Orange Furball
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Randomly I found this red LED shining out of my MacBook... its coming straight from the headphone jack. I thought it was a laser but its just an LED I guess... what's causing this?
Strange red LED coming from my headphone jack?
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simsaladimbamba
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The optical audio out has been enabled.
Remove the 3.5 mm plug you use to connect the speakers to the Mac from the Mac's audio out port, and see, if there is a red light. If so, repeatedly plug and unplug the 3.5 mm connector until the light goes away, as the red light is the indicator of the digital, optical audio out being enabled, and sometimes it just gets stuck.
Remove the 3.5 mm plug you use to connect the speakers to the Mac from the Mac's audio out port, and see, if there is a red light. If so, repeatedly plug and unplug the 3.5 mm connector until the light goes away, as the red light is the indicator of the digital, optical audio out being enabled, and sometimes it just gets stuck.
Orange Furball
macrumors 65816
Ahh ok. Maybe it was caused by windows installing or something. Thanks!
AppleFanatic10
macrumors 68030
That could also be the case. There's an update to the audio called cirrus or something. Look up bootcamp windows 7 red light on audio jack and it'll come up somewhere 