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Apr 13, 2012 9:54 PM in response to maximilian Jehuda Izchakby WATCHD0G,I installed StartNinja on my OSX Lion and once enabled it has now successfully muted my startup sound.
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May 18, 2012 3:30 PM in response to WATCHD0Gby bvkoski,I just installed StartNinja with my system completely up to date with Lion (10.7.4) as of 05.18.12.
And no, it doesn't work. Apple must have updated something to stop its effects since the last post
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Jun 22, 2012 8:18 PM in response to bvkoskiby Tiituli,Hello,
After my 2008 MacBook Pro was being repaired at a Mac repair office, the startup sound completely disappeard. What a joy it was!
(To me this looks like there must be a secret way to switch off the startup sound of the MacBook Pro under Lion.)
... But, then last week the main board was replaced (due to NVIDIA problems) in the same repair office. AND, the startup sound is there again! Oh, dear.
Now, I'm considering to open the Mac myself and cutting the wires off the internal speaker . Has anybody tried that?
Cheers,
Tiitu.
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Jun 22, 2012 8:48 PM in response to Tiituliby Tiituli,F I N A L L Y ! This is working incase of my 2008 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7.4:
http://download.cnet.com/Psst/3000-2344_4-54891.html?tag=vtredir
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Jun 22, 2012 9:04 PM in response to maximilian Jehuda Izchakby bvkoski,I'm on OS 10.7.4 Lion and on a late 2007 Mac Pro 8-core and someone else on these forums offered this solution a while back and it's worked for me.
Go to your System Preferences and choose "Sound" - click on the middle tab on the top "Output", select "Internal Speakers" within the window, then click the checkmark for the "Mute" next to the "Output Volume" on the bottom right.
I use external speakers for the rest of my system, music, etc., and only turn on the speakers after I've turned the Mac on. No startup chime.
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Jun 23, 2012 4:17 AM in response to Tiituliby gortdromagh,If you have a MacBook Pro why don't you just put it to sleep by closing the lid? Generally my MacBook Pro and any other laptops I've owned are only restarted once in a blue moon if there is a kernel panic or if some hardware needs replacing. Onyx will clear out any caches that build up.
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Jun 23, 2012 5:14 AM in response to Acidby Dawnature,Hi,
When i try and do step 2, i copy and pasted what you typed, it gives me a warning and tells me to type in password but doesnt allow me to typ it....
I would appreciate and suggestions.Thanks,
Zo
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Jun 23, 2012 10:18 AM in response to bvkoskiby bvkoski,I posted earlier:
I'm on OS 10.7.4 Lion and on a late 2007 Mac Pro 8-core and someone else on these forums offered this solution a while back and it's worked for me.
Go to your System Preferences and choose "Sound" - click on the middle tab on the top "Output", select "Internal Speakers" within the window, then click the checkmark for the "Mute" next to the "Output Volume" on the bottom right.
I use external speakers for the rest of my system, music, etc., and only turn on the speakers after I've turned the Mac on. No startup chime.
Addition:
Make sure when you're in the Output tab after applying mute to the Internal speakers, that if you are indeed using external speakers, that you then click on the line below that says "line out / audio line out port" to make sure that is active.
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Jun 23, 2012 12:19 PM in response to bvkoskiby JMK100,As far as I know it always worked that way on a Mac Pro. More difficult situation is on MacBook Pro, where most of the people use internal speakers for normal operation.
I have a MacPro IntelCore2Duo, 2.33GH with the latest Lion.
Nothing worked to this point, but yesterday I installed Psst (it's a 2007 application, but it works with Lion). After installing it, the start-up sound is GONE, and all sound controls work as they should.
It may not work on some systems, but try that.
Cheers,
Jack
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Jun 23, 2012 1:57 PM in response to JMK100by bvkoski,Jack, good point about my suggestion for the sound settings when using external speakers versus the no solutions yet situation for sound setting when in the no-choice-but-to-use-internal-speakers on the MacBooks. Thanks for the tip about Psst.
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Aug 14, 2012 4:18 PM in response to Acidby stanleyoowa,This script does not work for my 27" mid 2011 iMac
Why??
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Aug 25, 2012 5:01 AM in response to maximilian Jehuda Izchakby Mick_M,First off, it's so darn annoying that Apple haven't addressed this issue in all these years!
I have been using StartupSound.prefPane 1.1b3 (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/16425/startupsound.prefpane) on my mid-2010 17" MacBook Pro and other Macs for eons. I upgraded to mountain lion and it didn't work anymore. I simply redownloaded and used the uninstaller and then reinstalled it and it was all good again :-).
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Sep 22, 2012 4:59 PM in response to andressadeby DerbyD,If you have headphones connected to your Imac but still hearing annoying startup sound, try following steps:
1. open "System preferences", Sound and "Output" tab
2. Unplug your headphones and watch "select a device for output" list
3. After a while there should be appearing "Internal Speakers"
4. Check "mute" checkbox from bottom
5. Plug your headphones back, mute checkbox shold change back to unchecked
now startup sound should be muted
This is the one that worked for me. Thanks, andressade.
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Sep 23, 2012 3:29 AM in response to andressadeby Tiituli,Works well in my late 2008 MacBook (when you don't need to hear the loadspeakers). Thank you adressade!
Psst did do the same well too, but sometimes it was stopped (I don't know why) and had to be restarted manually.