Startup Sound gone forever?

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Startup Sound gone forever?

It's funny how you sometimes only miss things once they're gone forever... I've been using the 3rd-party "Startup Sound preference panel" to disable or lower the volume of my iMac's startup sound.

Now, under Snow Leopard, it seems the application no longer works and I can't get my startup sound back. I've tried uninstalling (which requires Rosetta to be installed first) and then reinstalling, but no matter how many times I reboot my iMac, I don't get that Apple chime.

Any suggestions?

iMac 24" 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6), Macbook 2.4GHz, Apple TV, iPhone 3G, Mac Mini, AEBS (plus 2 x AX)

Posted on Sep 2, 2009 11:26 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 3, 2009 2:07 AM in response to m0thr4

I am the opposite. I am trying to get rid of this stupid chime.

I also have the startupsound.prefpane installed but no matter what I do the chime is too LOUD.

Apple why can't we have a built in adjustment for this.

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Answer 2

Sep 3, 2009 2:10 AM in response to m0thr4

Turn up the volume and make sure your speakers are not muted. Your third party sound program is the problem.

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Answer 3

Woz2024

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Sep 3, 2009 6:06 AM in response to m0thr4

Turn on your system while holding down Command + Option + P + R.

I really hope this thing will continue to work with SL. I'm holding out upgrading my ProBook until a few handy apps (Growl etc) get certified for it.

The great thing about the Mac Pro (workstation) is you can actually control the startup sound using the normal volume controls. You just turn down the internal speaker and set line out to something else. It always uses the internal for the startup sound. Wouldn't hurt to have an option to kill it on all computers.

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Woz2024

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Sep 3, 2009 8:54 PM in response to Woz2024

I should add, I just tested Startup Sound 1.1 beta 2 on SL 10.6.0 on my Mac Pro and it worked fine. Download from http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~arcana/StartupSound/download/StartupSoundPrefPane11b 2.dmg This version is Universal so no need for Rosetta.

As for uninstalling the old version first, I guess your best bet would be to Control+Click (right click doesn't seem to work reliably here) on the Startup Sound icon in the main page of System Preferences and click Remove.

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m0thr4 Author

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Sep 6, 2009 4:29 AM in response to Woz2024

Woz2024 wrote:
I should add, I just tested Startup Sound 1.1 beta 2 on SL 10.6.0 on my Mac Pro and it worked fine. Download from http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~arcana/StartupSound/download/StartupSoundPrefPane11b 2.dmg This version is Universal so no need for Rosetta.

Yes, the app installs fine without Rosetta, but the "uninstaller" that comes with it does require Rosetta to be installed.

Simply removing it from System Preferences may not necessarily remove everything, so if an uninstaller is supplied, I will usually run that.

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m0thr4 Author

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Sep 16, 2009 5:23 AM in response to m0thr4

I found that by re-installing the app again and playing around with the settings (turning the volume up/down) I was able to get my Mac chiming again.

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ngyy

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Sep 16, 2009 8:16 AM in response to m0thr4

Hi all, i think i have the same kind of problem.

I lost the startup chime after uninstalling StartupSound.prefPane with AppCleaner. I thought it will restore it after ungrading to snow leopard, but no. still no startup chime. Resetting PRAM also doesn't work at all.

Any help would be great!

ngyy

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