2008/11/6 Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > At 10:14 AM -0800 11/5/2008, Tom wrote: >> >>This is a sudden sound that wakes up people sleeping in nearby >>bedrooms and irritates me as well. > > 1) You're booting that often? > > 2) Suppressing the BONG is, IMO, just NOT a good idea. That bong > indicates that the hardware self-test passed. If you suppress it, > then you won't hear any of the error chimes either -- so you'll have > no clue that things are dying. You'll just happily sit there and > corrupt your HD etc.
Error bongs stop bootup. You'd notice that, oh, I dunno, the machine wasn't booting, and you'd plug the speaker back up or whatever. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth > > > > -- -hackmiester --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
