https://community.sony.es/t5/other-tvs/kd-55xe7096-tcon-failure-or-something-else/m-p/3982648#M58245 <P>Hi,</P><P>My trusted Sony started a few days ago having a broad black vertical bar across the screen.&nbsp; There are a bunch of colourful lines inside the bar, and also some of those horizontally at the bottom of the screen.&nbsp; There is a very good video in Youtube giving advice of how to clean the contacts, including the TCON ribbons.&nbsp; However, these actions seemed not to help in my case.&nbsp; Might anyone in this community have a good guess, if replacing the TCON card might help?&nbsp; I.e. might the problems be caused by the TCON board having been partly broken.&nbsp; The screen is functioning otherwise normally, and the picture is ok, besides the black bar with its lines.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="screen with black bar.JPG" style="width: 1200px;"><img src="https://community.sony.es/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/502563i350793C3F5642258/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="screen with black bar.JPG" alt="screen with black bar.JPG" /></span></P> Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:00:24 GMT zzeeker 2025-09-20T13:00:24Z https://community.sony.es/t5/other-tvs/kd-55xe7096-tcon-failure-or-something-else/m-p/3982648#M58245 <P>Hi,</P><P>My trusted Sony started a few days ago having a broad black vertical bar across the screen.&nbsp; There are a bunch of colourful lines inside the bar, and also some of those horizontally at the bottom of the screen.&nbsp; There is a very good video in Youtube giving advice of how to clean the contacts, including the TCON ribbons.&nbsp; However, these actions seemed not to help in my case.&nbsp; Might anyone in this community have a good guess, if replacing the TCON card might help?&nbsp; I.e. might the problems be caused by the TCON board having been partly broken.&nbsp; The screen is functioning otherwise normally, and the picture is ok, besides the black bar with its lines.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="screen with black bar.JPG" style="width: 1200px;"><img src="https://community.sony.es/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/502563i350793C3F5642258/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="screen with black bar.JPG" alt="screen with black bar.JPG" /></span></P> Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:00:24 GMT https://community.sony.es/t5/other-tvs/kd-55xe7096-tcon-failure-or-something-else/m-p/3982648#M58245 zzeeker 2025-09-20T13:00:24Z