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Startup Chime - Turn it off?
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2002
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Is there a way to turn off or at least turn down the startup chime?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Mute the volume before you shutdown/restart.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: RTP, NC
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Actually, I don't get the chime at all and I have no idea why. It's not the volume being muted, I can assure you. I miss it - anyone know why I don't have it?
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: california
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Originally posted by Zoom:
Actually, I don't get the chime at all and I have no idea why. It's not the volume being muted, I can assure you. I miss it - anyone know why I don't have it?
if you have pre 10.2(.x?), the startup chime volume is actually determined by system 9's last volume at shutdown.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: RTP, NC
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Originally posted by superlarry:
if you have pre 10.2(.x?), the startup chime volume is actually determined by system 9's last volume at shutdown.
I have 10.2.5, but when I upgraded is was probably 10.2.1 or 10.2.2. Would that matter?
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: England | San Francisco
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I find the best way to 'mute' the startup sound is to plug a pair of headphones in.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New York, USA
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Originally posted by PeterClark2002:
I find the best way to 'mute' the startup sound is to plug a pair of headphones in.
Yeah, that's exactly what I do =P
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2003
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When I had soundsticks I changed the sound prefs to hardware speaker and muted it. then switched back to USB speaker and turned up the volume.
After that no more chime. Then I got some monsoons and heard the chime again and felt sad that I had turned it off all that time.
>>100th post!!!
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Baninated
Join Date: Mar 2003
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This is funny because I went into a G4 733 tower, when I had one, and actually ripped out a few wires and banged a small crescent wrench against the mobo, and the chime stopped completely. I had no idea what I was doing, yet I somehow was able to accomplish my goal. Strange but true.
(I sold the tower a few months later.)
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Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: E. Brunswick, NJ USA
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Maybe someone's got an applescript that can mute the vol on shutdown, then unmute during startup (after the chime would have played, obviously).
Any one?
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Baninated
Join Date: Mar 2003
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##Start AppleScript##
##Mute Volume on restart or shutdown##
If Logout proceeds to Reboot or Shutdown, tell Operating System "Mac OS X" to mute volume
##Unmute volume on boot##
On Startup, tell Application "Finder" to unmute Volume
##Extract payment for this AppleScript##
After Script is successful, tell Operating System "Mac OS X" to prompt for $creditcardnumber
If $creditcardnumber = 0, then Erase Hard Drive.
{else if $creditcardnumber = 1, then Charge $250.00}
end
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Last edited by Vi0; May 5, 2003 at 02:12 AM.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2002
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Is there away of seting the OS 9 volume
without booting into 9?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Teaneck, NJ
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I miss having this problem but somehow my speaker in my MDD G4 doesn't work anymore so I almost always have headphones plugged in
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Originally posted by theory:
Is there away of seting the OS 9 volume
without booting into 9?
The only thing I can think of if editing the sound preference file. I opened it with ResEdit but couldn't figure out what to do/change. If a program exists for editing preference files you might be able to do it that way.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cumbria, England
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I did a set of Applescripts for this for Mac OS 9, I've not done any Applescripting since I've been on X, just been mucking about with the Terminal. Give me a week and if I haven't got round to it, you have my permision to , er, remind me.
I WILL do this!
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Nae, there is no sog to be sug,
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