Cheers people fitted all the caps and left C878 alone and the tv is now working fine
Dont know if someone can answer this...something I did notice before I did the repair, when I did get the TV to fire up the remote had a mind of its own...press the volume button and the source would change press P+ and it would operate another button...after doing the repair this fault seems to have cured itself.
Is/could this be related????