Older Sony CRT Issue, OSD problem

My mum has one of my hand-me-down TV's that I gave her a few years back, a Sony 59cm KV-XA25M31 and somethings gone funny with it in the last few days, I hope someone here knows what could be wrong and what to fix.

Whenever I try to adjust the volume, enter the menu or anything that involves the OSD, all it shows is the shadow of the text, the solid green lettering is transparent. In fact the menu is even fainter and you can't adjust anything because you can't see what you're doing!

Another thing I noticed also is that when I cycle through the AV inputs, the blue screen is gone (black screen only) and I can't see which input I was on as the text in the top left corner of the screen is not visible.

I hope it's fixable - It's a good TV and she's still quite happy with it, other than the OSD problem, the picture, sound and everything else is perfect.

Gee, I must really have a hard fault to fix.

Nearly 200 viewers and no reply.

Thanks for a reply ADU, no external devices have been connected to the TV in ages. Thanks for the suggestion on the cables, maybe one of the internal connections isn't making proper contact. I didn't think of that.

I might pull the back off it on the weekend and re-seat all the cables and see how that goes.

Yeah it is the Australian model.

Thanks for the tip on the IC, I don't suppose you know the number of the IC in question? Might be worth replacing if it's not too expensive.

btw, anyone know where I can download a free service manual for this TV?

What do you mean exactly?

TV is still perfect, it's only the 'overlay' if you can call it that of the OSD that's almost invisible. Also the blue back screen doesn't show, it's only black now.

I can't get the TV to display the colour bars, it doesn't have the option.


Thanks for the link to the manual.

Here are a couple of photos showing what I'm seeing, only really works on a light background otherwise you don't see anything!







The third picture is what's supposed to be the menu. As it is, it's next to impossible to navigate. Very weird.