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katie ta achoo

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So, I have a 15" Alu PowerBook running 10.4.3.

The speakers keep spontaneously not working. It's happened 4 times in the last 18 hours.

the only thing I've been doing on my PB differently is now I'm running F@H in terminal overnight, every night (and every time I leave my PB for more than a few minutes).

A restart always fixes it... I've repaired permissions, fiddled with system preferences, and all that good stuff.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix it?

Pretty please help?
Thanks :D
 

xparaparafreakx

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Jul 29, 2005
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Do you use headphones?

According to my Lil Bro since he has a AlBook, the PB thinks the headphones are connected. Connect a headphone and pull it out and your souns will come back to your speakers. He said it has nothing to do with the OS.
 

katie ta achoo

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xparaparafreakx said:
Do you use headphones?

According to my Lil Bro since he has a AlBook, the PB thinks the headphones are connected. Connect a headphone and pull it out and your souns will come back to your speakers. He said it has nothing to do with the OS.

Nope... didn't work.
:confused:
What's goin' on with my baby PB?
*hug*
 

katie ta achoo

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generik said:
Could it be a loose connection somewhere inside?

Definitely a good idea to send it for some "medicals" :)

But would that be fixed with a restart?

:confused:

edit:
I know it wouldn't be fixed with a restart if it were a hardware thing. I was being facetious.

I also love that word.
 

jung_offender

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I had a situation on my rev A 12" PB where the balance would shift on its own every day. I didn't realise that was the cause so I kept rebooting, which resolved the problem. I was using these wee dodgey self-powered speakers at the time via the headphone jack so I don't know if that's the same sort of situation or not.

Afraid I have no solutions as once I figured it out and reset it through system preferences, the problem went away.

Strange
 
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