Startup noise has vanished - patch?

[DisplacedMic]

Hi guys - i recently updated my 2.4 ghz leopard macbook and i've noticed that it no longer makes the recognizable double-tone high pitch machine noise when booting up, coming out of standby or loading up vmw fusion.

Just out of curiosity - what happened? everything is running normally and from what i can tell nothing has changed.

 

[spinnerlys]

The noise you refer to is the MacBook checking the DVD drive for any inserted optical media. So maybe the update (system or what?) has also changed that behaviour.

 

[NewMacbookPlz]

There was an EFI update followed by a SuperDrive firmware update recently that would make the machines no longer run the optical drive check at every powerup/wake cycle.

 

[DisplacedMic]

i see - well that makes perfect sense. while i had grown accustomed to that noise - i imagine stopping unnecessary checks/movement/noise etc can't be a bad thing.

thanks guys!