Continuous startup sound

After starting our MacPro the startup sound continues over & over again.
To stop it we must switch off the power & restart again.
Is this a symptom of rising doom?
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Kalle Freynik
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Try to unplug any other harddrives, that might couse this problem. If The Chime still going over and over again.
Try to disconnect any other hardware and see if there might be a faulty hardware, or perhaps broken.
Otherways read this,http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2341?viewlocale=en_US

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I have a Macbook Pro A1226 .
When I push the power key , the Startup sound heard continuously , but ther is no picture on the screen . help me to solve this problem.

I am having the same issue.
When I try to start my Macbook Pro, I get an endless loop (well at least 5 minutes before I give up and power it down) of the start up chime. It just keeps repeating over and over. THe screen stays black and never lights up. THe chime varies a slight bit, occasionally sounding like it cuts out half way before it finishes, but then a full chime will happen again.
I have tried the PRAM zap, Systems Management Controller reset (disconnect power and battery, hold down power button for 5 sec, reconnect to power and try again, as well as the Cmd-Option-Power hold down that is recommended for the newer Macbook Pros), tried safe start up (holding shift) even tried to boot in Target disk mode just to see if I could get info from the hard drive.
I have tried reseating the ram.
I have tried it with only battery (which does seem to be charging fine), with only ac power, with both.
Not sure if it anything but When it is plugged in and the battery is fully charged, the green light goes out on the charger and no light comes on.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Hi,
This issue also can be caused by Sound Card Driver, please also try to reinstall it for test.
In addition, please also check Event Viewer if it identify this problem.
Roger Lu
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Hello,
The following table lists the new tones and their meaning:
Tone(s)    Description
1 tone, a 5-second pause, repeat    No RAM installed
3 successive tones, a 5-second pause, 3 successive tones    RAM does not pass data integrity check
1 long tone when holding down the power button    Firmware upgrade in process. See About firmware updates for Intel-based Macs for more details.
3 long tones, 3 short tones, 3 long tones    Firmware restoration from CD in process. See About the Firmware Restoration CD (Intel-based Macs) for more details.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2538

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Hey there Apple forums!
I decided to install Windows 7 on my Mac a while ago. I had Bootcamp 3.0 and all the problems related to audio that BT 3.0 had, including the red optical light. Once BT 3.1 was released, I decided to install it. Notice how I hadn't changed any driver from Bt 3.0 until I installed 3.1.
Once I installed the update, most audio problems were immediately solved. No more ghostly red optical light, no more laggy audio, etc. Audio output was still low, but nothing "Enchance audio output" couldn't solve. I was seemingly happy, until i realized that the windows 7 startup sound played no more.
By startup sound I mean the chime that plays when you're in the login screen. This is a very small glitch, as it used to work in Bt 3.0, even with the audio issues it had.
Is there any solution? And before you begin asking protocol questions, yes, the startup sound IS enabled, yes I have the default Windows sounds set, I haven't changed the theme (don't know if that even matters, it shouldn't matter).
If it helps, when i connect two low speakers to the audio output jack and start Windows, and raise the volume, I CAN hear the startup chime in the login screen. But there's not even a faint sound when the external speakers are gone.
Should anyone know a solution, please help me with a post. And the speakers I have suck, so they're not an option.

Hi
Had same problem, tried everything like reinstalling drivers but still the problem continued. However today i tried changing the driver for the sound card to the generic driver and rebooted my macbook pro. on startup the sound card would not work on the generic driver and the system kicked in with an automatic troubleshoot and installed the correct drivers.
Somehow this has enabled the startup sound to work and the system doesn't startup in a muted state.
Haven't a clue why or how this has worked or how long it will continue to work but give it a go.

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Hey there Rolf,
Resetting your PRAM should return your startup chime on the computer. This article will walk you through doing that on Mac OS X Yosemite:
OS X Yosemite: Reset your computer’s PRAM
Resetting PRAM may change some system settings and preferences. Use System Preferences to restore your settings.
Important: To print these instructions, click the Share button in the Help window, then choose Print.
Choose Apple menu > Shut Down.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Option, Command (⌘), P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on your Mac.
Immediately press and hold the Option-Command-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Continue holding the keys down until your Mac restarts, and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.
After resetting your computer’s PRAM, you may need to update your speaker volume, display resolution, and startup disk preferences. For more information about PRAM, see the Apple Support article About NVRAM and PRAM.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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Startup sound too loud

I own a macbook pro 15" bought on may 2011, working with Snow Leopard OS. It worked very well until it presented troubles with startup sound which suddenly completely disappeared. I cleared this reseting PRAM / NVRAM as explained in the Apple Support.
Since then, another trouble appeared : startup sound reverted to a maximum level.
I have tried many solutions unsuccessfully :
- Lowering sound level, even to mute, before shutdown : no effect.
- Starting my Mac with a connected headphone : no effect. The sound continued being emitted by the build-in speakers
- Putting a toothpick in the headphone socket to eventually resetting anything wrong : no effect
- Putting to the trash "com.apple.audio.SystemSettings.plist" and "com.apple.systemsound.plist" files and restarting my computer : no effect
- changing settings in the "Sound > out" category in the Pref Panel : no effect
- Reseting PRAM and NVRAM again : no effect
- Reseting SCM as explained in the Apple Support : no effect, startup sound is still to the maximum level.
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I have downloaded and installed startupsound.prefpane. It seemed to have no consequence on my issue. I then thought that, maybe, putting "com.apple.audio.SystemSettings.plist" and "com.apple.systemsound.plist" files from MacHD>Library>preferences>audio to the trash again could solve it. I did so and also added 2 "sound preferences files" from the "MacHD>Library>preferences" directory.
I then restarted my computer and "God saved me!" : it worked!
However, making some tests, changing sound level before restarting : no effect! Startup sound is still at its minimum and nothing make it change!
Uninstalling Startupsound.prefpane has even no influence on it.
I am just... desappointed
I just can't understand.
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no problem:
before going deep, some points here:
I own about 13 Apple Devices since almost 7 years and my country is the first where Apple has the most OS market share:
http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/03/16/the-10-most-mac-friendly-countries-on-the-pl anet/
Also, I have about 50 "close" friends that have Mac OS products (imacs, MacBook, Air...)
I never, ever had a recovery problems in 7 years and that's why I buy Apple products.I never, ever heard a friend, in my country or in another that was stuck because of the start sound. (i already have had a friend that have to replace it, but starting sound was not necessary on this case).Here 4 situations with a MacBook Air:
You try to start the Mac, nothing happen, even if the sound would work. In this case, battery was completly down. So you plug it, wait 3 mn and start it. What would be the use of the sound here? Should they not "spare" some battery just to make the sound work? No I do not think so.
You try to start the Mac, you disabled the sound and nothing happen. You bring it to Apple and they discover that your screen is dead. What would be the use of the sound here?
You try to start the Mac, you disabled the sound and nothing happen. You bring it to Apple and they discover that your processor is dead. What would be the use of the sound here?
You try to start the Mac, you disabled the sound and nothing happen. You bring it to Apple and they discover that you could repaired the problem if the starting sound could be heared. But you just putted on mute before the last shutdown. (so why not make the sound work, even though you putted on mute on this case?)
Seeing your "level" and points, I am pretty sure you will come with many counter arguments and I do not really care about them frankly.
My point is, after 7 years using Apple products, I am more than happy to have them and I will continue to buy them because they are so amazing, it never appear to me that I need this starting sound that causes me more trouble when i start it and my wife or kids are sleeping not too far, trying everytime to put me far away and try to hide the Air under pillows when I start it.
Frankly, if that's going to happen to me in the next 7 years, I would be more than happy to go to my Apple store and bring them back to their specialists and hear I was a bad boy, i should not have disabled the sound. I will not care 1 second trying to fix it myself if I do not see how to fix it. And I will return home, with new Apple products I would have buyed in the meantime.
My turn to ask you a question, if your car tomorrow does not start (you do not hear the starting sound ;-)), are you going to try to remove the motor and see if perhaps you can do something yourself?
If you are a mecanics, maybe, if no, I doubt.
If there so many threads about this and some software build around this, it means there is something about it.
I guess you are going to defend your point telling other things...
If that happen to me, I am sure Apple guys will fix it. That's my ultimate solution. Period.

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Hello,
I'm a student studying abroad right now in Senegal, part of Sub-saharan Africa (which might help for later on).
My iBook won't turn on past the startup apple noise (the daaaaauummm). When I press the power button it makes that noise, along with a minimal amount of internal processor noise, and then nothing past that. The internal noise basically stops, and nothing comes up on the monitor. This problem started yesterday--I was using my computer and then the screen started to go fuzzy and get static and then it just went blank. Although I said that I don't get anything past the startup noise, I think my computer is still on (even though it isn't doing anything) because if I want to get the startup noise again I have to force shutdown the computer (hold down the power button for 10 seconds). Furthermore, when I do get the startup noise, the lighted ring around where the power adapter plugs in goes from orange to yellow and stays yellow for a bit. However, no light illuminates around the power button on the computer.
At first I thought maybe there was a problem with my monitor. I followed two of Apple's troubleshooting steps, resetting my parameter RAM (I think holding control command P and R) as well as resetting my computer's PMU (shift control option and power button) and for both of those, I managed to actually get something on my screen--the apple with the gear around it popped up and stayed there, but then after about 3 seconds it got the same staticky and lines and then went black again. When I tried to replicate this by doing the exact same thing (for both solutions) I was not able to get past the startup sound (ie the screen stayed blank) and it was back to square one.
Basically, I'm stumped. There are power cuts here in Senegal, along with subsequent power surges when the power comes back on, which lead my Dad to think that maybe my motherboard got fried. However, there is a power adapter on the cord which should block against that. Furthermore, that won't explain why the laptop was working right before it fritzed out on me, even though it was not plugged in. I'm thinking that maybe there might be a bug in my computer (like a physical one that crawled in). I am thinking this because there are bugs that crawl around my computer and under my keys (it's not as gross as it sounds--well actually I guess it is...) and furthermore I was out of town this past weekend so my computer was sitting idly in my room. Could it be that a bug actually made it deeper into my computer? But also, that still wouldn't explain why I was able to make it work on Monday.
I will be here in Senegal for 3 more weeks, but I would like to use my computer before then. Is there anything I can try to fix myself here, or will I have to wait until I get back to the states. Is there anyway for me to al least get some of the stuff off of my harddrive--that's all I really care about? Obviously, there isn't an apple store here in Dakar, Senegal, for me to take it to--although there are a few computer places but it seems like Apples aren't too popular here, and so I'm not sure how effective/knowledgeable they'd be with a Mac. Plus I'd have to explain all of this in French, which wouldn't necessarily be the easiest thing.
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Chris
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Hi, Chris. Welcome to Apple Discussions.
It sounds like you may be having logic board problems. Enough Dual USB G3 iBooks suffered from this problem that Apple began the iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program in January of 2004. Check out the FAQ page and if the symptoms look familiar, give Apple a call.
Since it is past the three-year time limit, try calling and ask for Customer Relations (NOT Customer Service--they can't help you) and ask them to please make an exception to the three-year limit in your case.
You may want to consider trying the shim fix suggested by John Sawyer elsewhere here in the Displays Forum:
[Y]ou can often fix this yourself by removing the iBook's bottom housing, and placing a shim of any sort, about 1mm to 1.5mm thick, onto the raised square on the bottom shield. I use a Scotch mounting square--you can get them in hardware stores and many grocery stores. When you reinstall the bottom case, it will press against this shim, which will press against the graphics chip, and may allow the chip to come into better contact with the logic board.
John Sawyer
CJS Macintosh Repair
Instructions for removing the lower case:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/50.5.0.html
Once you get it fixed, try never to pick it up by the left front corner alone. Rumor has it that can contribute to logic board failure when the case flexes, causing the graphics chip to come loose from the logic board. If you're picking it up in your left hand (as I often do mine), pick it up in the center under the trackpad.
Good luck. Let us know how things go.

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I was about to buy a new computer but I need access to my data on this one (I write this on an iPad) but hven't yet found a way.
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Hello,
I have a MacBook Pro 2012 mid 13" and some time ago I noticed, that startup sound was gone. I googled a little bit and saw that resetting PRAM should solve the problem. It did. But after a few days startup sound was gone again. So I reseted PRAM once again, and it fixed the problem. Now the sound is gone again and I'm tired of reseting PRAM, I'm pretty sure that's not how it should be. Does anyone have any idea what's the problem here? Maybe that's a sign that I need to change my RAM? :s

Stupid me, the sound was muted, so there was no startup sound everytime. I just restarted my macbook with volume up and now it works perfectly. Problem solved.

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The start up sound is there for specific reasons, for example if you do a Safe Boot or PRAM reset you need the start up sound to do those key functions. I would recommend against masking it and follow Apple's suggestions. Please read your owners manual, where Apple states:
Putting Your iMac to Sleep
If you‘ll be away from your iMac for less than a few days, put it to sleep. When your iMac is in sleep, its screen is dark. You can quickly wake your iMac and bypass the startup process.
This means don't turn it off, my iMac is about 5 years old now. The only time it's restarted is when I'm doing updates, it has reliably that way and has never given me any problems. In short, let it sleep when it's not being used.

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You don't. You may find some third-party software that will, however. Try Auto Mute.
Alternatively, you can try this:
I think this is the best and simplest solution. Open a Terminal window and type (or copy/paste) the following to turn down the startup noise:
sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume="%00"
Press RETURN.
And to restore it to the original value type:
sudo nvram -d SystemAudioVolume
Press RETURN.
That's all folks.

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