It seems that every once in a while, my sound effects don't work in iChat or Finder. When someone sends me a message or I move something in finder or empty my trash, etc. I hear nothing even though my volume is all the way up. But I can still listen to music in iTunes. Anyone know what's up?
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Does the sound come back after a while? There's a core audio glitch in Tiger that stops some sounds from being played. It's easily fixed though. All you have to do is open up Garageband and the close it again. 
ahh welcome to the club! QuigleyBC and I have had this issue for a while now. The only volume that works are music and the volume up/down sounds. All sound effects are gone!
We have theories abound, but we're at a stalemate right now... the only solution appears to be a restart.
Personal Message me if you find a solution! I've just been praying for a software update that fixes this.
We have theories abound, but we're at a stalemate right now... the only solution appears to be a restart.
Personal Message me if you find a solution! I've just been praying for a software update that fixes this.
ero87 said:
That's exactly the same problem I have. A restart fixes it, but that just seems like such a drastic thing to fix something so minor, especially considering it's just gonna stop working again anyways.
Oh, and mad jew, it doesn't come back unless I restart. I tried opening Garageband, and that didn't fix it.
JonD25 said:
That's a shame that it's happening on new intel machines too, it happens on my G5 (sig).
Well actually, that could be a good thing! Maybe it's a software issue, and an update will save us! Our other struggling brother, QuigleyBC, suffers the problem on a PowerMac - so it's not the iMac's fault!
Good luck man.