[X4U] low sound volume

[Jan Melichar]

Thanks for your suggestion which jolted my ossifying memory and  
reminded me that some tampering (actually just opening and closing  
the MIDI utility) sorted our a sound problem with FC several macs  
ago. Alas this time it has no effect.

Jan

On 6 Aug 2006, at 01:37, Mark Paul wrote:

> When my speakers lose volume, I've had luck with the Audio MIDI  
> Setup app in Applications/Utilities.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Aug 5, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Linda wrote:
>
>> On 8/5/06 12:21 PM, Jan Melichar wrote:
>>
>>> Returning to my mac (G5, 10.4.6) after being away for ten days I  
>>> find
>>> the the sound level is very low despite being set to maximum (in
>>> system preferences as well as in application iTunes, EyeTV, Real
>>> Player, Bais etc.
>>>
>>> Sound output is via JBL speakers which I have unplugged and
>>> replugged. The sound through the mac's own puny speaker is also
>>> unusually low.
>>> Any suggestions how to bring things back to audible levels would be
>>> very welcome.
>>
>> Jan,
>>
>> Reboot in Safe mode -- hold down the Shift key when you reboot.  
>> The chime
>> should be horrendously loud (at least, mine is). It takes a while,  
>> because
>> the computer does some sort of disk check (equivalent to fsck - 
>> y?). After
>> the machine is booted, is your sound normal? Certain things are  
>> disabled
>> during a Safe boot; if your sound is normal, you know you've got a  
>> software
>> problem. The disk check is sometimes enough to fix problems on its  
>> own, too;
>> you might find subsequent boots are of "normal" volume.
>>
>> If none of that works, then let me ask you where you went for ten  
>> days...
>> any chance you suffered some hearing loss during your absence? ;-)  
>> You know,
>> maybe you were on tour drumming for Metallica, or something... ;-)  
>> J/K.
>>
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