Speakers.

Katniss everMean

Hey macphags (I mean this in a loving and endearing way),

I have s shiny two/three month old mac book, and the speakers seem to have broken. I was just wondering if anyone had experienced this and if so is it a simple patch or a go back to the factory job.

I have used headphones with my mac a lot, but the last time I did the speakers refused to work again jealous beast. Its nothing to do with my selected device, its on internal speaker, yet the speaker port/whole (place head phone goes into lol), its light is on. I have tried doing cmd p+r on restart to reset my preferences but notha.

At the moment there actually working but only after I hit it >.> , see hitting things does make them better, but I know if I put headphones in again they will break.

kat

babypink

yeah, i believe this is a known issue with the headphone port.

If it's any consolation, the headphone port on my powerbook can be tempermental at times too.

Katniss everMean

very gay. Thanks

babypink

get in touch with apple.....it is a known problem.

the microswitch in the headphone jack has likely failed.....they should sort it for you.... new macbook or at least a replaced motherboard.....this is my preferred recommendation.....give it a whirl first

or from the apple support forum

"
Hi all!

I write this most enthusiastically ... the toothpick did the trick. I stuck it in gently ... pointing the sharp tip end at about 6 o'clock ... and you will hear a very mechanical "click". The red light went off, and System Prefs reflected this immediately.

I can vouch this is NOT a software problem. It's all about a catch getting stuck.

Crappy Jack: stars and salutes to you. You just saved me a 3 hour journey to the closest service shop, and days of lost productivity.

This discussion group is far more helpful than Apple techs ever are.

Awesome! "

440Hz

I had a big long thread about this last year, where I had this problem and found a solution. Have a search for 'headphone' and 'jack' in the forum, you shoud find it.

Katniss everMean

Thanks