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How to change start-up sound?

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mikenight

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Ey!

Is there any way to change the start-up sound of Lion? I found some articles on the net regarding how to disable it, but what I want is to change it and put another one.

Thanks!
 
From what I know, you can't change the startup sound. It is hard coded in the Mac and not with the software like Windows.

Hugh
 
Ok, thank you for the answers but I was asking in regard to change the sound.

Would it be possible to firsttly mute it with the method tyche posted before and then add a sound in the Lion's booting sequence?

thnx!
 
mikenight said:
Ok, thank you for the answers but I was asking in regard to change the sound.

Would it be possible to firsttly mute it with the method tyche posted before and then add a sound in the Lion's booting sequence?

thnx!
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You can't, unfortunately.

This was possible pre-OS X. You could have a QuickTime movie play during the startup sequence. But that hasn't been possible in a long time.
 
That startup 'bong' is the sound chip saying everything hardware wise in the sound system is working. So if you want to hack that chip you better know what you doing and have many years of OS X programming and hardware building experience.
 
satcomer said:
That startup 'bong' is the sound chip saying everything hardware wise in the sound system is working. So if you want to hack that chip you better know what you doing and have many years of OS X programming and hardware building experience.
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Not really. The start up chime is just some nostalgic branding from all the early macs that Apple likes to keep around.
 
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