When I turn on my onkyo receiver say protect
If protect is coming up on the display, it means the system is detecting a short somewhere on one of the speakers and so is turning the amp off to avoid damage.
Check all the connections at the back of the amp to ensure they are not shorting, and at the back of each speaker, if nothing is found there, check each wire for damage (like squashed or rodent damage).
SOURCE: Onkyo tx-sr800 PROTECT mode
Hold video1 and press speakers A button, it will say "clear" If the message protect appears again, then its service time.
SOURCE: Every time I turn on my Onkyo receiver it goes in
Please check your speaker cables. Make sure that all of them are seated properly, none is touching each other or to the body of receiver.
Are you using banana plugs for connecting speaker or just directly. Some times even a little tiny frayed speaker cable touching the receiver could trigger the protect mode. Be careful, since protect mode is sometimes not fast enough to activate and it could blow a few trasistors in the power output circuit.
Please take out all the speaker cables, unplug your receiver from the mains and try to restart without any cables plugged. If it powers on then you are lucky.
If not and the receiver still goes into protect mode or wont turn on then it possible that there are bad connections on the main board or have some blown transistors. How old is your system? if its still under warranty then you should contact Onkyo immidiately.
Let me know if I can be of any further help. Please do rate this solution and thanks for using FixYa!
SOURCE: Onkyo tx-8211 protect
It's unlikely you can. Most hifi shops can though.
If you're still reading, open it up, and look for a switch of some kind. It may not even exist, but I'd say it's the best thing to look for when doing something considered mediocre at hifi shops (if it was difficult and interesting, they wouldn't find it so boring). Maybe it's a button. It will probably be labelled protection or reset or something similar.
So, look for a switch, or something similar. I have no idea where it would be because I've never dismantled such a thing. The other option (if you haven't done so already) is unplug it from the power and leave it for a while (overnight may be the best bet). This may fix it for you, and it's easier than undoing all those screws.
SOURCE: How do I reset from the amp protect mode Onkyo receiver TX-SR600?
How do I reset my amp / receiver from protect mode ?
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