#MAC OS POWER CHIME SOFTWARE#
The boot order tells the machine which devices to search for the software needed to launch the computer and the priority each device in that search. That’s because the BIOS settings include the boot sequence the machine follows when starting up.
#MAC OS POWER CHIME PC#
But I never have the patience to look online for something that I want immediately.Īnyway, you could try booting into 9 natively and see what it says your volume setting is, and see if changing that affects your boot chime sound level.Starting your PC using USB rescue media is not difficult, although it first requires an adjustment in the BIOS (Basic Input Output System). In other words, the fact that your computer is remembering mute probably means that the battery is OK.ġ/2 AA batteries can be found at Radio Shack, and I think their $15 price is a giant rip-off. If the battery goes out then the audio setting should revert to PRAM reset state. I've had no startup chime for a while, but it's only an audio setting. I think the problem is that you have the sound level on the HD set to something normal, and the sound level set in PRAM set to 0. So you'll get different behaviour from early boot than you will from a fully loaded OS.
#MAC OS POWER CHIME MAC OS#
Now Mac OS X, and maybe some new world machines on 9 run the OS level sound, monitor settings, mouse speed, etc from settings on the HD. Stands to reason since the startup chime sounds well before the computer tries to actually read data from the HD. This is the setting that is used to determine how loud to make the startup chime. Mac OS 8 and maybe up to 9 I don't recall clearly, stored it's sound level in PRAM. Thanks for all of the responses (is that even a word?)I am still a couple of months away from a shiny G4 and I'm hoping I can hold out long enough for the next revision whether its a G5 or at least a non wind-tunnel G4.
That is definitely a good thing to check,but my alert volume is all the way up.I even turned up the user interface effects in case that was the problem. You can also get them at Radio Shack,which is where I got the last one.They are around $5 to $10 usually.If your date and time go screwy after a power cut it is a good bet the battery is dead or dying.at least that used to be one of the tell tales.Date&Time,Network settings,start-up disk I think these are all things that tend to get messed up with a bad battery. Here is a place that sells them with a downloadable guide: I do have it plugged into a BelkinUPS,and I don't feel comfortable plugging straight into the wall.I guess losing the chime is a small price to pay for power security.The power is real dirty here(spikes & brownouts).I wondered about that when I read at Apples tech info list that the G3 motherboard requires a 5volt trickle in order to start.Luckily it still starts just no chime. Hopefully it will hold on long enough for me to get a new box,which I hope will be a G5
Replaced Mouse and keyboard,battery,and bought a pci USB card,strangely enough I still get the same behavior when using the PCI USB.I think the mother board has problems,but I always expect the worse.
I am worried there is a deeper problem here because about a year ago the on board USB ports stopped working reliably.I had nothing but the original keyboard and mouse plugged in,and frequently on start up the system refused to recognize the mouse or KB.Sometimes it would take a restart to fix it and other times a simple unplug/re-plug would work.Same behavior when starting from a CD. I replaced the original battery with one from Radio shack about 7 months ago. After being off all night there is again no start-up chime.I don't mind replacing the battery again,but can anyone think of anything else that might cause this or cause a battery to last less than a year?
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