disable start up sound

The best way I found to silence the GONG is to unplug your external speakers/headphones, and then use system preferences sound. In Sound, just mute the internal speakers and set the sound to zero. After that do a restart; you should not hear the GONG. After restarted, plug in your externals and set the volume to what you want, and then restart. This should solve the problelm.

hi i have a Imac mid 2010 & 2011 models so far mine doesn't do that GONG sound by following this easy steps:

1st unplug your speaker then go to System Preferences, Sound, Check the "MUTE" box then plug your speaker back. You will notice that the "MUTE" will automatically uncheck itself after that just restart your mac & there you go no more annoying GONG sound.

dude, you are a lifesaver!!! Thank you!!!

When you turn down volume at munu bar to minum level before shutdown, startup sound must be disable.

And you turn up volume at menu bar after startup, you can listen music by internal speaker.

To disable startup sound we have to turn down volume before shatdown or restart.

We cannot touch any sound control after shutdown. That is the problem.

I found a made in Japan free spplication "MuteCon for Mac OS" which works for Lion too.

http://homepage1.nifty.com/macbs/download.htm#MuteCon

Download this file at this site.

Procedures are written in Japanese, but you can easily understand.

http://tukaikta.blog135.fc2.com/blog-entry-172.html

After downloading, when you start this application, you can find it on the menu bar.

Click it on the menu bar to go preference.

Check box "volume control after boot" and ajust bar to maximum or middle.

Check box "volume control before exit" and ajust bar to minimum level that is mute.

Open system preference and click users & Groups.

Plus this application to login items.

1) Before shutdown sound volume automatically turn down and mute.

2) Startup sound disable

3) After sartup or restart sound volume automariccalu turn up to the level you ajusted.

These three procedures work automatically.

Try!

Thanks macjavaworld!

Downloaded "MuteCon for Mac OS" from the link you provided, and it works like a charm on a 2010 MBA 11" and on a 2011 MBA 13", both with Lion 10.7.2.

I am the person who reported in this thread to be using "Psst" a few months ago, but then it stopped working (well, it kinda worked randomly sometimes on the MBA 11", but it never worked again on the MBA 13"... Go figure, same OS, identical settings, etc). I am a happy camper again!

Now, if only it was possible to get rid of the icon in the menubar... (well, I prefer having the little icon there and no chime at all, than the contrary!)

All the best

This actually worked for med on my newly bought iMac and latest Lion.

Thnx a bunch !!

Sorry Guys!

I followed your first part of instructions and 'no chime'. Yay!

But then i followed your next instructions, plugged my externals back in, set my volume and restarted but that brought the chime back.

Do we have to unplug our externals, open system-sound preferences and make changes every single time we do a restart? Or, am I missing something?

Just to confirm "MuteCon" app did not work at all on the chime, for me.

Nearly there.....!

Just to add to last post!

I gave up trying to get the start up chime disabled and went about my normal business.

It is now the day after. My external speakers are plugged in and working. My volume is up and the mute box in system-sound preference pane is 'NOT' checked. Guess what - NO CHIME!

Last night after i tried the above instructions from Transplant1, the chime was back. So, I gave up!

***! Now its gone. Does this mean its gone for good or will a PRAM reset (or the like) bring it back again? I dont know that I did, but for now its not chiming. Yay!

Click it on the menu bar to go preference.

Check box "volume control after boot" and ajust bar to maximum or middle.

Check box "volume control before exit" and ajust bar to minimum level that is mute.

Open system preference and click users & Groups.

Plus this application to login items.

And "check the box"

If you install some other sound control applications,

"click 'MuteCon" and move to upper level than other sound control applications

installed in your login items."

If the level of "MuteCon" is lower, other sound control applications located

upper level are prior to "MuteCon"

1) Before shutdown sound volume automatically turn down and mute.

2) Startup sound disable

3) After sartup or restart sound volume automariccalu turn up to the level you ajusted.

Good luck !

Maybe i am a bit stupid but when i open Terminal and type in the first sudo nano /path/to/mute-on.sh and i enter this my system is asking for a pasword but i don't use a password.

When i enter three times i am in the beinning again and could start all over again.

Please can someone tell me what i am doing wrong.

Thanks

If you run a sudo command you have to enter the password of an Administrator accout. Well, I'm not sure if sudo is working without a password. Try to create a dummy admin account with a password and use that one to execute the sudo command.

Hope this helps.

Hello Acid

The solution with Mute Con works ok with me so i am not planning any changes via Terminal settings.

I want to thank you for your tip and wish everybody on this community Happy Christmas and a happy and very healthy 2012

Thanks a lot

choochoo

edited by thomasthetrain

Hey guys,

Again, Darren's method works well for my Macbook Air Lion 10.7.2. MyArcana Startupsound.prefPane Veresion 1.1 worked on my 2009 Snowleopard Macbook Pro, but always bounced back to its defalt setting when installed in Lion. Creating a root user and adjusting the setting when logged in completely solved the problem.

By the way, Startupsound.prefPane is very small and user-friendly software. One simple windon with minimal muting fuctions and that's it. No ads no updates and is free. It's great. I found the method easier than creating a terminal script file. Hope this helps!

Jehuda; to you and all the others that follow on this post trying to disable the start up chime, I have to tell you that that sound is also a diagnostic tool. If you DON'T hear it it indicates problems with the system. It can be related to ram memory, for example. It also suggests that the P Ram needs to be reset by holding Command, Option and letters P and R simultaneously until you hear TWO chimes.

Please keep in mind that some of the things you might find annoying are there for a reason and that to modify or disable them can bring on a host of problems down the road that you won't necessarily associate with this modification.

My two cents worth.