External speaker problem

I have a 24inch iMac, with sound stiks speakers. everything was fin till last night. i watched a movie, then went away, came back and the speakers would not work. there has always been some feed back with them on occasion, and recently they have seemed loose, once in a while i would set something on the desk and they would feed back. but now there is nothing. my speakers still work, i have plugged them into the my iphone and they work fine, so there fore it must be my computer. is there anyway of fixing this without taking it to the store. its kinda of a pain to pack up a 24 inch computer. any help would be appreciated.

Have you tried plugging anything else into the audio output jack to make sure it's working?

there are 2 jacks.. one that is for headphones, the other i have always assumed was for the speakers. the headphone jack works when i put headphones in, but does not work when i plug in the speakers. the other one next to is doesnt work with headphones or speakers.

If you look into the jack, do you see a red light?

Most Macs have combined digital and analog audio jacks, so it's possible that your iMac is stuck in digital (optical) audio mode...

Try plugging and unplugging an audio cable a few times to see if that resolves it.

riegeronimo said:

there are 2 jacks.. one that is for headphones, the other i have always assumed was for the speakers. the headphone jack works when i put headphones in, but does not work when i plug in the speakers. the other one next to is doesnt work with headphones or speakers.

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The headphone jack is for "ALL" audio out. The one next to it doesn't work for either of them because it is for audio "in".

I tried pluggin and unplugging the jack a few times and that seemed to do the trick. thanks for the tip. so much better than packing it up to the store.... thanks all for the help.