Is It Possible To Mute The Startup Chime ?

On my other computers (G3 iMac + G4 eMac), simply putting a 3.5mm plug (connected to speakers or not) into the headphone socket is sufficient to silence the startup chimes.
To my surprise, this doesn't work with my new iMac. It seems that the chimes are now separate from the normal audio system.
Is it possible to mute them ?

SORRY ! Once again I posted without doing a search !
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How can I turn off the startup chime on my new iMAC (Intel based)?

Hi,
Every time I turn on my iMac the startup chime is very loud. It doesn't matter whether I lower or mute the volume prior to shutting it down, the startup chime volume is unpredictable. Is there any way possible to control it without having to download a third party program?
Thanks!

Thank you for your response.
I seem to get a lot of conflicting information whether you should shut down a computer at night or simply put it to sleep. However, that is another discusssion
As to the startup chime, ideally I would like to be able to control the volume at least (not mute it). I will still be able to hear the chime when the iMac starts up, but right now it sounds like a church bell going off in my apartment whenever I turn on the computer!

How can I turn off the startup chime?

The chime sounds from the internal speakers at full blast no matter what volume I have set the computer to. Is there any way to turn this off or at least quiet it? It keeps waking my baby up, even when she's sleeping upstairs!

Julia,
I have used the System Preference pane that Neil recommended for over a year successfully. It is good to hear the startup chime, even at a much lower volume, because it lets you know that your Mac has passed the built-in Power On Self Test.
I'm sure that mr fish didn't mean for his post to be as condescending as it seems. You know, telling a woman where her mute key is located! He is new here in the Intel discussions and has been having issues fitting in. He recently learned how to color the text of his posts and isn't aware of how childish and distracting they have become. But he is coming along and is a welcome new personality here in Using Your Intel-based iMac.
But, mr. fish aside, the tip he gave you about muting your Mac before turning it off should work! So the fact that you report that it doesn't, leads me to believe that there may be some maintenance issues with your new Mac. I want to give you the link to the X Labs. Dr. Smoke, the author, is a long-time, regular contributor here in the Apple Discussions and he has put together a great site that explains well how to keep a Mac & Mac OS X running in good condition. When you have time you can check it out and see if there are some things that you could be doing that will keep things running smoothly.
Something that will help folks here in the forum when you ask for advice is if you go to your Profile and expand a bit about your Mac; model, OS X version, amount of RAM, etc.

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How do I mute the startup sound on my imac

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.

Why is the startup chime so loud on my iMac?

I just bought it yesterday from the Apple store, so it's brand new.
I find that the volume control does not influence the startup chime.
I've looked on-line for solutions, it seems others have this same problem. I've tried "zapping the PRAM" to no success.
Keeping an audio plug installed in the headphone jack does not disable the internal speakers from booming the startup chime.
Does anyone have a solution to this please? It seems silly that such an expensive computer should have such an uncorrected problem.
Thank you,
geo

Well, my volume control certainly does influence the start up chime and I cannot see why yours shouldn't. Use keyboard buttons F11 and F12 to adjust your sound level last thing at night and if your machine auto starts in the morning it will not wake the household.
True, if volume control is turned down to a lower level, you would have to adjust it for other sound output that you do want later, iTunes and videos on browsers etc, but it requires little effort.

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Turning off the startup chime?

Anyone knows how to turn off the startup chime? It's a bit embarassing if I start my Mac during classes...

You're welcome anytime.
Please do keep in mind that the startup sound isn't just there to 'annoy'
It's more vital reason for excistence is to inform you when there are problems during startup, like bad RAM or the like.
So once in a while or when not at school, you should enable it again, just to make sure everythings still ok.
Have Fun and thanks for the star.
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Turn off the startup chime

Killing the infernal BONG on my mid 2011 iMac with 10.7 was easy- hit mute before shutting down. If you have something more-or-less permanently plugged in to the audio-out (headphone) port as I do be aware that you must unplug it, wait a sec for the machine to switch to internal speakers and then hit mute to silence the speakers. This setting will "hold" after plugging something back into the headphone port. There is no reason to go to the output pane of sound preferences because there is no "switch" there- just an indicator telling you whether the machine is sending to internal speakers or the headphone port. The switch is made by plugging something into the headphone port.

There is a System Preference pane called Startup Sound that can control the volume level and even mute the startup bong sound. Works on 10.6.8, don't know if it was updated for 10.7 yet or not.
It's not advised to mute it, as if there is a problem with your machine you won't be able to hear the different sound and understand something is wrong with your machine, so just lower it's volume instead.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/16425/startupsound.prefpane

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I tried several applications on my Mac Pro 2.66 and I still get the loud bang at start up.
Psst doesn't work!!!
Start up sound doesn't work as well!!!
Is there something I'm missing out here?
Thank you in advance.

Hi Flocarino!
Have you tried these Startup Chime Stopper
StartupSound.prefPane?
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Why am I not hearing the startup chime?

should I be concerned that the start up chime didn't sound when I turned on my iMac?

If it were set to Mute prior to shutdown, that is
where it remains at the next startup...
So if that doesn't cure it on next boot, to set
the control up or down, or un-mute, post back.
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Wifi sync works just fine.
There is wifi coverage in my driveway.
I plug my iphone to my car in the morning to drive to work.
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I start to drive to work and leave the wifi coverage.
Now itunes displays a error that must be 'OK'ed before sync will work again.
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Ideally this should be user configurable.
Say start after 5 hours connected. (to synk at morning after a long night charge)
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Wifi sync works just fine.
There is wifi coverage in my driveway.
I plug my iphone to my car in the morning to drive to work.
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I start to drive to work and leave the wifi coverage.
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Ideally this should be user configurable.
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When I try to start my MacBook Pro, the screen stays blank - I hear the startup "chime" but nothing else happens.

It's actually my teenage daughter's MacBook, and she's driving me crazy wanting me to fix it... any help would be appreciated.
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- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
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- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
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How to silence the startup sound?

My MacPro emits the startup chord, loundly, from the internal speaker. All other sounds come from the external speakers. When I get home late it's like to wake the dead if I turn on my Mac.
This did not work this way before, the startup sound played through the external speakers and I could turn them down.
Any ideas how to kill the startup sound or make it play through the external speakers?
Thanks.

Well, you know that's a funny thing, because I didn't actually intend to mute the startup chime. I just wanted it routed to the external speakers where I could control the volume properly, like the first poster. But the chime doesn't sound out of my external speakers. I don't hear it at all.
And I don't care. If my Mac fails some test, it isn't going to work right, I'll find out about it anyway. I also don't care because in 20 years of owning Macs, if there was a problem with my Mac I can't remember any of them being due to a failed self test, it was usually a hard disk failure or something on the motherboard while I still got the normal startup chime. The power on self test does not, for example, tell PowerBook G4 owners about the widespread problem that their lower RAM slot has failed. I just haven't found the chime to be useful, while many users find it to be extremely annoying. Apple could just flash the front panel LED differently.
The only time I've ever heard the failed self test tones is when I've played them back from some web page or utility that tells you what they mean.

Muting Startup chime without a 3rd party program

I have a mac os x 10.6.8 before I used to be able to mute the startup chime by muting the sound before shutting down my mac book pro, so the next time I woul start it up it didn't play thr chime. Now when I try to do the same thing/process it won't mute the chime anymore. I was wondering if it could be tha there is a problem with my mac or something else?

Christine_1433, what did they tell you at Apple when you called them? I'm having the same issue. Setting everything on MUTE, plugging in a headphone and again setting Prefs on mute, I still get a LOUD start up chime. I downloaded Start Up Sound. It works if I have Mute checked but there are times I want to the chime to be audible, just now so loud. I use to be able to adjust it before shutdown but nothing works anymore, even resetting the PRAM doesn't help.
Everything listed in the other thread posts here, and then some has already been tried.

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