phantoms in my sony strvx receiver while i have gotten years out of this digital receiver it has been acting verry strange of late i hope that the following symptoms may help someone diagnose the error i know that whatever lithium memory backup it had has long died thus if i unplug it it won t remember the presets it has given up listening to the remote i tried changing the remote s batteries when i try a remote function the receiver registers that it received it a green remote light flashes but the right function doesn t happen if any function at all also strange when i hit the mute button for example the display panel goes black yikes i ve never seen that before before all the strangeness started the system turned itself off and on again by itself sometimes it won t play a radio station so i have to kinda twist it yes kinda flex the motherboard chasis for it to get the radio tuning back the aux in function always works however it is inconvenient but not inconvenient enough to pay an expensive repair fee while i m not a hardware guy i wonder if something as simple as a surge supressor will be a quick fix the strange thing is that these symptoms come and go someone told me this unit series has a bad voltage amp chip anyway arghh cjk
