Volume Locked

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Volume Locked

On my Mac OS X, I am trying to adjust the volume. Unfortunatly, the volume has "locked". I can't move it up or down and the sound (which is at full volume) barely can be heard. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Mac, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 8, 2007 3:58 PM

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Mdg101

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Aug 20, 2007 4:52 PM in response to Hilldog

I had the same issue and noticed a red light coming from my headphone socket. It seems the computer still thinks there is a set of headphones attached. When I plug in the headphones the volume works fine.

If this is the same for you, try inserting and removing the headphones a couple of times until the red light goes out - this worked for me.

Matt

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Aug 9, 2007 12:40 PM in response to Hilldog

You might want to check and see what the output of your Sound preferences is set to.. make sure it didn't get moved to "digital".

Otherwise, do you have any other USB of Firewire audio devices connected to your computer?

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Aug 16, 2007 2:20 AM in response to Hilldog

I'm having the same problem, the volume is all the way up, but won't produce any noise at all (apart from the startup DONG). There's a little circle-with-a-strike-through-it symbol at the bottom of the volume window, but nothing in the system preferences seems to help me out! Any help would be wicked, thanks

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ndubbleu

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Aug 27, 2007 12:57 PM in response to Mdg101

Ran into the same problem... this helped and solved my problem. Thanks!

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B - PDX

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Sep 27, 2007 8:25 AM in response to ndubbleu

Thanks! I was having the same problem, but I tried just inserting the headphones around 10 times and the light turned off. Definitely solved the problem so thanks.

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