MacBook - Red Light?

GothixEmo · GothixEmo #1 (**permalink**)

05-17-2008, 07:07 AM

When I boot up my Mac with Vista, it all runs fine, but there's no sound and the headphone port has a red light glowing in it.
This light doesn't apear when I boot it up with Mac OS X and it even has sound in OS X.
Why is there no sound in Vista? And what does that red lght mean?

Skyrider007 · Skyrider007 #2 (**permalink**)

05-17-2008, 08:05 AM

Are you sure you are talking about a MacBook? As far as I am concerned, the red light seems to be the digital audio output for fibre optic connection (available on the MacBook Pros).

NPuter · NPuter #3 (**permalink**)

05-17-2008, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Skyrider007

Are you sure you are talking about a MacBook? As far as I am concerned, the red light seems to be the digital audio output for fibre optic connection (available on the MacBook Pros).

right now every apple computer model (except the MBA) has a combined headphone/optical digital audio output jack...

Skyrider007 · Skyrider007 #4 (**permalink**)

05-17-2008, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by NPuter

right now every apple computer model (except the MBA) has a combined headphone/optical digital audio output jack...

hmmmmm, then his MacBook's digital output may have been accidentally turned on thereby not emitting analogue signal. I guess a PRAM reset will fix this issue.

Waterpolo820 · Waterpolo820 #5 (**permalink**)

05-17-2008, 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GothixEmo

When I boot up my Mac with Vista, it all runs fine, but there's no sound and the headphone port has a red light glowing in it.
This light doesn't apear when I boot it up with Mac OS X and it even has sound in OS X.
Why is there no sound in Vista? And what does that red lght mean?

I had this red light problem too, after installing Vista via bootcamp, I think it went away,

Did you install the drivers??

I'll check if it still there after I'm done downloading.

Eric559 · Eric559 #6 (**permalink**)

05-17-2008, 05:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NPuter

right now every apple computer model (except the MBA) has a combined headphone/optical digital audio output jack...

Never knew that before!

Waterpolo820 · Waterpolo820 #7 (**permalink**)

05-17-2008, 05:39 PM

Well I just restarted and booted into Vista, and No red light, so I think if you install the drivers you will get sound and the red light will go away.

And right after I looked at the audio jack, came here, logged in to respond, and then the blue screen of death took over, oh why do i even try with Vista?!

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GothixEmo #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 15	05-17-2008, 07:07 AM When I boot up my Mac with Vista, it all runs fine, but there's no sound and the headphone port has a red light glowing in it. This light doesn't apear when I boot it up with Mac OS X and it even has sound in OS X. Why is there no sound in Vista? And what does that red lght mean?
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Skyrider007 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jul 07, 2007 Location: Loughborough, England Posts: 449 Mac Specs: 15" MacBook Pro (Early 2008) 2.4GHz 4GB RAM running 10.5.4	05-17-2008, 08:05 AM Are you sure you are talking about a MacBook? As far as I am concerned, the red light seems to be the digital audio output for fibre optic connection (available on the MacBook Pros).
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Waterpolo820 #7 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 27, 2008 Location: the OC, SoCal Posts: 536 Mac Specs: 2x 2.2 C2D MBP 15", 3x Mac Classic, Mac Mini, iPhone 3G, Clamshell	05-17-2008, 05:39 PM Well I just restarted and booted into Vista, and No red light, so I think if you install the drivers you will get sound and the red light will go away. And right after I looked at the audio jack, came here, logged in to respond, and then the blue screen of death took over, oh why do i even try with Vista?!
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