Headphone jack gone crazy

All of the sudden the sound coming through the headphone jack is corrupted. If i unplug the headphones, the music sounds perfect (through the built-in speakers). When i plug the headphones again it sounds like if the audio files were corrupted. I already updated the software and have checked the settings and everything looks normal.
HELP ME!

Make sure it just isn't the headset you own

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Hello hye ,Sorry , Red light at my headphone jack gone when i format the laptop.
and i want to ask. That headphone jack had a driver for red light or not. because it look style when redlight at there..
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I am assuming that you did a One Key Recovery and restored your operating system to a like new condition ?
The red light should be OFF when everything is working properly on the your model. If you did the One Key Recovery then the restoration corrected a driver problem with the audio that was causing the red light.
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I5 iMac and Windows 7: Headphone jack usage makes 1 core extra crazy

Hi. I wasn't even sure where to post this, but here goes...
I got a new iMac at the Apple Store a few days ago. The same day, I installed Vista Ultimate. Right away, I noticed that the cpu cores (in Task Manager) were in use, one at about 100%. The overall CPU Usage showed 35%. No apps in use.
To make a long story short, I never could figure it out.
So I went and bought Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade yesterday. Installed that (64-bit). Everything is great, but the cores were still going crazy.
Turns out that when I unplug my speakers from the headphone jack, it drops to 0% cpu usage! The performance didn't seem to have been affected by it, but it bothered me.
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I'm surprised to see this happening with the new iMac Core i5/i7s. I would expect Windows 7 to be better in that dept than Mac OS.
Did you manage to find and try to update audio device drivers? RealTek?
Mac OS on 2009 Mac Pro, have high cpu in audio, flash, java as well as iTunes - but not in Windows 7. If you monitor temps (Hardware Monitor for OS X, RealTemp and Everest Ultimate), you will see quick jump in temperate, which is normal, even launching windows or apps. But the Mac Pro is 20*C higher and stays there in OS X, but not Windows 7.
That whole 35%/100% would indicate thread locking going on. And more prone with Core i7 (4 cores, 8 virtual cores with hyper-threading).
The part of the older Windows kernel that had responsibility for managing scheduling was the dispatcher, and it was protected by a global lock. "The dispatcher database lock originally protected the integrity of all the scheduler-related data structures," said Kishan. "This includes things like thread priorities, ready queues, any object that you might be able to wait on, like an event, semaphore, mutex, I/O completion port timers, asynchronous procedure calls -- all of it was protected by the scheduler, which protected everything by the dispatcher lock.
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Headphone Jack Light + Internal Speakers Gone?

When I took out the cable to my speakers from my PowerBook's headphone jack I noticed a red light inside the socket. I plugged the cable back in and the light turned off but came back on about half a second after I took it out again. There is a small LED inside the hole and I have never seen it before. The computer also stopped playing sound out of it's internal speakers completely and in the System Preferences sound menu there is only a line-out option, no internal speaker one. It seems like the light is telling me that I have to plug in speakers to hear sound, but why? The laptop has always worked fine until now so what has made it suddenly do this and how can I get the internal speakers working again?

The light is a fiber optic fiber. Your jack has a dual use. You can use a fober optical cable to get a digital line-out. Your problem may be related, but that's what the light is so don't go sticking anything in there (such as a paper clip) as so many people tend to do for some reason.

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yip it sounds like you have fried a circuit..
have u tried different head phones? the input/output should be different circuits so not sure y the output is going funny?
you looked at the input/output settings on the macbook?? what about the "AUDIO MIDI SETUP"?? it may have an inbuilt cutoff that tripped??? well hopping it has for ur sake..
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Moving pins in the jack worked on my laptop.
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Petition: Make the headphone jack problem's status publ

Dear CEO of Creative Labs [I still have to find out how to contact the CEO]:
I was very excited about buying your product, the Creative Nomad Zen Micro, as an alternati've to competitors such as Apple's iPod mini and the Rio Carbon. I was impressed by the numerous features, the looks, and the size of the player, which could fit into the palm of your hand.
Unfortunately, I came across a serious problem with the player that could have serious consuquences on my (and many other people's) buying descisions. There seems to be a defect in the headphone jack of the player, causing it to pop loose and make the sound intermittently come through only one of the headphones, in a few months or even a matter of days, making the player unusable.
Countless members of the Creative community in the forums on your website have gone through three to four Micros with this problem, as well as people commenting on the player at review websites such as Cnet. There have been numerous messages sent to customer support about this problem, but it has all been attributed to user error.
If you just take a look at the Creative forum, there are so many people with this problem that it can't possibly be a rare manufacturing defect, especially considering the fact that quite a few people have gone through 2 or 3 micros already, all with the same problem. We are not asking you to immediately fix the problem, we understand that it would probably entail a large and costly effort to do so. What we do want to know is that we want a public announcement of the problem, whether Creative has confirmed it or not, and what is being done/not being done about it, and perhaps customer tips about how to avoid it. There have been rumors that the headphone jack as been supposedly reinforced by a metal plate, and others... Many potential creative customers like such as me are left in the dark about what most forum users refer to as the "dreaded" headphone jack problem. We would like to know about it, what to do to avoid it, and whether or not something is being done/has been done to new products to prevent this problem from happening. Again, contacting support has not answered our questions.
If I, (and countless other potential customers), are uncertian about this problem, we might as well give up a few features like the FM tuner and buy and iPod mini or another competing product free of such a problem. We would very much appreciate it if you would publicly release information about this problem.
Please contact me at the address shown. [Yes, this IS a snail-mail letter] We are all looking forward to a reply. For more information, please refer to the petition here:
[http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=dap&message.id=34476]
Sincerely,
The Creative Forum Community
Any suggestions/comments/corrections? (This is just a quick first draft) Please sign here for the petition. Also, you could post "testimonials" about your opinion on the headphone jack problem. I'm not expecting a reply from the CEO him/herself but I hope to get a better response than just an email to support.Message Edited by CreativeHead on 03-7-2005 02:03 PM

There are threads ongoing on similar topics. This is not a suitable topic for this forum.
I will pass on any comments from the other threads and original post in this one, but I'm closing this topic and any further petitions like this as it will just result in "Creative-bashing" and unproducti've comments.
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GREAT! The headphone jack problem has hit

Well, after about one month of owning what I thought was a great player my headphone jack is crapping out!
To answer quesitons about abuse in advance, let me say this >>> From day one, i have used an L-shape extension plug. So for anyone who thought that was a solution >>> WRONG!
Regardless of what you may thing, I also baby this player. That doesn't mean it doesn't get used. I bet it gets 3-4 hours of use a day. So after about 30 days, it has had about 90 - 20 hours of use and the plug is beginning to fail.
The gap on my jack is towards the top (towards the screen). Everytime the plug gets bumped in that direction then the problem occurs. It is also that way now when I first turn on the player. I have to unplug and plug back in. I'm sure this is going to get worse quickly.
So, i guess it's RMA time. YIPPEE!
I read that they are reinforcing the plug now. Are people receiving reinforced Micro's now as part of their RMA?
Does my 90 day replacement warranty reset when I get the new player?
I am thoroughly dissatisfied, that they didn't reinforce that plug to begin with!

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I have been searching for a while to see if anyone else has this problem.
I have random faint digital noise (bleeps, bloops, and whirls) from my headphone jack. This happens regardless of application. I can get it going good by just tossing the volume bar back and forth on the sound pref panel.
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I have disconnected everything non essential from the Mac Pro and my power outlet are reduced to a minimum. (monitor and Mac)
I have tried numerous headphones including Etymotic ER•6 and Sony MDR-7505.
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I have read the following below and believe these do not apply to me because this is not an external powered device.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86523
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86655
Thank you!
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I found out today what is causing the noise on my Mac Pro!
Our next door neighbor has a really high power HAM radio that I am picking up static and transmissions from. I thought I was going insane when I heard weird voices coming out via my headphones. I know it is our neighbor because I heard him relay his name and location. Had to get my wife to listen to prove I was not going crazy.
Here is the weird thing. I do not have AirPort or BlueTooth on the MacPro...so I cannot figure out how the transmission is permeating the Mac. Could it be a shielding issue on some internal component?
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After installing an update I am no longer able to hear sound out of my speakers. A red light comes on where the headphone jack is. I have already attempted to trip to switch with a wooden toothpick in the headphone jack but have not had luck.

after installing an update I am no longer able to hear sound out of my speakers. A red light comes on where the headphone jack is. I have already attempted to trip to switch with a wooden toothpick in the headphone jack but have not had luck.

Have you gone into system prefs nad made sure that the headphone port is set to audio out. And not audio in.
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Shut your mac down.
Press the startup button.
Hold down the following keys. Command Option P and R. Wait till you hear the chime 2 times. Then let go. See if that fixes it.

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Thanks but thats not gonna happen. Way too expensive, the company I bought the replacement off send me another one maybe its the ribbon. Im going to restore it first though.

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