Help with my internal speakers

Yesterday my macbook was working fine... but ll of a sudden today I tried to play music and the speakers won't play. I try to turn up and town the volume as usual but there is a circle with an cross through it below the volume bar... Also, there is now a red light that comes out from where the headphone input is. Are my speakers broken or is there some special setting my computer is all of a sudden on?

Hi Charles: I haven't had this particular issue but, I have read about it quite a bit on here. The little switch inside the headphone jack becomes stuck in "Digital/Optical" mode. Most people have success by slightly poking the jack with a small toothpick or similar object. It would probablly be best to use something that was resistant to breaking inside the jack.
Good Luck
Stedman

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1- Under sound in system preferences- output volume is muted and I can't un-click it
2-Also under sound in system preferences no devices are found under output and input
3-The sound symbol doesn't show in the top toolbar.
Also I googled this same problem and a lot of other people say a red laser is coming out of the head jack on the computer, I however don't have this problem.

+The MacBook Pros always seem to have this problem - especially when they get used as 'portable' computers - correction - I mean used at all!... My 07 and 08 MacBook Pro 17s both developed this problem pretty much right away - and I rarely have anything other than one of these $100 'special' cables connected (and I always get an Atari graphics card too!). I have been working from home - so I doubt that it has been connected and disconnected 35 times - and no more than 3 or 4 flings with a dirty head-phone-jack.... so the problem is more than 'dirt' or wear. I live In Mexico, and it tends to be humid and dusty simultaneously.... so where other people might have a 'stuck' switch because of using it, disuse can cause it too. The point is - its not 'user-error', it is a by-product of having one 2mm hole interfacing with those iconic-white Apple 1$ ear-phones, $5000 home stereos, and $50 000 sound-boards... i suppose a mini-dv hdmi would be good.... I just remember my happy disbelief when I discovered the 'little-red-light' on my new and silent Mac - I thought that it jammed to spite my already disappointed frustration with the mediocre connection options I was tinkering with (I know - read the manual)... I guess it was just get me to leave the gold-plated Radio-Shack crap to Dell!+
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Force internal speakers

Hey there,
The pin of my speakers broke inside of my Audio Jack. My warranty has expired and I am not able to get the pin out.
I would like some help on this matter.
So, I tried forcing my mac to revert all sound through the internal speakers. Since there's no software out there that will do this, I'm a bit on my own here.
I changed the preference files in library/preferences/audio
com.apple.audio.SystemSettings.plist
This is what I changed it to. I'm assuming 1B,0,1,2:0 is the code corresponding with my internal speakers.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
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                    <string>AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,2:0</string>
                    <key>secondary default output device</key>
                    <string>AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,2:0</string>
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          <key>version</key>
          <integer>1</integer>
</dict>
</plist>
I also made sure that _coreaudiod is added in the user permissions, through terminal. I gave it a READ ONLY status for coreaudiod, because I don't want it to change on reboot.
Ofcourse I'm not sure wether 1B,0,1,2:0 is actually the right code for my internal speakers. There's no way to test this, other than trial and error. Ofcourse I'm not going to trial&error for hours over this issue.
I rebooted (duh).
Now when I go to preferences it still says for Digital Out - Optical Digital-Out Port
How is this possible, since I have manually overridden it?
Also, please do not respond with:
- Go to apple store & get the pin out
- Get an USB headphone
- Get a new logic board
-> I know these will get the problem fixed, but since my warranty is over I'm not persuading these options.
Basically, I also would be thrilled to be able to solve this using my method. There are other people out there (I googled this thing for hours), who might be helped with a fix.

+I need to enforce the use of headphones.+
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If you look in the headphone jack, can you see a glowing red light? This happened to many people, it was an issue where a switch got tripped to make the computer to think that a pair of headphones or external speakers were plugged in. Try inserting a toothpick inside the headphone jack and gently probing around in there to try and turn off the switch.
See here.
And by the way, you don't need to bump topics that are only three hours old.
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