Panasonic Blinking Power light of Death

Me again, with a new problem - Panasonic Blinking Power light of Death.All Panasonic Plasmas feature a protection circuit that will force the TV to shut down in case of a problem. _The malfunctioning part can be identified by the numbers of blinks of the power light.Mine blinks 10 times, which means:10 blinks Sub 5V SOS / Sub 3.3v SOS A-Board / SC-Board / SS-Board / P Main-Board / P Sub-Board Tuner Power SOS

 

Does your Panasonic TV still do this when you disconnect your Sony NSZ-GS7 from the TV?

 

No, I have to kill the AC power, hold the Panny's power button for 10s, release, it turns on, restore AC to the GS7, Bob's yer uncle.

Here's someone who had a similar problem with his HTPC:

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He solved it by using a different HDMI input on his Panny. Maybe I'll try that...

 

The problem was the HDMI cable that Bell TV (Espressvu) had supplied back in 2008 when I first got the Panasonic Viera. For some reason the satellite guy used a HDMI/DVI/DVI/HDMI combination cable. It worked fine with my Satellite box and later with my cable box. But with the GTV box, there was one pin with the wrong voltage that caused the Panny to declare a catastrophic failure. I just replaced the combo cable with a straight cable, and no more problem!