Is My Onkyo Receiver's Tuner Dead or Just Playing Posum?


Tried using the AM/FM tuner in my Onkyo TX-SR876 home theater receiver but getting no sound. I called Onkyo tech support but the best they could tell me is: "Try a different antenna". This tuner has worked in the past (Las Vegas) but I had a clean line-of-sight to Black Mountain broadcasting antennas. I know this is a shot in the dark but maybe an Onkyo wizard will read and suggest a fix? Can't believe the tuner would just konk out...
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Showing 1 response by remm

I had same problem and solved it.

I have an Onkyo TX-RZ3100 AV receiver and haven't tried FM tuner for a couple of months. So today I went to listen to the radio and noting sounds, no static, no low volume, no nothing. Couldn't tune any station, no FM nor AM.

I tried everything using remote control, and tried every option in config, but nothing worked.

Then I went directly to the receiver, opened the front flap and pressed the button TUNING MODE that is right above AUX INPUT HDMI and surprisingly static started to sound and I was able to do everything as expected with my onkyo remote control, even sending tuner sound to Zone 2.

Hope this will help.