Internal speakers disabled (10.6)

[vukasin]

Hi!

After I pulled out the jack for my speakers the volume icon was greyed out http://grab.by/4NXS and soon I realized that internal speakers as such have been disabled from the system http://grab.by/4NXq

When I restart the startup chime is played as usual.

Is it a hardware or software thing? Any remedies?

Thx!

 

[Jolly Jimmy]

Sounds like the output is stuck on optical. Is there a red light in the headphone socket by any chance?

 

[vukasin]

Yes! What suprises me now is that I've seen this as a possible issue while googling this but didn't see the red light, perhaps I didn't look hard enough...

What would be the best course of action? Is this something I should try to do alone, I've seen toothpicks mentioned elsewhere?

 

[vukasin]

Problem solved after following this thread - https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/232084/

Thx a bunch Jolly for making me look hard for that light!