[G4] Re: Start up Chime

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Tue Oct 9 00:00:08 PDT 2007


On 10/08/07, keith_w <keith_w at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> > Wilson John wrote:
>> Is it possible your internal speaker has stopped working? Do you get
>> system alerts and other sounds?
>
> Yup.
> When I accessed my Mac Tracker application, it played a normal Startup Chime
> sound for me, and the noise could have awakened the dead!
> Yes, the speakers work well...  <g>

Boot into open firmware:  restart, holding down the CMD+OPT+O+F keys until text
starts scrolling down the screen. Type in these commands, one a time, and hit
the return key (the last on restarts the machine, so hold down the C key):

reset-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all


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