Hello,

The problem I have is; my TV turns itself off, I chaged the battries in the remote just in case, the same thing happens. The other thing is, just before it turns off, the picture goes a bit wild, hard to explain exactly what happens the picture kind off goes fuzzy.

My dad said it could be something to do with a ht board not being plugged in properly? Is this true? Ps. My dads no expert,

Would be greatfull for any advise, thanks

Nige

Most likley what it could be is an interference in the TV. Modern TV's have a feature that will shut itself off when it is not receiving a picture. For instance, after so many minutes of "snow" it will shut off.

Sometimes an interference can cause this although you may not realize it. You know the old problem of running an electric egg beater, or vacume cleaner in the house causes static lines across the TV, sometimes this can make the TV think there is no signal at shut itself off.

On a more personal story, my old oil furnace would cause an interference when ever it was running. When ever the oil pump was pumping oil, it would cause an interference in the TV that was bad enough to make it shut itself off.

Never really remedied that problem, it had its good days and its bad days. Finally the furnace just died and I replaced it with a new electric, and the problem went away.

Anyway, I suspect its an interference issue. Perhaps moving the TV further from the source of the interference might help.

No wait, it wasn't the furnace, it was the electric fence, the transformer on the electric fence shorted out and was causing the interference shutting off the TV.

However the furnace still put the lines on it, but it never was enough to shut the TV down.
It just came back to me. Its been a few years back.

If it is an older TV then the tube is going bad, if its new it sounds like a bad power supply.