My Tv is going Haywire. REmote , TV buttons, and menu wont work. TV has picture, but changes channels by itself, the "favorites" box keeps poping up too. Can I reset the TV myself?

Chances are you have a stuck button on the button cluster, what I'd do is remove the connector going to it and use the remote control, with a stuck button the remote won't function properly.

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You will need the remote that comes with the tv if there is no menu button on the tv itself to bring the menu up. Hit the menu button and will want to go to the channel option and change it from digital to analog or even just scan for new channels. But honestly, when working with a satilite box you will usually not use your cable or antenna jack in the back of the tv so you might just need to change the input of the tv to get your channels up.

• You have to set the channel you want as a favorite first and you can do this from the TV. This is why the channels skip as you press up and down. Sometime or another those were someones favorite channels.

1. Press "MENU" on the TV until "SET UP" appears on the screen.
2. Now press ^ or v until "FAVORITE CH" appears in purple.
3. Now press < or > to display the favorite channel FAVORITE CH menu.
4. You will use < or > to got between "SET and "CLEAR."
5. So now go to "SET" and press ^ or v until you get to channel 1.
6. If you want to delete a channel first then select "CLEAR" and then add the channel you wish.

• What your doing when you push the channel up and down on the TV buttons is going through the favorite channels. So make one of the favorite channels channel 1 and program your remote.

• Hope this helps and thank you for using FixYa.

Regards, Tony

Usually if you go into the setup menu, there is an option to allow you to either "scan" for a channel, or "input" a channel. In this case, select "input" and see if the TV will allow you to press the up and down channel buttons and go to a specific channel. If so, when you get to channel 4, press the "add this channel" option (or whatever the menu option says) and you should then be able to go to channel 4 using the buttons on the front without skipping over it.

For the Dynex ZRC-102 remote control channel switching.

1. Press the MENU button and select SETUP.

2. Go down the list and select FAVORITE CHANNEL MODE and switch it to OFF.

The +/- CHANNEL buttons will then switch channels when pressed.

Come on, lets try to solve this. Take the batteries out of the remote so it can't interfere and try changing the channels and volume with the buttons on the tv. If this works then someone has spillled something onto the remote and gummed it all out. You simply need to take the remote apart and clean it out. If the buttons on the tv do th same as the remote did then yes, take it back.

It sounds like a stuck button or switch. What happens when you hit the channel DOWN, does it still keep scrolling down?
Is this with or without the remote?
Have you tried it with the remote and or the TV?

Let me know whether you are changing the channels with the remote or the buttons on the tv and I can try to give you a couple more suggestions.
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when picture is displayed on your tv after pressing menu,press the channel up/down button on the remote or tv. there can also be a button that shifts right to left. this may hilight the the settings you want to change. if the up/down button scrolled you thru the settings, then the right/left buttons should change the settings.
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Check to see if the lower buttons are stuck. You should feel a 'click' when you depress them. If one of them is stuck... you found the problem. Now you need to fix it. All you need to do is pull on the plastic button just a little to give some spring back to it. Or try a needle with a bit of a hook on it. Side it in the right side of the button and pull the button forward. Just be careful not to pull it to far. Just enough to correct to position.
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