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Anonymous Posted on Jul 03, 2009

I unplugged the power cord by accident. Now it doesn't work.

I unplugged my receiver from the power by accident and after I plugged it back, it doesn't want to work. The fan is running and I can see the red light coming from the optical audio input. On the front of the receiver the power light is off. Now, this receiver has no power button. Only a stand by button. Somebody knows how to make it work again?

  • Anonymous Jul 04, 2009

    Ok. I posted this problem. And I got it working again. This is what I did: I unplugged it from the power for 2 hours to demagnetized the unit. Then I plugged it back to the power and pressed the stand by button for 10 seconds. Nothing happened yet. But, after like 30 minutes the power light was back on. I turned the TV on and I had signal and everything else. All my saved programs were there.

    It's just reacquiring all the viewable channels little by little but after one hour I got like 80% of them.

    I'm not sure if this procedure is the one for this problem, but it worked for me. So, if you have this problem, give it a try. What's there to lose??

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I had to replace the power supply in mine when it did that.

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