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Symptom

Cause

Remedy

 

 

 

Screen noise when playing back • The video source signal has a problem. a video source.

If your video connections use mixed cable types (for example RCA standard video to a component video connection), you may want to try connecting your system using only one cable type (for example, use RCA standard video cable for all connections).

Can’t record video.

• You are trying to record a source connected

• Connect the source component to either the composite

 

to the component video jacks.

video or the S-video jacks (see Connecting your equipment

 

 

on page 15).

 

 

 

 

• The source is copy protected.

• You can't record sources that have been copy protected.

 

 

 

 

• The recorder's video input is hooked up

• Hook up the source and the recorder using the same

 

using a different type of cable to the source

type of video cable (see Making an audio or a video

 

video output.

recording on page 66).

 

 

 

Settings

Symptom

Cause

The Auto Surround Setup

• The ambient noise level in the room is too

continually shows an error.

high, or obstacles are blocking the setup

 

microphone.

Remedy

Keep the noise level in the room as low as possible when using the Auto Surround Setup (see Other problems when using the Auto Surround Setup on page 14 for more on this). If the noise cannot be kept low enough, you will have to set up the surround sound manually (page 54).

After using the Auto Surround

• There was some inaudible low-frequency

• The low-frequency noise could have been caused by an

Setup, the speaker size setting

noise in the room.

air conditioner or motor. Switch off all appliances in the

(LARGE or SMALL) is incorrect.

 

room and rerun the Auto Surround Setup.

 

 

 

The display shows KEY LOCK

• Your Pioneer dealer has enabled the key

• Ask your Pioneer dealer to disable the key lock.

ON when you try to make

lock feature.

 

settings.

 

 

 

 

 

Display

Symptom

Cause

Remedy

 

 

 

The display is dark or off.

• The display is set to dark or off.

Press DIMMER on the remote control repeatedly to select a different brightness.

After making an adjustment the

• The display is set to off.

• Press DIMMER on the remote control repeatedly to

display goes off.

 

select a different brightness.

 

 

 

You can't get DIGITAL to display

• There is a problem with the digital

• Check your digital connections and/or assign the digital

when using the SIGNAL SELECT

connections or the digital input is assigned

inputs correctly (see Assigning the digital inputs on

button.

incorrectly.

page 81).

 

 

 

 

• The multichannel analog inputs are

• Press MULTI CH INPUT again (see Using the

 

selected.

multichannel analog inputs on page 42).

 

 

 

The Dolby/DTS indicator doesn't

• The player is paused.

• Press play.

light when playing Dolby/DTS

 

 

• The player's sound output settings are

• Set the player correctly (consult the manual that came

software.

wrong.

with the player, if necessary).

 

 

 

 

When playing a DVD-Audio disc,

• The audio from these discs is output from

• This is not a malfunction. See also the operating

the DVD player display shows 96

the analog audio jacks of the DVD player only;

instructions that came with your DVD player.

kHz. However, the receiver’s

the receiver does not show the sampling rate

 

display does not.

of the input signal through the analog inputs.

 

 

 

 

During playback of a DTS 96/24

• The receiver’s input signal type is set to

• Set the receiver to AUTO or DIGITAL (see Selecting the

source, the display doesn't show

analog.

input signal type on page 43).

96kHz.

 

 

 

 

 

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