Hey,
For the past couple of months my Macbook has been doing some strange things, one (and most annoyingly) of these things is that the volume keeps muting itself.
My macbook has started to hang quite often as well, and everytime it hangs, the volume mutes.
Also, when I begin to play a video either from hard drive or DVD, there will be no sound (even if the volume control is unmuted) for about 20 seconds, and the video will keep freezing and hanging for anything from 30 seconds to a few minutes.
Two days ago, in an effort to fix this problem I reinstalled OS X (using the archive and install option - as I didn't want to have to reinstall and recover everything) and for these two days it was working beautifully, and since last night (when I reinstalled Pro Tools LE 8 because for some reason my Mbox wasn't connecting) it has been playing up again.
Before reinstalling the OS I had looked around on forums and support pages to try and find answers or solutions, there were posts from this saying that defragging was the way forward, so I purchased iDefrag and it defragmented my highly fragmented hard drive, but it didn't solve it. Then I read that strange behaviour and lessened performance can be caused by a lack of HDD space (I had 16GB left out of a 160GB HDD) so I upgraded to a 320GB HDD - still no luck.
I have also tried resetting the PRAM, and running the Apple Hardware Test. Neither have made any difference.
Has anyone got any clues as to why this is happening?
I have a Macbook (White 2008) with OS X 10.5.8.
Thanks
Lee
For the past couple of months my Macbook has been doing some strange things, one (and most annoyingly) of these things is that the volume keeps muting itself.
My macbook has started to hang quite often as well, and everytime it hangs, the volume mutes.
Also, when I begin to play a video either from hard drive or DVD, there will be no sound (even if the volume control is unmuted) for about 20 seconds, and the video will keep freezing and hanging for anything from 30 seconds to a few minutes.
Two days ago, in an effort to fix this problem I reinstalled OS X (using the archive and install option - as I didn't want to have to reinstall and recover everything) and for these two days it was working beautifully, and since last night (when I reinstalled Pro Tools LE 8 because for some reason my Mbox wasn't connecting) it has been playing up again.
Before reinstalling the OS I had looked around on forums and support pages to try and find answers or solutions, there were posts from this saying that defragging was the way forward, so I purchased iDefrag and it defragmented my highly fragmented hard drive, but it didn't solve it. Then I read that strange behaviour and lessened performance can be caused by a lack of HDD space (I had 16GB left out of a 160GB HDD) so I upgraded to a 320GB HDD - still no luck.
I have also tried resetting the PRAM, and running the Apple Hardware Test. Neither have made any difference.
Has anyone got any clues as to why this is happening?
I have a Macbook (White 2008) with OS X 10.5.8.
Thanks
Lee