Missing boot sound

For some bizzare reason, when I reboot my macbook and it turns on I don't hear that apple "dong" boot sound when the gray screen comes up.
The only real information I can give is that I installed and unstalled windows a ton of time until I got it the way I like.
This problem is really creeping me out, can anyone help?

Ok thanks, the problem might have been that I've got a speaker system hooked up to my mac book and that the internal speakers were muted. I checked this when I unplugged the speakers just now on the Windows side.
Thanks for the help.

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My macbook sounds more agressive than that Mac badboy .
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I think this has been a problem since the beige G3 and an early speaker-equipped Mac display.
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