Television and Home Theater

I've got a Sony KV-24FV12 that croaked the other day.  When turned on (with remote or front panel), a rapid succession of clicks (7 or 8) can be heard then it will power off after a few seconds.  There's never a picture or sound.  I get blink codes from the standby light after it powers off.  Usually it blinks four times first, then repeats five blinks indefinitely.  I presume this means I have code 4 and 5 in succession.  Sometimes I'll just get two blinks over and over.  Lucky me, it seems like I get all three possible error codes from this thi

I bought an Orion Pal/Secam TV in France and brought it home to England. It worked with no problems in France on Secam. In England I have changed over to Pal and have found all the terrestrial channels ok but there is a problem with the sound. All the time there is a shhh-ing noise as if it is off-channel but fine tuning has no effect. This makes it unwatchable. Please can anyone help? Maggie

Hi all,

 Thanks to zapdbf for pointing me in the right direction to get rid of red retrace lines!  I was able to get rid of the red horizontal lines by adjusting the R, G, B screen trimpots.