My BOING is back. I zapped the PRAM by holding down the apple+option+P+R keys at start up and waiting for 3 boings and now all is well again. Perhaps I should have done that after upgrading to 10.4.1. Lloyd
> James Devenish wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> 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? >> >> > Hi > > Having speakers or amps plugged into the audio port that are turned off > or down will do it too. > > Bad RAM did it on my B&W G3 once and badly configured IDE devices too. > > Good luck > Paul
