Dear friends,

Some of you, such as Gonk and XenonMan have answered some of my doubts recently. I must remind you my system:

Outlaw 990 + 7125. Also a DVD player with 5.1 analog connections.

Yesterday I tried to "lauch the system" for the very first time. I was really excited about it, but unfortunately I did not reach my goal. I feel really frustrated, because, apparently I did follow the steps recommended in the Owner's Manual. Perhaps you guys could help me out, to figure if I am missing something.

I hooked the DVD 5.1 in the 7.1 audio in. I also hooked the DVD in the OPTICAL 1, for alternative audio testing.

So what is the main problem?

For some reason I cannot run the AUTO SETUP (pages 26 and 28). I connect the omnidirectional microphone, go thru all screens to get to the AUTO SETUP, and when I am there it no let the "Start Setup" change to YES in order to run the SETUP. I do not know what to do. I should also inform the following I have tested:

FIRST: I did a CHANNEL CALIBRATION (page 30) and in this case worked fine. I could hear the testing through each speaker connected to the 7125.

SECOND I tried to listed the CD from my DVD device, using the HEADPHONE (page 38). It worked just fine.

PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP ME.

Best regards to all,

Cadu

Have you told the 990 configuration which input is associated with the DVD player? Page 23 describes this process. You will have to specify a video input and an audio input in the configuration menus. Make sure to write these settings down so you can use them in the future. You can specify that the DVD uses the optical input for audio but you will probably get better performance from analog. I have both the analog and the optical hooked up on my 990. For stereo music I think I prefer the optical over the analog. I don't have my 990 with me at the moment so it is a little hazy as to its connections. Start on page 23 after your connections are made and recorded and step through the menus.

If the test tones work, it appears that you've got the 990 connected to the amp properly. Do your sources work? Any chance you still have it switched to using the headphone jack? You have to hold down "MUTE" for a few seconds to switch back, if I remember correctly.

Gonk, as usual, is correct. Page 34 of the manual has the blurb:

Holding down either MUTE button for too long will activate the headphone
listening mode instead of the mute mode. To exit headphone
mode, hold down either MUTE button for several seconds until the small
red speaker icon appears on the right half of the front-panel display.

MY HEEEEERRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Gonk. You got the mistery. I was going to post another thing I could not figure. In the inputs configuration I could´t bypass or change any sourround configuration. As Gonk said, once I pressed for longer time the Mute button, the sound came out. Love it.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH...I had 12 hours of nightmare. Now I can take a nice nap.

Best regards to all,

CADU

PS: Should I update the 990 software using USB connection?????

I would wait and see if I needed the firmware update before I tried it. If you don't need it, why take a chance. It is a pretty straight forward update but many people don't need it from what I can tell.

Glad you're back on track!


The latest firmware version is v3.24, released in May 2008. I cover firmware updates here, including how to install, how to see what version you have, and what the updates changed. I'd definitely want to at least run v3.11 (which you probably already are).