How do you MUTE the starting sound?

Did anyone successfully mute their Apple starting sound for their iBook?
Besides muting the volume before you turn off the apple, I like to find out other method in muting the starting sound.


How to? Freeware?

Well since there seems to be no way to change it, I guess there's no way to mute / turn it off either, except the way you described.

It's probably built into the mac's Bios-equivalent (sorry, but I'm still a newbie!) which would have to be modified, which sounds difficult.../impossible..

why do you want to mute it? just curious.

yea i wanna do that too, its not good if i want to be a bit discreet whilst starting up my laptop. unfortunately, the only thing that can be done is just plug a headphone into the slot to stop the noise coming outta the speakers.

I did not think you could turn down the speakers before you shutdown and then it would not make the startup sound... does it work if you have multiple users?

It is a good thing to hear the startup chime when your computer comes up. If you don't hear the normal chime. You know right off the bat that something is wrong. I know there is different sounds for the different problems the computer might find on start up. An example would be missing memory.

But to answer the question. As far as I know if you turn down the master volume, you will not heard the startup chime. That is what I do if, I don't want to disturb my wife.

I don't mind the startup sound but I wish I could change it.

There is a little tool that lets you control the volume of the startup sound, and even mute it:

http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~arcana/index.en.html

It's a preference pane that's added to the system preferences, and works fine on my PowerMac.

But like some others said before, I wouldn't turn it off completely, as it is sort of a health indicator at startup.
I do understand though that, with a laptop, it can be annoying to people around you, especially when the sounds comes at full plast, in the middle of a library

Ditto.

Avalon said:

I do understand though that, with a laptop, it can be annoying to people around you, especially when the sounds comes at full plast, in the middle of a library

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