External Speakers - System Volume at Startup
I recently hooked external speakers up to my macbook, and I've been experiencing an annoying problem. Whenever I start or restart the macbook, the system volume turns itself down to 50 percent, i.e at the time I shut the macbook down, the system volume is up to max volume; I then restart and it turns down to 50 percent.
Any ideas on how I can get it to stay at 100 percent unless I turn it down manually -- the same way the internal speakers work -- or is this just a system quirk designed to protect my sensitive ears and/or speakers?
Macbook 2 GHz Processor Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB RAM Upgrade
Hi
You should be able to set the startup volume setting to whatever you like using MacOS X's Automator. The appropriate script is in the "System" category. Just modify it by putting the slider to the desired value. You don't have to save after the modification because it's a standard startup script that is used by MacOS X itself automatically after reboot.
Stefan
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