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Is it possible to turn off the start up sound? my external speakers are always turned to minimum but the sound is always the same volume on start up, would like to turn it off, any ideas?
 
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thanks quin, sorted
 
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what type of mac do you have?
Mine starts up with the volume I leave it at when it is shut down without any third party applications
 
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You do know that "startup sound" has a purpose, right?
 
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You do know that "startup sound" has a purpose, right?

No, I've only been using the Mac for 3 months. Please give us the heads up. Thanks
 
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The startup chime you hear is the machine telling you that it has passed it's initial boot-up hardware checks and that all is well. If you start it and don't hear that sound, it means you have a hardware issue. Windows boxes often beep at you, but a Mac gives you a chime instead.

Turning it off removes your ability to tell if you Mac has any hardware issues upon boot up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chime_(Macintosh)
 
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I agree with baggss on this issue.
 

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I also agree that the POST chime should be left on, however, with the Arcana preference pane you can easily turn the sound down to a lower level without eliminating it altogether.

Regards.
 

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Of course, if you're like a whole bunch of us out here, that chime doesn't do a lot of good anyway because we never shut our machines down except for new updates that require it.
 
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Of course, if you're like a whole bunch of us out here, that chime doesn't do a lot of good anyway because we never shut our machines down except for new updates that require it.

Now that I can agree with. ;)
 
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You do know that "startup sound" has a purpose, right?

To let everyone at the library know you have a Mac. This way everyone can be jealous, and admire the fact you have a better machine.
Right up to the point where you realize the 18 year old freshman hottie has a MacbookPro 17" with twice as much RAM and a bigger, faster hard drive.

From there on, I turn the volume down before I shut it off.
 

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