[P1] Microphone problem

[Brian]

Thanks

That helps

BG
On Jun 9, 2004, at 6:23 AM, Charles Pearce wrote:

>
> On Jun 8, 2004, at 6:06 PM, Brian wrote:
>
>> All of the sudden I no longer have a functioning built in microphone 
>> on my iBook 500 dual USB.
>>
>> The preferences say no input device. Anybody else seen this happen?
>>
>> I am afraid that it some how lost the physical connection I assume 
>> the lead(s) pass through the hinge to get from microphone (next to 
>> LCD) to MOBO.
>>
>> Any suggestions??
>
> You probably just installed the latest update from Apple (10.3.4). 
> This is a known issue with that update, however, because I wasn't 
> affected by it (it appears to affect only iBook 500s), I paid scant 
> attention to the discussions that have been appearing the last couple 
> of days on the MacFixit emails that I get as part of belonging to this 
> list. Do you not get these? At any rate, I noticed that there may be a 
> fix to this issue having something to do with trashing preferences, 
> but as I said, I didn't pay much attention to it, so I may have that 
> all wrong. Go to MacFixit archives and/or the Apple Knowledge Base, 
> and search for it. It isn't a hardware problem.
>
> Charles Pearce (charlesp at ksu.edu)

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