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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Hello JohnBoarkman,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I understand that you hear no sound from your accessory when you connect to your headphone jack. My first troubleshooting suggestion for this situation would be resetting the NVRAM on your Mac. Please use the instructions in the attached article to complete this process and let me know if the issue continues.
How to Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support
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In my unibody Macbook, when I run Windows 7, the headphone jack light up in a orange color. It doesn't bother me but I do want to know if its a problem or a future one.

I have had the same issue, when I bootcamp with Win7 the red light is always there. But when I boot up to Snow Leopard the red light is gone.

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occaisionaly a red light comes from my headphone jack and no sound will come from the speakers. the longer i stay on my computer the less the red light comes on and stops whatever it is i'm listening to at the time. i assume it's a setting problem, but i'm computer illiterate and i don't know what to change. i've talked to a few friends with macs about it and they've all never had a problem like this. what should i do to fix it?

Your Macbook has the ability to do optical audio out, so that is what the red light you are seeing is. Normally, an adapter is used for optical audio, but something must have happened to the headphone jack on your Macbook is it is showing without that adapter. Whenever that light is showing, you won't be able to use the headphone jack when that light is showing because it is not sending out that type of audio signal. I would suggest getting it fixed by either calling AppleCare, or making an appointment at the Genius Bar at your local Apple Store.

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It looks like the msi gaming control center should be bundled with WMIHookBtnFn, but it's not. This "utility" by now it's almost useless, only the Wifi and camera switch worked.
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So here's the problem, I have JBL Encounter speakers connected via the headphone jack and since yesterday only the left speaker produces sound.
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I've even switched the right and left satellite speakers and again only left audio is produced... though on the right (side) satellite.
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Sounds as if your headphone jack is either defective or has been damaged by having a cord yanked at some stage, Kanji
It is either a trip to your nearest AASP or a mailing box from Apple to get it resolved. Applecare will cover it if the problem isn't due to accidental damage (though a cat tripping on the cord can be enough to produce such results and the price could accordingly be substantial as the port is mounted on the logicboard on recent MBPs as I understand it) .
You might want to try a regular pair of headphones in the socket to make sure the problem also occurs with them, too, though.
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hi neuroanatomist,
thx for your suggestion
I read about it, but it doesn't really work for me (or maybe I wasn't able to have it work)
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you can fix this by "cleaning" the audio jack. the computer thinks that a digital output is connected. if you go to sound under system preferences, and it says digital output rather than internal speakers, then this is the problem.
I used a tightly rolled up piece of toilet paper to clean the jack. I twisted it up, stuck it in the jack, and then moved it around for a while. the red light went off and my internal speakers started working. someone else used a toothpick.
also, before i fixed this, i couldn't turn the volume up or down (unless i was using headphones) and the volume level screen that shows up on the screen had a circle with a line thru it...like the no smoking signs, but small and just under the volume bars.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3700681&#3700681
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HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
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Intel Core i7-2670QM
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it seems that m1r3k found a very good workaround, at least for the Mid 2010 Mac mini models (that I'm using right now). I don't know if it works also with more recent Mac mini models.
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NOTE:
This is only a workaround for a deliberate choice made by Apple on OS X Lion 10.7.2 and beyond:
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I have a Gateway ZX4971 that came from factory with Windows 7 installed, all specs and windows component info is below.
Everything worked fine for over a year then windows applied an update and I no longer have sound coming from my headphone jack or internal speakers.
I have tried restoring the system back to before the update and it didn't make a difference. I have also reinstalled windows and still no sound.
Audio troubleshooter does not discover any connection issues.
There are no errors in device manager, speaker properties, or Audio Properties.
Volume Mixer shows audio is being played with sound indicator.
I must use a USB audio dongle and external speaker to have sound

Hi,
According to your description, since system reinstallation is not helpful, it's probably a hardware problem, it would be better to check if it is the device itself problem.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

After using external speakers headphone jack no longer works

Hi, i plugged in some external speakers yesterday, the type that have two channel inputs (red and white) from my headphone jack. the speakers didnt seem to work, i thought it was the speakers that were broken, but now nothing will work from the headphone jack. the computer recognises they are there but there is no sound at all apart from slight fuzziness. it is nothing to do with the red light connection as ive had this problem before and its not that this time. i have reset vram and done the SMC reset too, but none of this has worked. the internal speakers work fine. nothing is muted, nothing is unbalanced. i have read everything single thread about similar problems and tried all the solutions i can find. can anyone help!!?? :'.(

Replacing a faceplate on an 83xx device is not a simple operation. It is not meant to be disassembled by the consumer. This is a risk you take of disassembling a working device. You may be able to disassemble and fix but there is no way for us to know whether you can fix it or not.
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Bye, Frido.

2. I can not get the Headphone jack to work, it does
not show up in the sound preferences, I only get to
choose between internal speaker, Digital Out or
LineOut.
when you plug a headphone into the headphone jack,
the internal speaker turns off and you get sound
in the headphone instead. No need to change the choice.

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