My Mac find of the day (of the year?)

[JoeH]

lemmingboy wrote:
[quote=Black]
Excellent, congratulations!
17" or 20"?

There are tips on various boards to look inside the audio port-- the red light should not be on if there's nothing plugged in-- supposedly tickling it with a toothpick can unjam the switch that tells it something is plugged in.

But if you've got external speakers, who cares . . .

Definitely check this out. Had this happen on my old MBP and thought the audio was dead. One night after I turned the lights out I saw the red glow coming from the minijack and realized the optical out was stuck. The only fix is to manually poke around with a toothpick and untrigger the button.

Before realizing this no audio on headphones or built in speaker.

-Shawn
Any trick to getting the right place poked in the headphone jack? My MacBook will either show Optical out or work with headphones. But it does not get back to using the internal speakers. I can poke around and get the internal speakers active for a short bit, but it goes back to the optical out and turns on the red light in the jack fairly quickly.

[Racer X]

Black wrote:
Excellent, congratulations!
17" or 20"?

There are tips on various boards to look inside the audio port-- the red light should not be on if there's nothing plugged in-- supposedly tickling it with a toothpick can unjam the switch that tells it something is plugged in.

But if you've got external speakers, who cares . . .

dude, tickling the little red button......... really?

[DRR]

IIRC you can do a processor swap and upgrade that Core Duo to a Core 2 Duo.

Nice find.

[RAMd®d]

dude, tickling the little red button......... really?

Yeah, when I read that, I thought the post was from rg.