Sound Before Strtup

[OldManJimbo]

Questions like this should be filed in a new folder titled - Too Much Time on My Hands.

I agree - the BONG is one thing makes a Mac a Mac - I love the looks of envy when I power up in a roomful of PC users.

 

[imacintel]

Questions like this should be filed in a new folder titled - Too Much Time on My Hands.

I agree - the BONG is one thing makes a Mac a Mac - I love the looks of envy when I power up in a roomful of PC users.

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Thanks you guys. It is what makes a mac a mac

 

[MajereXYU]

Psst!


EDIT: Try THIS instead because the latest (universal) version does not seem to be on the official website yet.

 

[mcmillan]

There must be a way. Otherwise how did the World's Longest Start-up Sound guy achieved his record?

 

[Nickygoat]

As the others have said it's there for a reason.
If you really want to do it there are 2 other apps:
Detour will let you change the volume of any app on a specific basis, and route the sound to a specific source eg. iTunes through an external speaker set, iChat through internals at a lower volume. Not sure how well it works on Tiger though.
StartupSound.prefPane will just mute the chime for you.

I was told that by holding the mute button on the keyboard during startup mutes it, but it didn't work on my BT keyboard.

BT keyboards take a little time to pair with the system (ie, the system has to boot first, then enable BT, then pair) so all the startup keyboard commands (Open Firmware, Safe Mode, Target Mode etc) don't work with a BT keyboard. If you want those you've got to plug in a USB keyboard.

 

[EricNau]

BT keyboards take a little time to pair with the system (ie, the system has to boot first, then enable BT, then pair) so all the startup keyboard commands (Open Firmware, Safe Mode, Target Mode etc) don't work with a BT keyboard. If you want those you've got to plug in a USB keyboard.

Target Disk Mode works fine, and I know holding down "C" to boot from a Disk works, but I haven't tried any others.
...The only one that hasn't worked so far is the mute button, but that comes before anything else in the boot sequence.
I'm curious if it does work at all though.