Internal speakers--no sound outputs

Internal speakers suddenly stopped working. Sound output through headphones works. System preferences for sound selection box is grayed-out where you can select internal speakers or headphones for alert sounds.
Used applejack on disk. Repaired permissions. No luck.
This eMac has OS 10.4.11

Hi Bob et al,
But I'm still puzzled by the grayed-out box in the sounds prefs. It won't let me select anything for system sounds
In the eMac when you plug a head phone in there's a circuit in the jack that defeats the internal speakers. This can get damaged, usually by someone ripping out a set of headphones while it's plugged in. When that happens the system would see the speakers as "disconnected".
I've repaired this in CRT iMacs but at the school we use a "dongle" so it takes the abuse vs the iMac/eMac.
In the CRTs the problem was damage to the sub board which required soldering. In the eMac the logic board would have to come out and the solder connection inspected if that's OK the jack would have to be replaced.
Richard
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