[trek2008]

Is there a way to change the start up music? If so, how?

[Randman]

There's been posts on this. You did search? If not, the answer is no, you can't change the chime as it's part of the firmware. However, you can do some hacks to change the volume. Do a search for chime and you should find it.

[Madrag]

I agree with Randman, but in the OS 9 (and previous) days, there was an extension that allowed to play a sound file while the extensions were loading...
Maybe there is something simmilar for OS X...

BTW I usually don't even hear the chime after a restart... (maybe the sound output isn't yet available?)

[tooki]

The sound is available.

tooki

[monkeybrain]

You should hear the chime, if you don't something is wrong (that's what it's for). Sure you don't have it going to external speakers that aren't on?



For the original poster, for sounds on startup look at this: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17737

[Madrag]

no, I'm using the internal speaker (which works)

(sorry to hijack the topic)

[monkeybrain]

Originally posted by Madrag:
no, I'm using the internal speaker (which works)

(sorry to hijack the topic)

I noticed you have the other thread about the missing apps, not sure if it related though. Perhaps that cache cleaning is stopping the chime too. (However, I was under the impression that the chime was in firmware). Huh, not sure. I'd look into this if I was you, sorry not much experience with a problem like this myself.

[STAT]

Or perhaps you just had the system volume turned down when you turned off the machine last.

[Madrag]

no, the volume is at the max...

maybe it can be related to the cache subject, as monkeybrain suggested...

[monkeybrain]

I found this on Apple support boards: http://discussions.info.apple.com/we....2@.689f0d2f/0

So I'd try resetting PRAM like that poster suggested, and then running the hardware tests. Hope that helps

[Madrag]

I'll try that! thanks for pointing me to that link!