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Trouble
Checks
Sometimes
problems can be easily solved by checking a few basic things.
Check below before you call for help or take your TV/VCR to an Authorized
RCA VCR Servicenter.
Trouble
Here's
what
to try:
No power
• Plug TV/VCR into an operating outlet.
• Check connections.
TV/VCR does not respond
to remote
* Aim remote at TV/VCR's
remote sensor with no objects between them.
• Change batteries.
Poor or no picture for normal TV viewing
No sound
Snow or streaks in picture or no picture during
playback
Will not record or play
Cannot insert or eject tape
Time counter not working
Rewind
does not operate
Timer recording
not made
or wrong program recorded
• Switch to an active
channel.
• Check antenna
connections.
If using supplied
dipole, try adjusting rods.
• Check video adjustments.
See page 8.
• Make sure the line input is not selected.
Select a channel with the GHAN
buttons.
• Press VOL up to increase sound.
• Sound has been muted.
Press MUTE on remote or VOL up.
• Check tape--
it may be worn out or of poor quality. Try another tape.
• Some snow/streaks
are normal during search and pause.
• Press one of the TRAGK buttons on the remote or GH up or down on the
TV/VCR to move the streaks up or down and out of the picture.
• No cassette in TV/VCR.
• Eject and re-insert cassette.
• Broken tape -- try another cassette.
• Safety tab removed from cassette -- TV/VCR will not record.
• TV/VCR is in pause mode.
Press PAUSE on the remote.
• Insert cassette with window
facing up and safety tab facing out.
• To remove cassette, TV/VCR must be connected
to working outlet.
• Turn POWER off and then on before trying to insert or remove cassette.
• Press DISPLAY on remote to display time counter on screen. See page 8.
• The time counter does not advance during unrecorded
portions of tape.
When an unrecorded
segment of tape is encountered,
the time counter will
hold its count until recorded material is detected again.
• A minus (-) will appear in front of the time if you rewind the tape farther
back than a counter reading of 0:00:00.
• Tape already rewound.
• Program entered incorrectly
(wrong
channel or times).
• Cable box was not turned on at time recording was to begin.
• Power interruption.
TIMER indicator
flashes on front of TV/VCR.
• Check to see if time and date are correct -- including
AM/PM.
• Program
exceeded tape's length or tape was not rewound
beforehand.
• No tape in TV/VCR, or cassette ejected if safety tab broken off.
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