Troubleshooting, Symptoms Causes Remedies

TROUBLESHOOTING

What appears to be trouble is not always serious. Check the following points before calling a service center.

Symptoms

Causes

Remedies

• A cassette tape cannot be

You have tried to insert a

Insert the cassette with the

inserted.

cassette in the wrong way.

exposed tape facing right.

• Cassette tapes become hot.

This is not a malfunction.

• Tape sound is at very low

The tape head is dirty.

Clean it with a head cleaning

level and sound quality is

tape.

degraded.

• Sound is sometimes

Connections are not good.

Check the cords and

interrupted.

connections.

• Sound cannot be heard from

The volume control is turned

Adjust it to the optimum level.

the speakers.

to the minimum level.

Connections are incorrect.

Check the cords and

connections.

• SSM (Strong-station

Signals are too weak.

Store stations manually.

Sequential Memory)

automatic preset does not

work.

• Static noise while listening

The antenna is not connected

Connect the antenna firmly.

to the radio.

firmly.

• “NO CD” or “NO DISC”

No CD is in the magazine.

Insert CDs into the magazine.

appears on the display.

CDs are inserted incorrectly.

Insert them correctly.

• “RESET 8” appears on the

This unit is not connected to a

Connect this unit and the CD

display.

CD changer correctly.

changer correctly and press

the reset button of the CD

changer.

• “RESET 1-RESET 7”

Press the reset button of the

appears on the display.

CD changer.

• The unit does not work at

The built-in microcomputer

Press

ATT and SEL at

all.

may function incorrectly due to

the same time for more than 2

noise, etc.

seconds to reset the unit. (The

clock setting and preset

stations stored in memory are

erased.)