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question about boot up sound
- Thread starter jetjaguar
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The normal way to get the boot sound muted is if you mute your machine before restarting it. Is your sound muted on your laptop?
If it's not the sound level, reset the PRAM (which will reset the volume, but you'll be able to know if it's an actual issue or not).
If you can't hear the chime, you should be able to recognize the optical drive sound or hard drive sound, or fan resetting in your computer as it boots up. What until you hear them a second time then release. 3 times is OK, 4 or more is getting into the potentially damaging range (though I've never had an issue before, you're just not supposed to).
However, you should hear the chime kick in during the process if it isn't another issue.
Are you sure that the sound isn't just very low. I have my sound set to 2 bars and I can just barely hear the startup sound. This is under Snow Leopard. In the past Apple used to have the startup sound the same volume regardless of the volume you set your computer to but I'm glad that Apple has now made the startup sound adjust according to how loud we set the volume. I now always know when I left my volume too loud on shut down because the startup sound is very loud when I do so.
