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on Sat, May 21, 2005 at 12:41:35PM +0800, Christian Kotz wrote:
> It indicates the results of the Mac's Power On Self Test, the bong
> means she's all good. Probably Tiger's done something to your BIOS/ROM
> as that chime is an instruction in the ROM. It's a bit of a concern,
> what else has it altered?

The chime can be silenced by muting your audio volume (or, at least,
it could in the past --- although I've somehow developed the impression
this is not effective with Panther and newer Macs). Perhaps Tiger always
mutes the audio volume on shutdown for some reason?