart beat.

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It is a grant for a specific purpose, not for general expenditure", so thus you declaring you are going to spend it on anything other than that for which it is intended is "to receive money with the intent to commit fraud", or, if others are involved "to conspire to commit fraud". I understand that both are felonies, thus you could face a jail term - and I don't want that to happen to you.
Ah - sub-meters - used in many multi-occupancy locations to provide an interface between the incoming feed (which is billed to the site account holder) and to the individual user.

Going back a few posts - you state that you've spent $80 on the bits for the Samsung, however, only a few days before Christmas it was "about $99", and when I add up the figures that you've thrown around it is nearer $140. Maybe you've used $80 worth of all the parts you've used, maybe you've had a few refunds, or maybe you've just not added things up correctly. Whichever is true, there is another $120 to $350 (depending on where you manage to get the LED strips from) to hopefully get it into a working state. Then what are you going to do with your two 55inch TVs in you tiny home - surely one of them will have to go?

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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Vic, been watching this thread for many hours think it's time you took a chill pill and lie down, considering the price of a new tv today and with warranty that is attached, would be the better option
than spending on parts to get an old out dated model running that may die "totally" shortly after getting it working again, as most know electrical stuff and most stuff are designed to last
no more than 3- 5 years..
Do yourself a favour mate and save your pennies and buy a new tv that has a warranty..

But please get off your high horse and stop abusing people!..

There is a time when you have to weigh up the costs of fixing vs replacing is all people are trying to put across!

Anyhow Happy New Year to All..

On the video card thing 2 gtx1060 3gb would cost a bit less than a 1070ti and do more work.

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Vic, I run a system with a pair of Asus GTX1060 turbo, and another with a pair of Asus GTX1070ti turbo. Both run far cooler than I expected. Both dump the heat out of the case, unlike the Strix which dump the majority into the case. The blast of air from them is far more than I expected so I'm not sure where you get the impression that the rear vent is in anyway "too small".
I've gone for single fan, external exhaust for all my recent GPUs as they appear to run at the same temperature as the multi fan equivalents, but get the heat out of the case, and the fans last significantly longer.
But, as it has been said many times "yer pays yer money and makes yer choice".

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Don't get too carried away with the size of the exhast ports as the crtical parts of these cooling systems are the fans and fins on the heat sinks which are very different to those used on earlier generations.
Core count should be read alongside memory bandwidth, bus width as they are just as important. Although, in general, those do vary with core count.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

[quote]Look this far from civilization, the only place for the Samsung would be the trash bin...

Most of them are by now, but why do you keep wasting $'s on what was just crap to start with Vic (it's just like those poor performing power hungry GTX580's you bought, not mentioning the water cooling parts for them) and I'm over 2hrs away from any sort of place that others would call anywhere near real civilisation.

Cheers.

Well that will change asap Wiggo, but I have to wait for a check to come in from the Liheap program, and for February to get here, and the last post was about the TV, not a 1070 Ti.

So your going to spend Your Liheap money on parts that you have no clue that will work, And not its intended purpose for those funds?
Sure sounds like a case of fraud to me.
Of the many cases where familys need those funds, Your going to piss it away on a broken ass SAGA TV.
If I had a phone number to report you to the governing bodies, I would in a heart beat.

No I'm getting a 1070 Ti card, but then you are probably confused.

Fraud?

BS, do you even know what a sub meter is?

Of course not, typical jumping to conclusions, the park has an SCE account, I have an account with the park, but then you've never lived in a mobile home park, just in a stick built home.

The check is to be deposited to My bank account, as reimbursement for My electrical expenses, so how is that fraud?

Think hard on that.

Since it's reimbursement, it's not fraud, and is mine to use, it will make My PC more energy efficient, and that's a good thing.

It's a grant, so no fraud... https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ocs/programs/liheap[/quote
Well I do live in a mobile home park. Its a double wide as a matter of fact. My home is 20 years old and paid for. I get sewer and water for free. (well that is factored in my lot rent )I have my own electric meter and for my propane.
Unlike your home I only have one outside light switch that dosent work and that will be fixed in the spring. And I dont need 50' extension cords to power other rooms. instaed of buying junk parts for the SAGA TV or buying GPU cards , Why not fix your electrical problems?
We have HEAP here in NY state to. its called Home energy assistance program. Its for poor folks who have a hard time paying winter energy uses.
Im sure there are crack heads and alcoholics who use the money for other uses. But then I havent seen any post on the SETI@ home boards bragging they are going to buy GPU cards or fix an old junk TV either.
Thanks for the number. But i wont call it. Id rather see you hoist your self on ypur own petard.

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Old James

Anyone else think someone has not left the building? Or is my earworm detector faulty?

hopefully 2018 will be better

I add my hopes to yours, sir :-)

Anyone else think someone has not left the building? Or is my earworm detector faulty?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKu7TYWNxqA