Can not get sound from my Onkyo HT-R500 when connected to direct

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Look in the manual.

http://www.retrevo.com/support/Onkyo-HT-R500-Receivers-manual/id/365bh147/t/2/

The only vital connection is a simple composite cable or whatever your unidentified TV requires. The TV has a manual, too, somewhere.

I personally would not bother routing any video from external sources through the receiver as no signal will benefit from the extra cables and connections.

Hi...To answer your question about your Sound issue...Try first, check if you have a muting volume control on your setting.. Also some unit, you have to set the date and time before anything... hi hope that gonna work good luck

I have a HT-R520 - First thing stated in the manual is 'Do Not Apply Power to the System Until All the Speakers Are Connected to the Receiver.' This practice avoids any hot connects to the speakers. As with any high-outpiut system connecting spreaker wires to the system while in operation can spike the speakers as well as the amplifier curcuits. Hook up your speakers first and give it a try. Good Luck!

Carl- If you are sending a Line Level Audio signal to your ONKYO RECEVER, from your Sirus RCA cable Output, IE, the CD input, the VCR input, the AUX in, ETC. No Need to have the RECEIVER in the FM mode, you are just needing amplificaton of the sound signal or Sirus signal sound.

insted of running it thru the tv an to the reciver try doing it directly from the DVD player to the reciver just the audio jacks

I found the manual sometime back...try 3Xdouble-u dot eserviceinfo dot com

Several things can cause this: Loud signal passages can momentarily draw high currents at the mains, especially if you have unit plugged into power stripe with other equipment. Or if unit is plugged into isolation transformer, current draw may exceed output of transformer. Too many speakers hooked to output or if one is bad (partially shorted due to overheating)

Consult HT-R500 operations manual for hook up

I haven't researched to actual manuals for your equipment, but I'm guessing that the optical may be disabled when the HDMI is used. You could try using the component video outputs to the TV and then the optical to the Onkyo.