The sound on my Macbook Pro isn't working at all. None of it.

The speakers don't work and neither do the headphones. When I turn up the volume, the icon comes up and it looks fine, but it's not making any noise. Like, it will show the animation and everything with no "not working" notification, but the little popping noise is just gone. I've been trying to watch a video for homewlrk all afternoon and it's been one thing after the next--I'm going cazy! Help!

Have you gone to System Preferences > Sound > Output and is the volume slider above the minimum end of the bar?

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