boot-up sound?

sam10685

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Mar 30, 2006

• #1

as classic as the mac boot-up sound is, (it's been with us since the '80s hasn't it?), i was wondering if i could change it to something i made. (i put the introduction part of 'In-a-gadda-da-vida' by Iron Butterfly into it's own file.)

 

calebjohnston

macrumors 68000

• Mar 30, 2006

• #2

No, I don't believe you can alter that file at all. It's made to tell you that hardware has passed inspection blahblahblah.

 

sam10685

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Mar 30, 2006

• #3

calebjohnston said:

No, I don't believe you can alter that file at all. It's made to tell you that hardware has passed inspection blahblahblah.

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didn't think it was editable... thank u though!

 

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steelfist

macrumors 6502a

• Mar 30, 2006

• #4

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12997

not sure if this is what you are looking for...

 

khisayruou

macrumors 6502a

• Mar 30, 2006

• #5

steelfist said:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12997

not sure if this is what you are looking for...

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You should read the reviews 😉
File is no longer there.

 

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trogdor!

macrumors regular

• Mar 30, 2006

• #6

Ive always wanted to change the boot sound for fun, but just isnt possible.

 

killmoms

macrumors 68040

• Apr 1, 2006

• #7

sam10685 said:

as classic as the mac boot-up sound is, (it's been with us since the '80s hasn't it?), i was wondering if i could change it to something i made. (i put the introduction part of 'In-a-gadda-da-vida' by Iron Butterfly into it's own file.)

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Just so you know, it has changed since the 80's. The one still on Macs now though appeared sometime in the 90's around the time of the first PowerMacs I believe. Download MacTracker—it's got every old Mac model listed, and includes the boot sounds for most of them!

As for the sound itself, yes, it's stored in the firmware (not anywhere on the HD) and thus you can't change it.

 

FocusAndEarnIt

macrumors 601

• Apr 1, 2006

• #8

Yep, not possible.
You technically could do it by hacking the firmware, couldn't you?

 

killmoms

macrumors 68040

• Apr 1, 2006

• #9

lilstewart92 said:

You technically could do it by hacking the firmware, couldn't you?

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I guess, but... good God. That's like... I dunno. I'm hard pressed to think of a good analogy. That's like getting heart surgery for cosmetic reasons, or something. 'Cause you don't like how your lub-dub sounds.

 

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Lacnce

macrumors member

• Apr 2, 2006

• #10

lilstewart92 said:

Yep, not possible.
You technically could do it by hacking the firmware, couldn't you?

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The firmware is probable "read only".
You could set whatever sound file you made to run on login.