No sound after Mac OS X 10.5.6 update?

Posted December 18, 2008 * Comments(12)

After installing the latest Mac OS X 10.5.6 update my Mac refused to play any sound. It took me quite some time to find the problem: for some reason the update set the sound output to “Headphones” instead of “Internal speakers”. Once I set it back to “Internal speakers” the sound was back.

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12 Comments so far

  1. Buzzbaum on January 3rd, 2009

    Thanks for this, I wish I had googled it earlier before calling Apple support. Their 2nd tier support told me to re-install the operating system, which I stupidly did. Still nothing. I found your trick and in 15 seconds was back in business. The only problem is that I cannot get the 10.5.6 update to run, it gets hung every time. Back to Apple support. Thanks again, good tip.

  2. John on January 9th, 2009

    Thanks for the advice. It worked a treat. Cheers

  3. Wilma on February 5th, 2009

    Thanks for posting this. It took me only 2 mins. between “What now!?” and finding your solution.

  4. Perkabalo on March 19th, 2009

    Thanks working now! :D

  5. Philothea on March 23rd, 2009

    I have had my Mac os 10.5.6 running for a few months and the sound just disappeared! As a result of reading your post, I plugged in some earphones, the sound came on in them, then when I removed them, the sound was back in the internal speakers.

    Go figure!!!

    HTH :)

  6. Dogh on April 10th, 2009

    For 2 years I lived without sound on my older Mac G5 1.8. Four
    days ago I bought a brand new iMac 2.93 GHz because I wanted something with ’sound’, and that 4 GB memory. – When I initially had the problem on my older Mac, I tried every link I could think of to resolve the problem. I asked people I knew who had Macs . . techies, etc. I consulted Apple Support . . checked the Mac forums. I really thought I had blown out the sound card or something. Then, earlier Thursday evening . . the same thing happened on my new computer, just like the old. And I luck out and find your suggestion to check the System Sound set-up. Sure enough, worked on the new one . . worked on the old one. Needless to say, I am pissed big time with Apple.

  7. sanju on August 18th, 2009

    I have no sound device in my pc

    Config:
    Mac OSx 10.5.6
    I ntel 945 GCnl mobo

  8. Jaap Weijers on November 16th, 2009

    Thanks a lot for this post! Today (2009-november-16) I ran a software update and my sound disappeared… This helped!

  9. Michele on November 23rd, 2009

    The same happened today after updating from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2.

    Thanks for your post.
    M

  10. Siggi on December 7th, 2009

    Thanks alot for posting this.

  11. Laura on December 14th, 2009

    Thanks so much! Just had this problem after an update, got fed up with waiting on the phone to speak to apple support & found your suggestion. Hurray.

  12. Pablo on December 23rd, 2009

    No sound after Mac OS X update …
    plugged in some earphones, red light started, worked perfect. Thanks

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