[X4U] Fwd: MacBook Pro Audio Crisis - please help!

[Steve Talkowski]

Here's his response:

> If the function key is the one that says "fn", then no, that  
> doesn't help.
>
> However, I just noticed something that maybe moots this whole  
> thing.  When I plug in my headphones, the volume buttons do work!   
> And therefore I assume that if I plugged in speakers, they would  
> work, too.  So maybe there's something wrong with my built-in  
> speaker (for example, I can't hear anything when I play a song in  
> iTunes--unless I plug in the headphones), and that problem is  
> somehow being reflected in the computer's response to my pressing  
> the volume-control keys.
>
> Anyway, now that I at least have sound when I plug in headphones,  
> this is much less urgent, but if it's not too burdensome to pass  
> this new info along to your OS X list, I'd love to hear their  
> thoughts.  At this point, though, it looks like my built-in speaker  
> is busted.

On Apr 11, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:

> At 15:34 -0500 4/11/07, Linda wrote:
>> On 4/11/07 3:22 PM, Steve Talkowski wrote:
>>
>>> A fellow Mac user on a non-computer related mailing list is having
>>> the following problem.  Nothing that I've ever encountered before on
>>> my MacBook Pro.  Any ideas I can send his way?
>>
>> Do they work if he holds down the Function key and hits the  
>> buttons? If so,
>> that's a preference in the System Prefs, must have gotten changed  
>> somehow...
>
> Some other quick questions. . .
>
> Does the machine chime during a cold startup?
>
> Is anything plugged into the headphone jack?
>
> Has anything been plugged in there that might have mucked with the  
> little switch in the jack?
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