C2290H / GEC [TV]

• No picture. Raster with vertical black lines over whole screen
• Strange picture with no colour. The verticals are bent and smeared.
• Blank raster and no channel change.
• Line output transistor S/C after 1 mins to 2 days.
• Red raster and white horizontal lines on TXT.
• Picture over bright on the left hand side, getting darker towards the right hand side of screen.
• Poor synchronisation, no tuning lock.
• Excessively bright with flyback lines.
• Remote control handset will not stay in its compartment drawer (ejects).
• Set dead with the standby indicator on and the main board fuse blackened.
• Height reduces on warm up.
• Rippling picture and audio buzz. (C2290H tip from GEC)
• Field synchronisation is weak and top of picture has line pulling.
• No picture. No audio. via AV.
• The picture looks as though it is made up of tiny black or white squares depending on picture content, with no shade difference between black and white. (C2290H GEC repair tip)
• Incorrect display and functions. (C2290H tip from GEC)
• No cold start.
• Tripping at switch on.
• Set comes on in video mode int. No channel select.
• Barely visible raster with no signal content.
• Very weak field sync with severe line pulling at the top of picture, also effecting audio level.
• Intermittent standby.
• No picture. in the centre.
• Lack of brightness.
• Remote control affects VT7 and other makes of video.
• Video crushing.
• Set continuies to operate in the standby mode.
• Continues to run when standby is selected.
• Set comes on in video mode. Intermittently selects off-air and tunes slowly, but no stations selected.
• No vision. (service info for GEC -C2290H)
• Faded picture and flyback lines.
• Inadequate field sync and line pulling. (service info for GEC -C2290H)
• Screen is blank on left hand side, teletext is ok.
• Field jitter intermittently.
• Left hand side of raster bright.
• Intermittently dead.
• No raster, sound ok. (GEC - C2290H information)
• Intermittent field jitter and small variation in height.
• Field bounce. Intermittently top inch of picture disappears.
• Teletext lines covering the top one third of screen.
• Intermittent loss of station. Picture returns if channel button pushed.
• Picture comes on orange on one side of the screen, then the whole of the screen. The orange goes and you just make out picture in the background, then lines come on the picture.
• No picture.
• Picture goes dark. (service info for GEC -C2290H)
• Bright high-contrast picture and loud sound, with the brightness, volume, contrast and colour controls inoperative.
• Dead. Stuck in standby.
• Dull raster.
• Blank picture. No channel change.
• Stuck in standby.
• Loss of picture after 10 mins.
• Poor synchronisation and no tuning lock.
• Intermittent loss of station. If you push channel button picture comes back.
• Blank raster.
• Small picture in stand-by.
• No channel change, blank raster.
• Text drop out.
• Low contrast, brightness and colour. Controls have no effect.
• No picture just vertical lines.
• Screech from power supply, set works but has line pairing
• Receiver still operates when put into standby mode.
• Frame foldover excessive height.
• Bright on left hand side of screen.
• Sound, brightness, colour and contrast controls not functioning. Excessive sound.
• Top frame cramp or gross non linearity in the middle of part of the raster.
• Bright picture with flyback lines for first 20 mins.
• Dead. "1" in display.
• Set in permanent standby.
• Frame roll.
• Weak picture with flyback lines. (C2290H tip from GEC)
• Bright picture with flyback lines. (C2290H GEC repair tip)
• No switching to standby.
• Left hand side of screen has flyback lines.
• Vertical collapse (intermittently). (GEC - C2290H information)
• Blank white raster with flyback lines.
• Dead. Standby light is on.
• Stuck on stand-by.
• Intermittently sound crackles.
• Appliance looks dead but channel LED lit. (GEC - C2290H information)
• Set trips after approx. ten seconds.
• No TXT.
• Raster blanked out. No drive to rgb driver transistors from IC501. (C2290H GEC repair tip)
• Appliance works at switch on for ten seconds to ten minutes, then the seven segment display goes out, the picture and sound disappear and the three LED's on the front light up.
• Line output transistor goes S/C (every 2 days after 10 mins).
• Field size varies or field collapse.
• Weak contrast, no colour. Sound OK; controls have no effect.
• Intermittently going to standby.
• Intermittent picture increases in size with the brightness varying then turning itself into standby.
• Small picture on stand-by.
• Frame rolling.
• Does not switch to standby.
• Frame foldover and rolling. May start with excessive height. (GEC - C2290H information)
• Picture composed of large white dots.
• Set dead. HT voltage higher than the correct 112V.
• Insufficient line and field synchronization.
• Appliance continues to operate in standby. (C2290H tip from GEC)
• No picture. Audio OK.
• No functions.
• Top of picture folded over.
• In trip.
• Intermittently picture bounces.
• No sound or picture, channel identification lit.
• No picture, sound OK. (C2290H GEC repair tip)
• No functions on front controls.
• Search tuning does not lock and sound is muted.
• No results and a check on the 111V line showed that it was at 20V via the start up diode D908.
• Set comes on in video mode intermittent no channel select.
• Incorrect display and functions. (C2290H GEC repair tip)
• When switching to standby appliance remains on.
• Line jitter.
• Intermittent picture increases in size with varying brightness then goes by itself into standby.
• Picture pulling on dark scenes with a light background like sky.
• Trips intermittently. (service info for GEC -C2290H)
• Excessive brightness occurred very intermittently.
• No picture. Channel indicator number '1' is lit.
• Trips into standby.
• Picture made up of small squares.
• Intermittent field jitter, or tiny height variations.
• Poor sync; no tuning lock.
• No audio. No picture.
• No raster.