CNET Forums: Message List - Macbook 2,1 Built In Sound Stopped Working after Snow Leopar

try this

14 Aug 2012 21:25:03 PDT

hello... if you are still using windows and still having sound or driver issue try to download utorrent ot bittorrent or ...

try this

14 Aug 2012 21:18:04 PDT

hello... if you are still using windows and still having sound or driver issue try to download utorrent ot bittorrent or ...

try this out

14 Aug 2012 21:10:19 PDT

im using macbook 2.1 too and convert it to windows and deleted mac os leopard. you can try installing utorrent and downl ...

strange

17 Jun 2012 03:11:26 PDT

very strange, I never had any trouble with my apple air ...

READ THIS UNTIL IT HURTS!

16 Jun 2012 13:31:44 PDT

Nod! ...

You can't

16 Jun 2012 06:49:23 PDT

You can't. As you've discovered, a pin inside the jack gets bent out of shape and sends the signal to the OS to disable ...

Mac Pro speaker not working

15 Jun 2012 21:28:23 PDT

When my built in spear option wasn't coming up I put downward pressure on the headphone jack as suggested and the built ...

No volume

03 Mar 2012 14:27:34 PST

Hi. Searched for an answer my macbook external volume cutting out after listening to a movie with HP. So i saw the pos ...

Macbook Built In Sound Stopped Working after Snow Leopard

17 Feb 2012 18:31:17 PST

Use bobby pin or paper clip make a small right angle at one end insert it all the way in to the headphone port with the ...

I offer suggestions,

21 Jan 2012 17:02:21 PST

it is up to you whether you accept them or not.

Right now, everything points to the changing of the HD, which is ...

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21 Jan 2012 07:09:09 PST

There is no other way to get the sound back besides that? ...

No sound

21 Jan 2012 07:02:00 PST

Any chance you could put the original drive back in that machine?

OR

are you willing to format and install ...

No/Yes

20 Jan 2012 19:26:53 PST

no

it gives me a O / (merge those two together) like a crossed out circle. Chime was made when i booted it from ...

OK, and is

20 Jan 2012 07:34:51 PST

there any sound once booted from the disc?

Volume up/down keys, do they beep?

P ...

Response to MrMacFixIT

19 Jan 2012 18:47:24 PST

Yes there was a chime. ...

Is there any sound when you

19 Jan 2012 14:59:40 PST

boot from the OS X installation disc?
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Macbook Sound Fail

19 Jan 2012 14:41:59 PST

No input or output devices detected ...

you seem to have missed out the Sound Preference panel

18 Jan 2012 15:47:19 PST

Should be the first place to go

What do you see there?

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No sound (startup chime works) but nothing else

18 Jan 2012 14:21:51 PST

Long story short, I had switched out a hard drive on an older computer with the same system after a nice big computer fa ...

Instead of hijacking an old thread

12 Nov 2011 06:12:06 PST

Instead of hijacking an old thread, you should create a new one in the future.

Anyway, considering you've gone an ...

Heeeeeeellllppppppppppp!!!

12 Nov 2011 05:08:37 PST

I did the safety pin method and managed to turn off the red optical light but my volume still appears with the prohibit ...

Sound problems with Snow Leopard

29 Jul 2011 15:31:27 PDT

I upgraded to 10.6.8 the other day and all sound disappeared. System preferences had been changed from headphone/speaker ...

work

09 Mar 2011 14:18:54 PST

hello

same problem as above in mac book pro tried it a few times, then used headphones jack inserted with only do ...

briliant !

05 Jan 2011 07:12:58 PST

this advice worked perfect !!! did exactly what you wrote ,and the red light disapear , and the sound came back to the s ...

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10 Jun 2010 23:08:03 PDT

the red light is the optical output of that port ...

Macbook(Intel) OS X 10.5.8 sound stopped working

31 May 2010 17:43:57 PDT

i can vouch for this, have spent hours trying everything from a software point of view i can think of, never occured to ...

Macbook(Intel) OS X 10.5.8 sound stopped working

10 Apr 2010 07:32:49 PDT

The same problem occurred on my MacBook(intel) and OS 10.6.3. I tried the manipulations as described and found that this ...

Macbook(Intel) OS X 10.5.8 sound stopped working

10 Apr 2010 06:43:28 PDT

Macbook(Intel) OS X 10.5.8 sound stopped working, sound options lists only Built-in Output and under the settings portio ...

Macbook loss of sound

15 Feb 2010 18:21:08 PST

Great! That worked for me a treat. I had the same thing of having sound only through the headpones but not the speaker ...

Macbook loss of sound

01 Jan 2010 03:58:26 PST

I had exactly the same problem and the thought of having to do all those re-installs scared me, quite frankly, so I went ...

Re: Calm down and take a deep breath...

22 Sep 2009 17:44:05 PDT

I think I found a solution. After resetting the System Management Controller by holding left-shift+control+option my sou ...

Calm down and take a deep breath...

22 Sep 2009 17:22:33 PDT

I've done a lot of research on this particular problem and I think they fall into two groups, software and hardware.

aghh!

22 Sep 2009 16:47:45 PDT

I don't think this is a driver issue, but I am experiencing the exact same issue as everyone else. I have been able to g ...

Built in sound stopped working

16 Sep 2009 11:56:56 PDT

I've had the same problem with my MacBook Pro 17" after upgrading to Leopard and it continues with Snow Leopard. Re ...

No cure but,

13 Sep 2009 08:15:38 PDT

the red light is the optical output of that port

P ...

Same problem-- built in speakers don't work!

12 Sep 2009 16:06:28 PDT

Exact same problem, except that I can't get the built-in speakers to work by wiggling the headphone cord. I can listen ...

Oops

10 Sep 2009 23:06:17 PDT

Turns out it was only coincidence in my case, that it was right after I upgraded. After posting that, I noticed a red li ...

MacBook1,1 - Same problem

10 Sep 2009 22:43:49 PDT

I have a MacBook1,1 - with the exact same problem. Works fine with headphones, I get startup chime, but shortly after fi ...

Macbook 2,1 Built In Sound Stopped Working after Snow Leopar

04 Sep 2009 14:02:02 PDT

I have a macbook 2,1, the white one. Has anyone else had their regular built in sound just stop working right after upg ...