"thatLADude" wrote in message

I bought a Yamaha RX-V595 receiver back in Nov 1998.

Recently I had to move it around a little when I bought a new media
center cabinet for my living room and needed to reinstall all my
components.

Most likely induced problem - wiring errors.

I get all the connections back to what they were and everything works
fine except.... whenever I select the optical digital stream for say,
my DVD player or digital cable box, the receiver shuts off by itself
right as I switch the input source.

When you say "shuts off" do you mean powers itself down?

What happens when you select a digital input with no inputs of any kind
attached to the receiver?


However, whenever I select another type of digital signal process
effect, like "rock concert" or "concert hall" I can use the DVD player
or digital cable box fine.

This would be with an analog input, right?


From this I assume that the Dolby Digital decoder inside the receiver
has gone bad.

In general, the same electronics, the same chips implement both Dolby
Digital and digital effects.

I checked the speaker setting on the back as well, and
it's set properly for my speakers.

But is there a chance that a strand of speaker cabling is grounding out
someplace?

Is there anything else I can do besides look for a repair shop or sell
it on Ebay? I hate to sell it since a lot of the newer digital
receivers don't have phono inputs and I don't like the idea of having
to buy a separate phono amp....

I wouldn't worry about the cost of a low-cost but reasonble phono amp.

Do all of the non-digital inputs work properly?

Have you changed the outlets that the DVD player or digital cable box or
receiver plug into?