Sounds like a transistor is stuck on.
Rob
It looks like transistor TR15 turns on the stereo lamp. It is located on board F2590. It feeds pin 20 and one side of the lamp. The other side of the lamp goes to the lamp board.
So it could be the transistor or the chip that feeds it. You should be able to check it with a meter.
See schematic here.
Rob
MY 990 was mod'ed for the lamps to stay on any source.Maybe thats it? Just say'n
Whoops, that's not my finger.
I just pulled the schematic from the AK database.
If you meter from the lamp board where the stereo lamp is suppose to be wired (+), to pin 20 (-), when a stereo signal is received you should see voltage.
If it's there all the time, something is wrong.
Rob