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Alright, so I'm using a Mac Powerbook G4. Recently, I've been randomly losing my sound altogether. It's not like it's just iTunes or just Quicktime or whatever, I am losing my sound entirely. Eventually, it always comes back, but even when I increase and decrease the sound, I hear nothing. Sometimes when I go to System Preferences and fiddle with the balance it'll turn back on, but not always. Is this my speakers, or my sound card, or what? What should I do?

Switch to PC.

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Hell no.

Then suffer the hells of the moribund Mac user. See if I care.

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I had way more problems when I used Windows, for my own part.

Haha, I've just always had a PC. For the last 20 years in fact. I'm very used to them. I sorta understand how they work. Macs on the other hand, I've used rarely and always been anoyed by the differences. At one job, I used one for 2 years (admittedly an oldish one) and still hated it. Habit.

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LM. Try the discussions page for Apple:
discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

Chances are someone's had the same problem as you. It should at least give you a guide to narrow down the list.

(Don't listen to Av. He probably is a virus writer. )

That far, I would never go. We'll get you macs yet.... No, seriously, I'm joking.

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I don't know about mac, per se, but can you plug earphones into the sucka that are independant of the speakers? If so, that will at least rule out speaker problems.

I'm a PC person, but I don't have a bias, except of ignorance. I get frustrated the couple times I've used a mac because I don't know what I'm doing. It looks familiar, yet has different ways about going about things. Kinda like when I visit Atlanta suburbs after living in Colorado.

But if it was a pc, and maybe it could relate, this is what I'd do.

Do your speakers hook directly into the sound card? If so, take out of the plug for the speakers and put headphones in there. If they work perfectly for a while, then bad speakers. If not,

Oh, crap...just realized it is probably a laptop like thing. Never mind the next step. And probably the first piece of advise too. Umm....should probably not post, but I like to show off my stupidity, so here we go.

Heh. I haven't had a single problem with it for the past couple days - ever since I plugged earphones into it, and then plugged them out at one point when the sound was totally nonexistent. Now all of a sudden it looks like a charm. Weird...

Ahh...the magic of computers.

Aren't they wonderful?

Cagliostro wrote:Ahh...the magic of computers.

Aren't they wonderful?

When they work and you don't have to keep removing spyware, viruses, trojans from friends' computers, that is

Avatar - looks like if you're a virus writer we're going to have to keep tabs on you over at A.S.A.P.

Nah, me, I'm harmless.

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