Comments on: No sound after Mac OS X 10.5.6 update?

By: K Dexter

K Dexter — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:49:12 +0000

I did the put the headphones and and take out…. I did put the headphones in and restart…. I did everything mentioned above, but as soon as I take the headphones out my volume is grayed out. The only output option I have is is headphone port or optical digital-out port. I can’t select internal speakers. Any solutions for this?

By: Albert

Albert — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:29:34 +0000

Just needed/found/used this tip today. Worked perfect, saved me from frustration. Thanks

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:44:31 +0000

Thanks for posting this fix. After updating to 10.6.8 I had no audio. This did the trick.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:20:51 +0000

Just did a Lion OS update and my sound was no longer working. Switched the choice back to “internal speakers” and everything is working fine once again. Thanks!

By: Kert

Kert — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:56:30 +0000

Thanks so much. A really easy fix. Would not have found it without your help.

By: jose

jose — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:03:56 +0000

great help

By: Regret

Regret — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:21:32 +0000

Same deal – OSX upgrade to 10.6.8. Sound didn’t work (no sound) through internal speakers, after plugging in and unplugging the headphones, sound worked. No reboot needed.

By: Eli

Eli — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:07:03 +0000

SORTED: plug in the headphones … restart your computer! it did the trick for me!

By: Eli

Eli — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:59:18 +0000

Same here: built-in Audio …. any suggestions?

By: rknbass26

rknbass26 — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:15:47 +0000

Installed update to Itunes (10.2), now I’m not getting sound and it won’t let me choose internal speakers as an output source. The only choice is Built-in Audio, not built in speakers. Any suggestions? Mind you my Imac is pre-Intel.

By: vinod

vinod — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:58:44 +0000

i want to enable sound in my Imac , this sound was disabled by admin..please tell me some way to enable the sounds in my mac.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:15:37 +0000

Thanks. Couldn’t figure out what happened, now I have sound again.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:06:38 +0000

Thanks for posting it solved my problem quickly…
Never showed me anything other than a headphones option ??
But after I de-activated the mute button my sound was back

By: Dot

Dot — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:30:33 +0000

thanks , this is very useful , :)

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:54:35 +0000

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

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:27:05 +0000

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.

By: Siggi

Siggi — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:32:10 +0000

Thanks alot for posting this.

By: Michele

Michele — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:44:24 +0000

The same happened today after updating from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2.

Thanks for your post.
M

By: Jaap Weijers

Jaap Weijers — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:47:26 +0000

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

By: sanju

sanju — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:49:57 +0000

I have no sound device in my pc

Config:
Mac OSx 10.5.6
I ntel 945 GCnl mobo

By: Dogh

Dogh — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:54:54 +0000

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.

By: Philothea

Philothea — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:52:53 +0000

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 :)

By: Perkabalo

Perkabalo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:11:01 +0000

Thanks working now! :D

By: Wilma

Wilma — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:40:52 +0000

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

By: John

John — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:18:32 +0000

Thanks for the advice. It worked a treat. Cheers