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I think the booting chime is the same as the volume level in OS X. If you mute the volume in OS X before it was erased, it might have disabled the boot "chime".
 
Yupp, that's what I did.

But i had to wipre PRAM and NVRAm becasue of the bluetooth problems and it came on.
 
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