Originally Posted by
goodlife 
As I promised, I am posting how I fixed mine.
First of all, I followed instruction esoh has posted on 11/28/06 (thread# 61) to order a jig. Here is how.
1. Called 800-211-PANA (7262)
2. At the voice prompts said the following:
"Customer Support" then "Parts and Accessories" then "Plasma TV" then "Buy Direct"
3. Got support person on the phone, asked for TNPEEPJIGS (updated version of TXNPX25JIGS)
4. Paid $50 plus s/h, total of $63.74 by credit card.
5. Ordered on 12/27/07, received on 1/4/08
To fix my TV, I followed instruction crabbon has posted on 3/8/06 (thread# 38) and doug8867 posted on 6/27/07 (thread# 95) also went to BruZZi's website to go into service mode.
Trick was to go into the service mode, and after you get in there, it is really easy. Here is what I did.
1. Unplug everything from TV except for power cord.
2. Plug a coaxial cable from cable box to "Antenna-A Cable In" behind TV (my cable box was hooked up to HDMI input and it does not work when fixing this problem. Only things need to be hooked up to your TV is the power cable and coaxial cable to antenna-A)
3. Remove ONE screw in the back of the plasma in the TOP LEFT to access connector PA23.
4. Plug in the TNPEEPJIGS, and turn on the unit.
5. Using the remote control, press the {MENU} button, {Set Up} then {Program CH}
6. From "{nput Set Up}, change {Antenna A} to {Cable-Only} and "OK." TV will ask you to search all channels. Press "OK" and let it do the work. It may take for 5 minutes to scan all the channels, but without going through this step, I could not get into service mode.
7. After all the channels are scanned, go back to {menu} and select {Timer} and set sleep timer to 30 min. Still don't know why we have to do this but I guess this is the trick to get into the service mode that Panasonic set up, so us consumers have no way to get in.
8. Press {Exit} twice to exit menus.
9. Tune to channel 124. No picture comes on the screen but it is okay. Mine said no channel available after a few seconds. Why 124? I don't know, but I guess this is another trick to get into service mode.
10. Press and hold {VOL -} button ON THE PLASMA TV. "CHK" appears in on top-left corner followed by 5 letter/numbers (which are the cumulative hours in hex numbers)
11. Press the {POWER} button ON THE REMOTE. Screen will change and serviceman adjustments modes comes on as below.
MODE...
MTS...
CLOCK...
VIDEO...
HDEF...
VDEF...
DAF...
OTHER...
EEP (this is what you use to fix the 1/3 screen problem)
12. Press {CH+} {CH -} ON THE REMOTE to select EEP.
13. Select {AREA} and press "OK"
14. Press > cursor button twice to select "15 9C FIX", then press "OK"
15. Select EEP "EX > IN" and letters on the screen highlighted purple flashes to yellow then the data transfer starts.
16. About 30 seconds later, TV will shut itself off and comes back on.
17. Turn your TV off and remove the TNPEEPJIGS, screw back the service panel cover.
18. Turn you TV on and enjoy your TV! I also had a problem with component inputs (using these terminals, pictures were terrible...black & white with a lot of snow on top of 1/3 screen problem) but this was also fixed at the same time. Now I enjoy digital picture with my DVD.
If it wasn't this forum, I had no way to fix my TV. I just want to give all of you a big thank you
and I also made me decide to take time to post this to help others who still have the same problem. Hope this helps
