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10.4.10 Snap Crackle Pop

Just updated to 10.4.10 and now my mini entertains me with random popping noises from the speakers, just as if the audio port was turning itself off and on in minute intervals. Drives me bonkers.

Mac mini 1.83, Mac OS X (10.4.9), iPod nano 4GB, Dell Axim x30 wireless

Posted on Jun 20, 2007 4:31 PM

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Posted on Jun 20, 2007 4:35 PM

Oh oh! i spoke too soon in my earlier post when i said "All was well", ive got the popping noise too...anyone?.
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Jun 20, 2007 4:52 PM in response to Kar98

Ever since I got my MacBook Pro, the right speaker makes a hiss noise. If I am on AC, it only does it on boot for a few seconds, and if I am on battery, it does it every time a sound plays. It does it under OS X and Windows, so I assume it's some sort of hardware issue, but since it doesn't do it all the time I didn't really worry much about it.

Now since updating to .10, it's making the hiss noise every minute or so.

-Z

Jun 20, 2007 5:21 PM in response to NightHawksleeper

Join the Apple Developer Connection at http://developer.apple.com/ and they'll gladly provide you a seed copy. Might be a bit expensive, however. Barring that, you could get an invite from Apple directly. Note that the testing program's been going on for a bit and I'd be surprised that they'd invite anyone at this late date. Amazon is accepting prepurchase orders.

Jun 20, 2007 7:04 PM in response to Kar98

Mine seems to have stopped doing the popping noise every 15 seconds, and rather just does it right before a sound is produced. It doesn't pop when music or EyeTV are playing. Only when something or other decides no sound is playing, so the sound card can be turned off...resulting in a off-popping noise, and an on-popping noise when the system is about to emit a sound.

Work-around for now (for me anyway) is to turn off the audible notifications in Adium...and I guess leave iTunes running.

Jun 20, 2007 8:16 PM in response to WalrusC

I have the same issue and am on a MacBook Core Duo 2.0Ghz. Just so you know what the sound is:

The sound is the sound of the audio chip going into power save mode. If you play a sound after it goes into power save mode, the audio system will make the same thump sound (if you have big speakers like mine) and the sound will play.

This is expected behavior when you are running a laptop and on battery power. It is not supposed to do this on AC power. So Apple really screwed something up as now it does it all the time. Can't have this. Apple, please fix this mess pronto!

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