PowerBook speakers

[katie ta achoo]

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 😀

 

[xparaparafreakx]

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]

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.
😕
What's goin' on with my baby PB?
*hug*

 

[generik]

Could it be a loose connection somewhere inside?

Definitely a good idea to send it for some "medicals" 🙂

 

[katie ta achoo]

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?

😕

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]

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