Assisting a local tech. Powers on, picture becomes bright white with retrace and shuts down with 7 blinks. Sony wasn't a help. Appears like a typical excess CRT drive with ABL shut down. The +200V source to CRT is there, and gets to the three CRT video outputs OK. I had him unsolder one heater pin on CRT to allow the tube to not draw current, with the CRT board still connected to see if now it would stay up and running. it still shuts down.With a different blink. Sony said some sets would get bright red and shut down due to solder connections at conn CN2805,CN2803 on the "BY" board. No help here,but tech still suspects the BY board. Any ASCs out there? Phil Bader -- Philip Bader Jan Phyl TV Inc. (estab. 1976) 3420 Recker Hwy. Winter Haven, Fl. 33880 Fax (863) 299-8821 email: tjanphyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.3.0 - Release Date: 2/21/2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/