Earlier last week as my wife and I were watching a movie on the 40XBR we heard a little "pop" noise, and the pic slightly shifted and immediately returned to normal. We looked at each other and said "what was that?". We continued watching our movie, and later I watched the late night news before turning off the TV. Next morning, the TV would not power on, and there was this sequence of 6 or 7 red Led blinking lights. I tried a few more unsucessful attempts, then unplugged the TV from the surge protector for about and hour. Still nothing happened. I repeated this process several times throughout the day but no luck.
By coincidence, a few weeks before, I had been reading about this very same problem on another Forum. It intrigued me because the Sony models were similar and the frequency of this failure was amazing. I even bragged on my TV a little, and hoped it did not happen to me. Well, knock on wood my friends, this failure has bitten my beloved Tube as well.
I immediately & frantically got back on the internet and re-read the threads, and emailed Icaillo. Hopefully w/his help, I'll be able to report a fix. I'm in the process of gathering the parts and tools needed for this repair, and will list them. The tools seem to be harder for me than the parts because being such a noob I did not own anything needed to do the work. I hope to document everything properly, and will later add pics.
BTW, after giving the TV a long 30hr rest unplugged, we plugged it back in & low and behold the thing came back on in all its glory. I had read that this might happen, but of course the TV is still not fixed. This happened Thursday night just before the BCS Championship Game and being afraid we have NOT turned off this TV since. Right now I have the Giants vs Eagles Game on. Icaillo, will this hurt my TV??!