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Just installed lion...no sound

Just installed Lion on my MBP (mid-2009) and no sound from internal speakers. Controls are "grayed" out when I try to mute, volume down, and volume up. Thanks for any help.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 1:24 PM

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Jul 20, 2011 2:05 PM in response to cjjones21

Try going to Audio Midi Setup in Applications>Utilities and see if Internal Speakers are in the lefthand column. If so click on it and use the control gearwheel at the bottom to select this as your audio output device. You can also test the sound in Configure Speakers in the same panel. I wish you luck - my external JBL Creature speakers have stopped working since I installed Lion today!

Jul 20, 2011 3:42 PM in response to stillhuman

Got it. Figured it was something simple. Just restarted with out having anything plugged into the audio outputs. Back in business. The upside- I pulled out some great old records while sound was down. 🙂


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Scratch that! still nothing. Thought I was in business b/c my volume bar was no longer grayed. But still no input or output devices.


Message was edited by: stillhuman

Jul 20, 2011 11:50 PM in response to cjjones21

I have an early 2011 13" MBP that works fine after upgrading to Mac OS X Lion 10.7 and a late 2009 13" MBP that has the same issue (Volume controls are greyed out) When I plug in headphones they come back, when I remove them they work, when I reboot they are greyed out again. I tried reinstalling twice, I changed several setting and deleted various cache files without any lasting effect. Where can I submit this bug? 😕

Just installed lion...no sound

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