Macbook internal speakers not working

nubbyjennubbyjen
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
All of a sudden - my internal speakers are not being recognized in the system preferences and the only way I can get sound is if I plug my speakers into the headphone jack. The speaker jack doesn't work either....this all happened at once. The red light of DOOM is on in the headphone jack unless I plug my speakers into it.



I have a MacBook. It is only about 5 months old.



I am fairly computer literate but, can't figure out this one. Have done some searching online and can't seem to find much of a fix for this.



1) I want my computer to recognize its own internal speakers when I don't have anything plugged in.



2) Why is it that now I can only get sound if I plug the external speakers into the headphone jack which, consequently I have only used AS a headphone jack once several months ago.



Help?



Jen

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 2
    santasanta Posts: 67member
    G'day



    Don't know if this will help or not, but this is what a normal Sound Preferences panel looks like.



    Especially make sure 'Mute' is not ticked.







    Edit.. I've tried to post an image, but how the @#$%^&&* do you do it



    Regards



    Santa
  • Reply 2 of 2
    nvidia2008nvidia2008 Posts: 9,262member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Santa View Post


    Edit.. I've tried to post an image, but how the @#$%^&&* do you do it

    Santa



    You have to link to an external image on flickr.com or photobucket.com or something like that.
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