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f3 doesnt mute startup sound?
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i was searching on this topic on google, and some have said that holding down the mute key while turning the laptop on should mute the startup sound. apparently this isnt working on my powerbook. is it supposed to or is there no way to do it without muting the sound first before turning it off?
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You can't selectively mute the startup beep. If the sound was muted before restarting the machine, it gets saved to PRAM so the startup beep is muted. If sound was not muted, the startup beep sounds normally. Holding F3 at boot time does not have any affect.
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Yeah you have to mute the sound before shutting the computer down or you'll get the sound.
BTW if it bugs you (like it did to me) just search on VersionTracker for Startup Sound- I found a small freeware app that will auto-mute the volume of your PB prior to shutdown/restart and un-mute on reboot, so that you do not hear the startup sound. Alternatively you can use it to adjust the volume of the sound if you think it is too loud but still would like to hear it.
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FYI, it's called the "startup chime", so you might have better luck searching for the official name.
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Originally posted by tooki:
FYI, it's called the "startup chime", so you might have better luck searching for the official name.
tooki
And if you work in a tech shop it's called the "Happy Mac" sound because, when it sounds at boot, it means that the machine has passed its various internal hardware tests. Good stuff. 
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At Apple, we called it the startup chime or the boot beep, interchangeably.
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thanks for the clarification
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Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
And if you work in a tech shop it's called the "Happy Mac" sound because, when it sounds at boot, it means that the machine has passed its various internal hardware tests. Good stuff.
At the shops I worked at, we called it the startup chime. :shrug:
We called non-happy sounds other things. Besides, it's possible to have a machine chime successfully and still have failed hardware tests, esp on modern Macs that deactivate bad RAM (rather than complain) as long as some good RAM is still around...
tooki
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