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Sound volume doesn't stay on MacOS 9.2.2 & iMac/266 Lime
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: portland, oregon, u.s.a.
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hi all,
have an old iMac/266 lime flavor, still running like a champ with MacOS 9.2.2, 160 mb ram, hfs+, etc.
one problem -- i can't get the volume on sound control panel to stay up. it keeps reverting back to 1/4 of the total overall volume.
when i open the control panel, say with something playing on iTunes, i can raise the volume and it does sound louder, but the moment i switch to some other application window, the sound volume jumps right back down to that 1/4 mark level. if i open the sound control panel, raise the volume on the slider and then immediately close the control panel, the sound goes up, than a second later jumps right back down.
this happened with MacOS 9.2.1, so i tried upgrading to 9.2.2, and updating the hard disk drivers, etc., to fix it. didn't work -- still have the same problem.
i have also tried deleting the sound prefs. and restarting, to no avail. on restart, i went into the sound control panel (not the iTunes volume slider -- thanx for mentioning that, but i don't have the two confused). the volume level was *still* down to 1/4 of total volume. i tried resetting the volume slider in the sound control panel to full volume, switched to finder, switched back to the sound countrol panel -- boom, it's back at 1/4 total volume.
any ideas here? any help would be much appreciated.
thanx,
-- 'faddah' steve wolf
����portland, oregon
���� [email protected]
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: New Zealand
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I had the same problem but I'm buggered if I can remember what I did to fix it.
Guesses:
PRAM reset might help
Digidesign Protools free installed (can "take over" your sound options)
ah, I'll give it more thought for ya and come back with a decent post.....
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: portland, oregon, u.s.a.
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actually, it's o.k., i got it figured out, kinda mostly --
i tried someone else's suggestion of deleting the system, finder, macos and sound prefs., restarting, and i even zapped the pram again just to be safe. on re-start, i launched sound, raised the volume to full, switched to finder, switched back -- boom, same problem all over again, it went back down to the smaller 1/4 volume. {{groan!}}
so i then bit the bullet and did the unthinkable, went into extensions manager and loaded only apple extensions. on restart -- whaddya know, worked like a charm. ugh! a dreaded old extension conflict i must now hunt down. sickening, as i have so many of them & cdevs. but at least my network stuff works (which is why i'm able to write this to you now).
thanx for the help, in any case.
sincerely,
-- 'faddah' steve wolf
portland, oregon
[email protected]
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: New Zealand
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Ah, extensions troubleshooting - have fun!
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