Hi Martin, Yes you are dead right and your suggestion fixed the problem. I must have accidentally muted the sound at startup and my iMac has remembered that ever since. So just after pressing the start button I pressed the mute button which would have unmuted sound and presto the startup chord returned. My iMac has now remembered this so the startup chord now survives power off / power on. Many thanks for the tip.. Best regards.....
Paul Hopewell On 6 Feb 2012, at 14:26, Martin McCormick wrote: > If it is otherwise working fine, you might try hitting > the Volume up and or mute buttons at the top of the number pad > during the time it should be playing this chord to see if you > might have accidentally muted it or turned it down. At least on > some Mac versions such as the Mac Pro, Voiceover remembers > different audio settings for the startup sequence than it does > when it finishes starting up and you have your desktop. > > If, for example, you had gotten the startup audio > somehow routed to the bluetooth device, muted or turned all the > way down, you might not hear anything at all until your desktop > starts. > > One good thing is that it is almost surely a software > configuration issue since it is consistent. > > I discovered this accidentally one day on a Mac Pro. > This particular Mac has a tiny internal speaker that plays the > startup music and any voiceover speech that occurs when the > system has no users actually logged in. It was too faint to > understand VO so I pressed the Volume Up key on the number pad > with the idea of turning it back down when the speakers came on. > The internal speaker got louder but this didn't change the > main speaker volume when it finished booting and the desktop came on. > The system remembers this new setting over reboots, power downs, > etc so if one were to turn it all the way down, you would still > have a working desktop with VO, but no startup music nor > Voiceover when it wasn't you that was logged in. Basically, each > mode of operation has its own sound profile that the Mac appears > to store in some non-volatile way such as a file it always saves > or maybe non-volatile memory, but it tries to remember how your > sound and Voiceover were set even after an upgrade. > > So, when your Mac is booting or you were to log out of > your session, a different sound profile rules until you are back in > your desktop again. > > Martin > > Paul Hopewell writes: >> Hello, >> For some time my iMac has stopped playing the chord it used to play >> shortly after being switched on. I had hoped that upgrading to Lion >> 10.7.3 would fix this but alas not. Any ideas on how I can restore that >> useful chord? >> Many thanks. >> >> Paul Hopewell >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >> at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by >> visiting the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >> >> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
