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Originally Posted by arrowheadnation
I bought the top of the line 83" LG OLED at best buy for $3000 about 2 years ago for my mancave. It was the best one they had in the store (I already had a Samsung QLED in my family room). About 6 months ago I was working from home in my basement and had the TV on in the background. For the first time ever living in this house, the basement family room breaker flipped (and it's never flipped since). I flipped it back and everything but the TV came back on. Sure enough, the "warranty" ran out ONE WEEK prior to this happening. I had a geek squad guy come by to fix it and he was cool. He told me, "look man, it's either the power board or the full on logic board. If it's the power board, it will be about $300 to fix. If it's the latter, $1500." He then told me if it were him, he'd try swapping out the powerboard first by following a youtube video. I bought a board off of ebay for $90. Had a buddy help me tip the TV over. We swapped it out in about 30 min and it worked like a charm. That being said, I'm still done with LG. I had always been a samsung guy but figured I'd try the LG because all of my techy buddies recommended it. All that being said, those cheap TV's they sell on black friday are specially built with cheap/inferior parts specifically for Black Friday. They get the job done. I bought a 55 inch one 5 years ago and have been using it as my computer monitor ever since.
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I was going to say - given what happened I would have bet money it was the power board. Depending on the size of the TV and the power draw, they can be pretty cheap to replace. Just replaced on on TCL 75" for $169.