without thinking this used to happen to me if I started garageband the sound would come back. Is your friend using another audio program which is changing priorities?
On 14 Feb 2010, at 22:47, Gladys Perez-Almiroty wrote: > > good sunday to all: > my friend inherited my imac g5 running tiger up to date clean install and had > erased all previous data. this is > > i used target disk mode to transfer his user data from an imac g4 17" to the > g5. > > everything seemed well until i realized there was no sound. sound preference > says "digital out". i tried deleting the pref and installed a fresh one and > sound returned for a few days but then was gone again. the sound preference > again shows "digital out". > > there is boot sound and if theres are speakers the sound is ok. > > any ideas? > > thanks in advanced > > gladys -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist