Loud whirring sound


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Loud whirring sound

Postby Mike1999 » Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:40 am

I have a Samsung DLP HLR4667. This thing has worked great for the past 4 years, but last week the bulb finally died. I replaced the bulb and turned the tv back on. The color is great, but after about 10 minutes it started to make a very loud whirring noise. I turned it off and it stopped within a few seconds.

I waited until the evening and turned it on again. I watched for a few minutes and then heard a very low humming. A couple of minutes went by and it became the loud whirring again.

I'm hoping its not the color wheel, but I checked the exhaust fan and nothing is touching it. I was hoping that a wire was getting in the way... Any ideas?? Again the color is perfect, its just this loud noise.

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Re: Loud whirring sound

Postby Eddie » Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:48 pm

The color wheel could be going bad... it hasn't happened yet, but that's what a bad ball bearing sounds like inside a color wheel. You'll start to notice color anomalies eventually and then the TV will stop turning on.
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