Comments on: Macbook Pro Digital Out (Stuck)

By: Andy Poeste

Andy Poeste — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:25:24 +0000

Had the same problem with a new MBP15 (arrived today), I reinstalled Snow Leopard and it made no difference – so it’s going back to the Apple Store tomorrow! This is a stupid problem that’s been around for years – and yet Apple Support doesn’t seem to know anything about it….at least, when I phoned them I could hear them scratching their heads between ingenuous gasps and denials of knowledge of such a heinous fault.
Is there no permanent solution? Sticking QTips and paperclips, and vigorous headphone jack ’stimulation’ seems a little low-tech to me as a fix for a known problem.

By: J.B.

J.B. — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:01:25 +0000

It is not a software problem. A reinstall will not help. I just had this issue.. I took a q-tip and cut the head off and fiddled around in the port until my volume control started to work.. It gets dirty in there and sometimes things stick..

By: joseph

joseph — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:00:01 +0000

my new macbook is doing the same thing. is reinstall the only help?

By: Hjorvar

Hjorvar — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:18:42 +0000

thanks man, my MBP was stuck on digital out, used an optical cable (a bit longer), pugged and unplugged 4-5 times and I am back in business. If every probelm would be solved in 5 secs after taking the advice from the first webpage you stumble accross life would be sweet
Cheers,
H