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Hello;
Recently after working for years, my headphones plugged into my Mac are not recognized after being unplugged and plugged back in..
If I do a reboot/restart my headphones are recognized and show up in sound preferences until I again unplug them.
I reset the Pram, no differences. I did a shutdown then power on, no difference.
Any thoughts or advice.
thanks
Neil
Parallels, macOS 10.12
Tuco09 wrote:
Hello;
Recently after working for years, my headphones plugged into my Mac are not recognized after being unplugged and plugged back in..
If I do a reboot/restart my headphones are recognized and show up in sound preferences until I again unplug them.
I reset the Pram, no differences. I did a shutdown then power on, no difference.
Any thoughts or advice.
Parallels, macOS 10.12
What exact Mac is this...?
What exact macOS are you currently running?
You can try both on an Intel Mac—
Try resetting the SMC https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
Try resetting NVRAM/PRAM http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
(get at least two-three rounds of the chimes when holding the NRAM Reset)
if no resolve try a safeboot and test. Reboot as normal and test
Tuco09 wrote:
Hello;
Recently after working for years, my headphones plugged into my Mac are not recognized after being unplugged and plugged back in..
If I do a reboot/restart my headphones are recognized and show up in sound preferences until I again unplug them.
I reset the Pram, no differences. I did a shutdown then power on, no difference.
Any thoughts or advice.
Parallels, macOS 10.12
What exact Mac is this...?
What exact macOS are you currently running?
You can try both on an Intel Mac—
Try resetting the SMC https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
Try resetting NVRAM/PRAM http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
(get at least two-three rounds of the chimes when holding the NRAM Reset)
if no resolve try a safeboot and test. Reboot as normal and test
Tuco09 wrote:
Good Day;
I reset the SMC and the PRAM. There was no difference.
I tried a safe boot. After about 3 minutes with nothing appearing to happen I shut down. Upon trying to restart I kept hearing a single beep, which I think meant no memory installed. I tried to restart a few times with the same beep sound. I ended up doing a SMC reset than a reboot. After a few times of trying this my mac finally booted . This was a 20 minute procedure.
Not sure what I did wrong but for a moment I thought my Mac was toast.
Instead of trying the safe boot again and corrupting my Mac I guess I will live with the reboot to get the headphone option back.
Thanks for your advie and help in any event.
If it is an ongoing issue— you can always take in, In or out of warranty you can get a free over the counter 'Apple Service Diagnostics' test /assessment
Make an appointment for a "hardware issue"
https://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/
Outside the USA
https://locate.apple.com/country
You can try running the user Diagnostic...not as definitive as Apple's own AST2 (Apple Service Toolkit) back bench diagnostic, but may kick out an error code.
Use Apple Diagnostics to test your Mac
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202731
If your Mac beeps during startup
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202768
Thanks for the reply;
I thought when I posted that my Mac and OS info were included, sorry about that.
Mac is Late 2013 27 " )S is Catalina 10.15.7.
I will work through your suggestions later today and post back.
Thanks
Neil
Good Day;
I reset the SMC and the PRAM. There was no difference.
I tried a safe boot. After about 3 minutes with nothing appearing to happen I shut down. Upon trying to restart I kept hearing a single beep, which I think meant no memory installed. I tried to restart a few times with the same beep sound. I ended up doing a SMC reset than a reboot. After a few times of trying this my mac finally booted . This was a 20 minute procedure.
Not sure what I did wrong but for a moment I thought my Mac was toast.
Instead of trying the safe boot again and corrupting my Mac I guess I will live with the reboot to get the headphone option back.
Thanks for your advie and help in any event.
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